Achieve up to 1550 MBps bandwidth for high throughput applications
SATA-only hard disk drives supported
Centrally manage your storage series with IBM System Storage™ DS4000™ Storage Manager
Increase connectivity with four host channels with dual controllers
Advanced high-performance interface technology
The IBM System Storage DS4200 disk storage system supports a high-performance 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interface. Increased host connectivity delivers the necessary bandwidth for high throughput applications. Data-intensive applications that demand increased connectivity are supported by four 4 Gbps host channels that can provide up to 1550 MBps of sustained bandwidth, allowing for high throughput applications through the four channels directly attached to the host servers or connected to a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN).
A lower total cost of ownership
Take advantage of high-performance with the DS4200 disk storage system. The IBM DS4200 can offer up to 1550 MBps throughput with up to 121,500 IOPS (input/output per second) from cache. A 4 Gbps storage array requires as few as half the number of ports compared to a 2 Gbps storage array to deliver equal throughput. This frees up ports in the SAN for each array.
On the host side, if a server requires more than the minimum of two 2 Gbps host bus adapters (HBAs) for availability to attain the required performance, then that number can be halved with 4 Gbps. Fewer HBAs help lower the number of switch ports used.
Common features
Hardware summary
Dynamic Capacity Expansion (DCE)
System Storage DS4000 Storage Manager software
Ability to mix FC and SATA disk attachment units
IBM FlashCopy® to take point-in-time copies of logical volumes
Dynamic Volume Expansion
VolumeCopy feature is designed to provide full replication of one logical volume to another
Enhanced Remote Mirror to multi-LUN applications
Share a common pool of hot-spare disk drives among multiple DS4200 systems
Up to 2 GB cache battery-backed
4 host ports and 4 drive ports-Fibre Channel (FC) Switched and FC Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) standard, Host auto-sensing 1 Gbps/2 Gbps/4 Gbps, Drive auto-sensing 4Gbps
Supports SATA 7,200 rpm 500 GB/ 750 GB and 1 TB
RAID level 0, 1, 3, 5, 6 and 10 support
Up to 128 storage partitions
112 SATA drives (using 6 DS4000 EXP420 Expansion Units)
Dual redundant, hot-swappable cooling fans
19-inch, industry-standard rack
*128 partitions are planned to be available February 8, 2007
