Midrange disk storage

IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Storage

• Product details

IBM Storwize V7000 Unified is an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies and exceptional ease of use and performance – all integrated into a compact, modular design that’s offered at a competitive price. Storwize V7000 Unified also allows you to virtualize and reuse existing disk systems, supporting a greater potential return on investment (ROI).

• Capacity: 300 GB min, up to 360 TB max (more with clustered systems)

• Storage Management: IBM Storwize V7000 Unified software
  
  IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center performance management software is an optional add-on to the Storwize V7000 Unified system. Organizations can run reports that clearly identify performance hot spots in the storage system.

• Performance: SAN-attached 8 Gbps Fiber Channel (FC), 1 Gbps iSCSI and optional 10 Gbps iSCSI
  
  NAS-attached 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet

• Solutions: Automated tiering with IBM Easy Tier, internal and external storage virtualization, thin provisioning, unified storage

IBM System Storage® DS5000 series, models DS5100 and DS5300

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DS5000 series storage systems are designed to meet the demanding open-systems requirements of today and tomorrow, while establishing a new standard for life cycle longevity with field-replaceable host interface cards. Seventh-generation architecture delivers relentless performance, real reliability, multidimensional scalability and unprecedented investment protection.

• Capacity: With EXP5000/EXP810: 1.34 PB using all SAS-NL disk drives, 896 TB using all SATA disk drives, 403.2 TB using all Fibre Channel or SAS disk drives and 179.2 TB using all SAS SSD drives
  With EXP5060: 1.44 PB using all SATA disk drives

• Storage Management: DS Storage Manager

• Performance: Up to 700,000 burst cached IOPs and up to 6,400 sustained throughput disk reads

• Solutions: Oracle, SQL, Exchange, VMware, IBM DB2®

IBM System Storage EXP5060 Expansion Unit

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The EXP5060 expansion unit is a 4U drive enclosure that supports up to 60 SATA drives and provide capacity-intensive environments with tremendous storage density and significant operational savings

• Capacity: Up to 180 TB using 3 TB SATA drives

IBM System Storage DS5020 Express

• Product details (US)

In a continuing effort to provide storage solutions that are designed to provide low total cost of ownership, high performance, robust functionality and unparalleled ease of use, IBM offers the IBM® System Storage® DS5020 Express®. As part of the IBM DS series, the DS5020 Express offers high-performance 8 Gbps-capable Fibre Channel connections, optional 1 Gbps iSCSI interface for less demanding applications and lower cost implementation, up to 336 TB of SAS-NL physical storage capacity, up to100.8 TB of SAS physical storage capacity, up to 44.8 TB of SSD physical storage capacity, and powerful system management, data management and data protection features. The DS5020 Express is designed to expand from workgroup to enterprise-wide capability with up to six Fibre Channel expansion units with the EXP520 Expansion Unit.

• Physical storage capacity: 336 TB SAS-NL, 100.8 TB SAS, 44.8 TB SSD

• Cache: Up to 4 GB

• Host ports: 8 – 8 Gbps Fibre Channel or 4 – 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and 4 – 1 Gbps iSCSI

• Disk ports: 4 – 4 Gbps Fibre Channel

IBM System Storage DCS3700

• Product details

The IBM System Storage® DCS3700 is designed to meet the storage needs of highly scalable, data streaming applications in high performance computing environments.

• Cost: Contact IBM

• Ease of use: The IBM DS Storage Manager provides a powerful, yet easy-to-use and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) for DCS3700 administrative activities. This includes configuration, reconfiguration, expansion and routine maintenance, as well as performance tuning and management of advanced functions.

• Performance: With unrelenting throughput and IOPs, the DCS3700 can offer up to 4,000 Mbps in sustained drive reads which is well-suited for high performance streaming applications.