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System i offers flexible storage connectivity options to meet today's challenging business and performance requirements through its integrated advanced storage management architecture. Here are some of the highlights for the self-configuring and self-optimizing storage management tasks:
- Balances storage of data dynamically, including data spreading
- Implements optimized RAID-5 and RAID 6, with flexibility to exploit built in system level mirroring for parallel reads/write
- Deploys extensive write cache capabilities, including compression
- Self-optimizes workload I/O through self-caching architecture, further enhanced by Expert Cache
- Provides innovative SAN-like storage management through Virtual I/O to Linux and Windows server environments.
- Incorporates advanced technologies such as Skip Read/Write, Robust Error Recovery, and Longitude Recovery Check (LRC).
- Increases overall disaster recovery and system availability through functions such as journaling, commitment control, Save-While-Active, Disk Migrate While Active, Independent Disk Pools, and Advanced Functions with IBM SAN solutions.
IBM's Content Manager OnDemand for System i builds on the already rich storage management portfolio by offering high performance middleware that capitalizes on IBM hardware. With OnDemand, your System i becomes an archive server for i5OS business applications or applications on other host systems. Some of the many functions offered by this rich middleware are:
- High performance online document capture, storage, and retrieval of computer output.
- Graphical administration tools and powerful indexing capabilities.
- Magnetic, tape, or optical storage to manage i5OS spooled files, data, and Binary Large Objects (BLOBS).
- Advanced optional capabilities include PDF indexing and Web support.
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