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IBM System Storage DS3500 Express

Affordable performance and flexibility without sacrificing scalability, efficiency or ease of use

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Feature Benefits
Host interface intermix
  • Support for intermixing SAS and Fibre Channel or SAS and iSCSI interfaces allows for cost-effective SAN tiering and consolidation
Balanced performance
  • Equally adept at IOPS and MB/s, the DS3500 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
Complete testing and integration with IBM® System x®, IBM BladeCenter® and IBM Power Systems™ servers
  • With its simple, efficient and flexible approach to storage, the DS3500 is a cost-effective, fully integrated complement to System x, BladeCenter and Power Systems servers.
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
Scalability up to 192 drives
  • “Start small, grow big” provides the flexibility to grow with your data needs
  • Not locked into high-quantity drive purchase at initial purchase
Support for drive intermix
  • Ability to intermix high-performance SAS, near-line SAS, SAS, SSD and SED drives enables tiered storage
  • Cost-effectively support an organization’s complete range of data capacity requirements—from near-line to highly used applications—with support for mixed drive types within a single storage system
  • Enclosure-based intermixing maximizes efficiency
Near-line SAS drives support
  • Near-line SAS drives are also the clear replacement of SATA drives; competitively priced to SATA drives, near-line SAS drives significantly outperform SATA and do so with greater reliability, for a comparable price
2.5-in and 3.5-in 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
Solid State Drives (SSDs) support
  • The solid state drives (SSDs) supported by the DS3500 Express can be used to improve application performance while simultaneously reducing power and cooling requirements
Superior disk utilization use
  • Achieve great performance with fewer drives
  • Lower drive investment and reduced heat dissipation
Support for greater than 2 TB LUNs
  • Maximizes capacity utilizations use for applications that need to move large amounts of data with maximum throughput performance
Fully configured RAID 0 and 10 Volume Groups
  • Ideal for very large databases or file systems, or those wishing to utilize use more than 30 drives per volume to maximize performance
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 use lowers raw capacity requirement and support for intermixing drives enables tiered storage
  • Exceptional per-drive performance creates performance value by getting the most performance out of the fewest drives
DS3500 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
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 DS5000, DS4000® and DS3500 storage systems—means increased management efficiencies and a reduced learning curve with single management
  • Investment protection with enhanced remote mirroring support across FC host interfaces
Dynamic software capabilities
  • Enhanced functionality with the ability to expand capacity, volume size, segment size, volume groups and migrate RAID levels with no data I/O interruption
  • Simply adjust to changes in application, availability, or performance requirements without interruption
  • Configure volumes, perform routine maintenance and add new enclosures and capacity without interrupting access to data
Up to 128 partitions supported
  • Enough partitions to effectively support medium-scale consolidation or virtualization environments, thus helping to reduce hardware and storage management costs
Online firmware upgrades
  • Firmware upgrades can occur with continued data accessibility continues in dual controller configurations
  • Organizational productivity and customer satisfaction is assured with data available 24×7×365
  • Up to 256 FlashCopy images per storage system and eight per volume support granular backup and recovery
  • Multiple options allows administrators to best fit their replication needs
  • Local or remote copies—across the Fibre Channel interface—can be used for file restoration, backups, application testing, data mining or disaster recovery

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