| IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager |
- Full-time storage administrators achieve complete control over their storage configuration, and part-time users have an intuitive and simple interface
- Centralized management of all local and networked IBM System Storage DS5000, IBM System Storage DS4000 and DS3500 Express storage systems—means increased management efficiencies and a reduced learning curve with simple management
- Investment protection with optional Disaster Recovery option delivering enhanced remote mirroring support across Fibre Channel or IP host interfaces
- Auto Support feature allows centralized collection and reporting of key operational statistics for ongoing trend analysis and product improvement
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| Host interface intermix |
- Support for intermixing SAS and Fibre Channel or SAS and iSCSI interfaces enables cost-effective SAN tiering and consolidation
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| Balanced performance |
- Equally adept at IOPS and megabytes per second, DS3500 Express supports applications with wide-ranging performance requirements
- Well suited for consolidation and virtualization environments that have diverse workloads and application requirements
- Designed to support transactional applications and throughput-intensive applications concurrently
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| Data protection |
- Dynamic Disk Pooling (DDP) offers simplified installation, greater data protection and more consistent performance than traditional RAID options
- RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6 and 10 give you the flexibility to choose the level of protection required
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| Thin provisioning with DDP |
- Thin provisioning is designed to manage storage space and avoid unused resources
- No more unnecessary storage expenses: thin provisioning can help save storage capacity, no longer requiring users to purchase all storage up front for each request
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| IP replication |
- Provides mirroring over Ethernet to replicate data for disaster recovery on storage via inexpensive link
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| Complete testing and integration |
- With its simple, efficient and flexible approach to storage, DS3500 Express is a cost-effective, fully integrated complement to System x, BladeCenter and Power Systems servers
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| Support for SED drives |
- Comprehensive protection for data-at-rest ensures data is secured throughout the drive’s lifecycle without sacrificing performance or ease of use
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| T10-PI data integrity |
- Helps assure customers with ultra-sensitivity to data validation that every I/O is protected every step of the way, from application to disk
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| Scalability up to 192 drives |
- Provides the flexibility to grow with your data needs
- Not locked into high-quantity drive purchase at initial purchase
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| Support for drive intermix |
- Ability to intermix high-performance SAS, nearline SAS, SAS, SSDs and SED drives enables tiered storage
- Cost-effectively supports an organization’s complete range of data capacity requirements—from nearline to highly used applications—with support for mixed drive types within a single storage system
- Enclosure-based intermixing maximizes efficiency
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| Nearline SAS drives support |
- Nearline SAS drives significantly outperform SATA and do so with greater reliability, for a comparable price
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| 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drive support |
- Additional drive flexibility supports both high performance and great IOPS/Watt requirements
- Tray-level drive intermix cost-effectively meets all application, rack and energy-efficiency requirements within a single storage system
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| SSD support |
- The SSDs supported by DS3500 Express can be used to improve application performance while simultaneously reducing power and cooling requirements
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| Superior disk utilization use |
- Achieve great performance with fewer drives
- Lower drive investment and reduce heat dissipation
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| Support for greater than 2 TB of logical unit numbers |
- Maximizes capacity use for applications that need to move large amounts of data with maximum throughput performance
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| Built-in efficiencies |
- Modular design avoids over-configuration for an affordable entry point while offering seamless “pay-as-you-grow” scalability as requirements change
- Efficient utilization lowers raw-capacity requirement, and support for intermixing drives enables tiered storage
- Exceptional per-drive performance creates strategic value by delivering the most performance out of the fewest drives
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| DS3500 Express DC model |
- Meets the standard -48 V DC requirements of telecommunications and related industries
- A NEBS/ETSI-compliant storage system provides assurance of resiliency in the most intense and harsh environments
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| Redundant, hot-swappable components |
- Fully redundant components, automated I/O path failover and online administration that create “always-on” availability to ensure data is always accessible
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| Optional premium features |
Simplifies ordering of software features:
- Disaster Recovery option provides 16 Enhanced Remote Mirrors and 32 Enhanced Global Mirrors; offering multiple options for disaster-recovery deployment, this feature supports replication over Fibre Channel or IP
- Backup and Restore option allows 512 Enhanced FlashCopy images on the DS3500 system; IBM Enhanced FlashCopy technology delivers easier setup of shared vs. dedicated repositories and reduced capacity requirements and copy-on-write capacity consumption
- Performance Read Cache option utilizes SSDs as a level-two data cache, significantly improving read performance off of spinning media; Performance Read Cache is extremely easy to set up and, once implemented, automatically identifies the data that is read most frequently and copies it into cache for fast access
- Super Key option combines all of the above features into one single key for easy deployment and management of these features
- Turbo Performance option key provides up to a two times performance boost to the system
- Drive Expansion option enables attachment of drives over 96 drive base offering to 192 drives
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| Online firmware upgrades |
- Firmware upgrades can occur while data accessibility continues in dual controller configurations
- Organizational productivity and customer satisfaction is assured with data available 24×7
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