Mid-range disk storage

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 virtualise and reuse existing disk systems, supporting a greater potential return on investment (ROI)

• Capacity300 gigabytes (GB) min, up to 360 terabytes (TB) max (more with clustered systems)
  
• Storage ManagementIBM Storwize V7000 Unified software
  
  IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Centre performance management software is an optional add-on to the Storwize V7000 Unified system. Organisations can run reports that clearly identify performance hot spots in the storage system
  
• PerformanceStorage area network (SAN) attached 8 gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel (FC), 1 Gbps Internet small computer system interface (iSCSI) and optional 10 Gbps iSCSI
  
  Network attached storage (NAS) attached 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet (GbE)
  
• SolutionsAutomated tiering with IBM Easy Tier, internal and external storage
  virtualisation, thin provisioning, unified storage
  

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® DS3950 Express®. As part of the DS series, the DS3950 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 100.8 TB of SAS physical storage capacity, up to 224 TB of SATA physical storage capacity, and powerful system management, data management and data protection features. The DS3950 Express is designed to expand from workgroup to enterprise-wide capability with up to six Fibre Channel expansion units with the EXP395 Expansion Unit

• Physical storage capacity224 TB with 2 TB SATA disk or 100.8 TB with 900 GB SAS
  
• CacheUp to 4 GB
  
• Host ports4 - 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (Model 94H) or 4 - 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and 4 - 1 Gbps iSCSI (Model 98H)
  
• Disk ports4 - 4 Gbps Fibre Channel
  

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.

• CapacityWith 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 8 TB using all SAS SSD drives
  
  With EXP5060: 1.44 PB using all SATA disk drives
  
• Storage ManagementDS Storage Manager
  
• PerformanceUp to 700,000 burst cached IOPs and up to 6,400 sustained throughput disk reads
  
• SolutionsOracle, SQL, Exchange, VMware, IBM DB2®
  

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 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 capacity336 TB SAS-NL, 100.8 TB SAS, 8 TB SSD
  
• CacheUp to 4 GB
  
• Host ports8 – 8 Gbps Fibre Channel or 4 – 8 Gbps Fibre Channel and 4 – 1 Gbps iSCSI
  
• Disk ports4 – 4 Gbps Fibre Channel
  

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

• CostContact IBM
  
• Ease of useThe 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.
  
• PerformanceWith unrelenting throughput and IOPs, the DCS3700 can offer up to 4,000 MB/s in sustained drive reads which is well-suited for high performance streaming applications
  

IBM DCS9900 Storage System offers storage for Deep Computing, System p High Performance Computing (HPC) and System x 1350 Linux Cluster systems for data streaming, rich media, life sciences and government research applications.

• Disk ports8 – 4Gbps Fibre Channel
  
• Host ports8 – 4Gbps Fibre Channel
  
• Physical storage capacity67.2TB Fibre Channel/168TB of Serial ATA (SATA)
  
• CacheUp to 16GB
  

The IBM System Storage EXP3000 is a high-density 2U, 19” rack-mountable driven closure designed for supporting a total of 12 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 3.5-inch disk drives.

The dual-port MegaRAID 8480 adapter is optimised for cost-sensitive and space-limited environments that demand both feature-rich and high-performance solutions. The adapter delivers an intelligent and robust RAID solution supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, and 50, and utilising a high-performance Intel I/O processor for optimum RAID performance and a PCI-Express host interface for increased bandwidth.

Together, the EXP3000 and MegaRAID 8480 leverage leading Serial-attached SCSI (SAS), the new interface technology with broad industry commitment and interoperability behind it. A maximum of four EXP3000s can be cascaded from the MegaRAID 8480 adapter to support a total of 48 disks while simultaneously improving performance of the configuration due to higher number of disks.

• IBM System Storage EXP3000 FeaturesSAS 10,000-rpm capacities 73GB, 146GB, 300GB
  SAS 15,000-rpm capacities 36GB, 73GB, 146GB
  Point-to-point architecture
  Customer replaceable components
  Two SAS 4x connections at the rear of the board for external connections
  Single ESM
  
• MegaRAID 8480 featuresRAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50
  64 logical drive support
  Online capacity expansion
  RAID level migration (RLM)
  Configuration on disk (COD)
  Patrol read & S.M.A.R.T. support
  MegaRAID Manager GUI included with MegaRAID 8480
  

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

• CapacityUp to 180 TB using 3 TB SATA drives