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IBM System Storage DS8000 Turbo

High-performance disk storage for business-critical enterprise workloads

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Feature Benefits
Dual Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) IBM POWER® processor complexes
  • Reduces cycle times and accelerates response times for faster access to data
High-capacity cache with innovative caching algorithms
  • Helps optimise the current workload with dynamically self-tuning cache usage
I/O Priority Manager
  • Enables more effective storage consolidation and application service management by assigning quality-of-service levels to separate workloads in the system
Internal Fibre Channel interconnect
  • Boosts performance for improved all-around throughput
Drive options include traditional spinning drives of varying rotational speeds and ultra fast solid-state drives (SSDs)
  • Helps support tiered storage environments and consolidation of multiple storage systems onto single DS8000 system
IBM System Storage Easy Tier
  • Monitors data throughput and automates placement of data across the appropriate drive tiers to optimise current workload requirements
IBM DS8000 Storage Tier Advisor
  • Provides an easy-to-use tool that can help determine which volumes are likely candidates for Easy Tier optimisation by analysing the performance of their current application workloads
Scalable from 5 TB up to over 2,300 TB of physical capacity, upgradeable without system disruption
  • Enables capacity upgrades to address the dynamic needs of your business
  • Increases capacity while avoiding business disruption
Thin Provisioning
  • Reduces storage administration costs by automating process of capacity provisioning
IBM Full Disk Encryption drives
  • Protects sensitive information from internal and external threats
Support for IBM deduplication technology
  • Helps substantially decrease the capacity needed to perform disk-to-disk backups and helps enable additional storage consolidation
IBM server synergy
  • Helps improve performance and efficiency for IBM System z® environments and features with advanced support for High Performance FICON® for System z, z/OS® Metro/Global Mirror Incremental Resync, Parallel Access Volumes (PAV), HyperPAV, z/OS Global Mirror Multiple Reader, Extended Address Volumes, Extended Distance FICON, z/OS Basic HyperSwap®, IBM GDPS® HyperSwap, and support for IBM System z MIDAW facility
  • Cooperative Caching feature helps improve performance and efficiency for higher-priority IBM DB2® applications running on IBM Power Systems with the IBM AIX® operating system
  • Provides outstanding support for IBM Power i systems
IBM FlashCopy
  • Helps ensure data recovery in the event of source data loss with point-in-time data copies for backup or replication
  • Enables data to be copied in the background while making both source and copied data available to users almost immediately
IBM FlashCopy SE
  • Provides a space-efficient snapshot capability that can greatly reduce the storage capacity needed for point-in-time copies
IBM Tivoli® Storage FlashCopy Manager
  • Provides application-aware FlashCopy for popular enterprise applications
IBM Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, Metro/Global Mirror, z/OS Metro/Global Mirror and Global Copy
  • Creates duplicate copies of data at remote sites
  • Provides flexible options to support multiple two-site and three-site business continuity scenarios
  • Provides users access to data during planned and unplanned system and site outages
Support for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPV6) and U.S. Government (USGv6) standards profile IPv6
  • Provides next-generation Internet protocol with increased security, addressing space, and routing performance and services

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DS8000

Designed to deliver a generation-skipping leap in performance