IBM manual DS8000 Base frame

The DS8000 is a flexible and extendable disk storage subsystem because it is designed to add and adapt to new technologies as they become available.

In the entirely new packaging there are also new management tools, like the DS Storage Manager and the DS Command-Line Interface (CLI), which allow for the management and configuration of the DS8000 series as well as the DS6000 series.

The DS8000 series is designed for 24x7 environments in terms of availability while still providing the industry leading remote mirror and copy functions to ensure business continuity.

Figure 1-1 DS8000 - Base frame

The IBM TotalStorage DS8000 highlights include that it:

￿Delivers robust, flexible, and cost-effective disk storage for mission-critical workloads

￿Helps to ensure exceptionally high system availability for continuous operations

￿Scales to 192 TB and facilitates unprecedented asset protection with model-to-model field upgrades

￿Supports storage sharing and consolidation for a wide variety of operating systems and mixed server environments

￿Helps increase storage administration productivity with centralized and simplified management

￿Provides the creation of multiple storage system LPARs, that can be used for completely separate production, test, or other unique storage environments

￿Occupies 20 percent less floor space than the ESS Model 800's base frame, and holds even more capacity

￿Provides the industry’s first four year warranty

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