5.1 DS6000 highlights

The DS6000 is a member of the DS product family that offers high reliability and enterprise class performance for mid-range storage solutions with the DS6800 model 1750-511.

It is built upon 2 Gbps fibre technology and offers:

￿RAID protected storage

￿Advanced functionality

￿Extensive scalability

￿Increased addressing capabilities

￿The ability to connect to all relevant host server platforms

5.1.1DS6800 Model 1750-511

The 1750-511 model contains control unit functions as well as a rich set of advanced functions, and holds up to 16 disk drive modules (DDMs). It provides a minimum capacity of 584 GB with 8 DDMs and 73 GB per DDM.

As of this writing, the maximum storage capacity with 300 GB DDMs is 4.8 TB with 16 DDMs in a 1750-511 model.

It measures 5.25 inches high and is available in a 19 inch rack-mountable package.

Figure 5-1 DS6800 Model 1750-511 and Model 1750-EX1 front view

The 1750-511 model offers the following features:

￿Two Fibre Channel control cards.

￿PowerPC 750GX 1 GHz processors.

￿Dual active controllers to provide continuous operations and back up the other controller in case of controller maintenance or an unplanned outage of a controller.

￿4 GB of cache.

￿Battery backed mirrored cache.

￿Two battery backup units - one per controller card.

￿Two AC/DC power supplies with imbedded enclosure cooling units.

￿Disk subsystem connectivity with eight 2 Gbps device ports.

￿Selection of 2 Gbps Fibre Channel disk drives including 73 GB, 146 GB, and 300 GB DDM size with speeds currently of 10K RPM or 15K RPM.

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IBM DS6000 Series manual DS6000 highlights, 1 DS6800 Model