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Disk Storage Systems (continued)/IBM System Storage N seriesIBM System Storage N series—Unified Storage Systems
N5000 Gateway series N7000 Gateway series
N5200 N5300 N5600 N7700 N7900
Model 2864-G10 (single)
2864-G20 (clustered)
2869-G10 (single)
2869-G20 (clustered)
2868-G10 (single)
2868-G20 (clustered)
2866-G11 (single)
2866-G21 (clustered)
2867-G11 (single)
2867-G21 (clustered)
Maximum raw capacity 84TB 336TB 504 TB 840TB 1176 TB
Onboard I/O ports* Eight 2 Gbps FC
Eight 1 Gbps Ethernet
Eight 4Gbps FC
Eight 1Gbps Ethernet
Eight 4 Gbps FC
Eight 1 Gbps Ethernet
Sixteen 4 Gbps FC
Twelve 1 Gbps Ethernet
Sixteen 4 Gbps FC
Twelve 1 Gbps Ethernet
PCI expansion slots for
additional FC HBAs or GbE
NIC cards*
66 6 16 16
Performance* 34,089 IO/sec 58,906 IO/sec 85,615 IO/sec 100,295 IO/sec 136,048 IO/sec
NVRAM* 1GB 1GB 1GB 1GB 1GB
Random Access Memory* 4 GB 8GB 16GB 32GB 64GB
N series Highlights
●Unified storage architecture—provides a single storage platform to support heteroge-
neous,multiprotocol storage requirements with the capability of simultaneously handling
both Block I/O (with FCP or iSCSI protocol) and File I/O (with CIFS,NFS, HTTP,FTP protocols)
application needs
●Application-aware software—SnapManager software provides host-based data manage-
ment of N series storage for databases and business applications.Simplifies application-
consistent policy-based automation for data protection and disaster recover.Snapshot
copies and automates error-free data restores and enables application-aware disaster
recovery
●Thin Provisioning—allows applications and users to get more space dynamically and non-
disruptively without IT staff intervention
●Ease of installation—offers installation tools designed to help simplify installation and
setup
●Increased access—allows heterogeneous access to IP attached storage and Fibre Channel
attached storage subsystems
●Operating system—optimized and finely tuned for storing and sharing data assets,
designing to enable greater efficiency within your organization and help lower total cost of
ownership through improved efficiency and productivity
●Flexibility—enables cross-platform data access for Microsoft Windows,UNIX and Linux
environments that can help reduce network complexity and expense,and allow data to be
shared across the organization
●Network Attached Storage (NAS)—supports Network File System (NFS),Common
Internet File System (CIFS) protocols for attachment to Microsoft Windows,UNIX and Linux
systems
●IP SAN—supports Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) protocols for IP SAN
attached to a multitude of host servers including Microsoft Windows,Linux, and UNIX
systems
●FC SAN—supports Fibre Channel protocols (FCP) for accommodating attachment and
participation in fibre channel SAN environments
●Scalability—supports non-disruptive capacity increases as well as thin-provisioning
(dynamically allow the increase and decrease of user capacity assignments).Allows you to
scale your storage infrastructure to keep pace with company growth
●Designed to maintain availabilityand productivity during upgrades
●Manageability—includes integrated system diagnostics and management tools,which are
designed to help minimize downtime
●Redundancy—several redundancy and hot-swappable features provide the highest system
availability characteristics
●Copy Services—provides extensive outboard services that help recover data in disaster
recovery environments.SnapMirror provides one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-one
mirroring over Fibre Channel or IP infrastructures
●NearStore (near-line) feature—SATA drive technology enables online and quick access to
archived and non-intensive transactional data
●Advanced Single Instance Storage (A-SIS)—provides block-level deduplication of data
stored in NearStore volumes
●Compliance and data retention—software and hardware features that offer non-erasable
and non-rewritable data protection to meet the industry’s highest regulatory requirements
for retaining company data assets
NOTES:
*Systems are based on dual clustered storage controllers.Divide all numbers by one-half if a single
storage controller system is ordered.
A single controller can be easily upgraded to a dual controller system as your computing needs increase.
The dual controller is a fully redundant system and is designed to provide failover and failback
capabilities.
The N series Interoperability Matrix can be found at the following Web site:
ibm.com/storage/network/interophome.html
The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetApp Inc.; Data ONTAP,FlexCache,
FlexScale,FlexVol, FilerView, Protection Manager,SecureAdmin, RAID-DP,SecureAdmin, FlexClone,
MultiStore,SnapLock, LockVault, Snapshot, SnapDrive, SnapMirror, SnapMover, SnapRestore, SnapVault,
SnapManager,SnapValidator,SyncMirror, FlexShare, NearStore, Virtual File Manager
All N series Gateway systems provide the following features:
Storage controllers/filers Active/Active with automatic failover to secondary system
Host connectivity &
platform support
The N series systems support a multitude of host attachment capabilities via FCP,CIFS, NFS and iSCSI protocols.See product “N series Interoperability Matrix” for
more information
Network protocol support NFS V2/V3/V4 over UDP or TCP,PCNFSD V1/V2 for (PC) NFS client authentication, Microsoft CIFS, iSCSI, FCP,VLD, HTTP 1.0, HTTP 1.1 Virtual Host
Other protocol support SNMP,NDMP,LDAP,NIS, DNS
Operating system Data ONTAP
Data protection Snapshot, SnapRestore,SnapMirror, SyncMirror, SnapVault,Open System Snap Vault, MetroCluster, Protection Manager
Redundancy/
high availability
CompactFlash dual redundant hot-plug integrated cooling fans,hot-swappable auto-ranging power supplies, clustered filers, hot-swappable disk bays
Backup External tape (SCSI or Fibre Channel)
RAID levels Provided by backend storage system
System management/
Storage management
FilerView,SecureAdmin, SNMP,Operations Manager/Industry-standard NDMP protocols
Standard software
features
Snapshot,FlexVol, FlexShare, Integrated Automatic RAID Manager,Fast Boot, NIS, DNS, SNMP,FilerView, NDMP,LDAP,iSCSI, AutoSupport, SyncMirror,SnapMover, FTP
protocol feature,SecureAdmin
Optional software
features
CIFS protocol,Clustered Failover, Data ONTAP,Disk Sanitization. FCP protocol,FlexCache, FlexClone, FlexShare, FlexScale, FlexVol, FTP protocol,HTTP protocol, iSCSI
protocol,LockVault Enterprise, MetroCluster,MultiStore, NDMP protocol, NearStore (near-line), NFS protocol, Open Systems SnapVault (OSSV), Operations Manager
Core & SRM License,Protection Manager, Provisioning Manager,SecureAdmin, Single Mailbox Recovery for Exchange (SMBR), SnapDrive, SnapLock Enterprise,
SnapManager for Exchange,SnapManager for Oracle, SnapManager for SAP
SnapManager for SQL Server,SnapManager for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, SnapMirror,SnapMover, SnapRestore, Snapshot, SnapValidator,SnapVault,
SyncMirror,Virtual File Manager (VFM)