•Extensive upgradability, impressive scalability. The DS4000/DS5000 series is a modular family of disk storage systems that has a common management interface, uses a common drive enclosure, and provides identical functionality across models. Utilizing
The powerful DS5000 was designed for balanced performance capable of handling numerous applications that demand mixed transaction and sequential workloads. As Virtual Machines proliferate, you can add drives to scale I/O performance, throughput and capacity since the DS5000 never becomes controller bound. This impressive scalability feature further enhances your ability to “pay as you grow” in a VMware Infrastructure while maintaining service levels.
•Virtual partitioning,
DS4700, DS4800 and DS5000 disk storage systems support an intermix of high performance Fibre Channel drives and high capacity SATA drives, enabling tiered storage in a single system. Combined with storage partitioning, tiered storage allows storage classes to be created that better match storage characteristics to application requirements. One such example is to use one partition for production data while a second partition is used for backup or data protection purposes. Such storage classes can lower storage costs while meeting application performance requirements. Together, tiered storage and partitioning promote storage consolidation, lower storage costs, and can raise Virtual Machine service levels in a VMware Infrastructure.
•Enhanced availability. Besides typical availability features such as RAID (including RAID 6),
•Dynamic Capacity Expansion allows disk drive expansion units to be added for capacity and performance scaling without impacting Virtual Machines and the applications they host.
•Dynamic RAID Level Migration permits the RAID level of an array group to be changed for performance tuning without interrupting user access to data.
•Dynamic Segment Size
Migration allows the data stripe size of an array group to be changed nondisruptively in order
to further tune performance. The advanced availability features of the DS4000 Series can help raise Virtual Machine service levels in a VMware Infrastructure. They also contribute to “pay as you grow” cost savings.
•Outstanding performance. The
DS4000 and DS5000 series features
No modular storage system performs better in a VMware Infrastructure than the
The DS4000 Series is designed to provide outstanding performance for transaction processing, data streaming and high performance computing.
DS4000 and DS5000 Business Value in a VMware Infrastructure
With IBM System Storage DS4000, you can solve the business challenge of achieving more VMware benefits because you’ll have the right storage solution working for you. The benefits of a DS4000/DS5000 shared storage foundation for VMware are real and significant, as summarized below.
•Achieve Greater Optimization of
Your VMware Infrastructure. Ability to lower overall costs of your VMware storage foundation by (1) consolidating storage through a SAN infrastructure, (2) enabling a “pay as you grow” storage upgrade strategy, (3) leveraging server virtualization with virtual storage systems, and (4) simplifying
