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IBM System Storage DS5000 series

Workload optimized storage for today’s demanding applications

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Feature Benefits
Flexible, replaceable host interfaces
  • Field-replaceable for when your infrastructure changes
  • Enables planning for the future while using current investments
  • Provides unique investment protection and life cycle longevity
Industry-leading performance
  • Supports the most demanding service level agreements (SLAs) and maintains SLAs through growth
  • Well-suited for environments with concurrent workloads such as consolidation and virtualization
Linearly scalable IOPS performance
  • Maintains SLAs through growth
  • Overall IOPS performance increases with each new drive
Balanced performance
  • Equally adept at IOPS and MB/s, the DS5000 series storage system can support applications with wide-ranging performance requirements and the most demanding SLAs
  • Well-suited for data warehousing, consolidation and virtualization environments that have diverse workloads and application requirements
  • Designed to concurrently support transactional applications, such as databases and OLTP, and throughput-intensive applications, such as high-performance computing (HPC) and rich media
Custom XOR engine for RAID parity calculations
  • Efficiently handles compute-intensive parity calculations enabling exceptional disk-based performance that’s ideally suited for RAID 5 and RAID 6 configurations
Support for multiple RAID levels, including RAID 6
  • Designed to support high availability and security for mission-critical data
  • Designed to offer flexibility to configure the system to address varying service levels
Redundant, hot-swappable components
  • Designed to maintain data availability by enabling component replacement without stopping input/output (I/O)
Up to 448 Fibre Channel, SAS, SAS NL, SED, SSD or SATA drives with EXP5000 and up to 480 drives when attaching 8 x EXP5060s
  • Supports the most demanding capacity requirements
  • Can intermix Fibre Channel, SAS, SAS NL and SATA disk drives (EXP5000 only)
  • Support for full disk encryption on select Fibre Channel drives secures data thought the drive’s life cycle
  • Supports low power and high performing Solid State Drives (SSDs)
  • Enables tiered storage in a single system where a Fibre Channel disk is allocated to applications that demand high performance and have high I/O rates, and less-expensive SATA disks are allocated to applications that require less performance. Support for SAS disks enables the T10-PI Data Integrity feature
DS Storage Manager software
  • Feature-rich storage management software enables maximum utilization and uninterrupted data availability
  • Configuration flexibility supports custom logical unit number (LUN) tuning to ensure maximum performance or utilization
  • Centralized management of all local and networked DS Storage Manager-based systems
  • Enables quick storage configuration and monitoring from a centralized interface
  • Configure volumes, perform routine maintenance and add new enclosures and capacity without interrupting access to data
T10-PI Data Integrity
  • Provides data validation assurance: every I/O operation is safeguarded at every step from application to disk
Dynamic expansion capabilities
  • Designed to offer the ability to bring unused storage online for a new host group or an existing volume to provide additional capacity on demand
  • Designed to eliminate application interruptions due to growth, reconfigurations or tuning
Up to 512 partitions
  • Designed to provide enough partitions to effectively support large-scale consolidation or virtualization environments, helping to reduce hardware and storage management costs
Fully-integrated replication features
  • Multiple options enable administrators to meet their replication needs
  • Local or remote copies can be used for file restoration, backups, application testing, data mining or disaster recovery
Support for heterogeneous, open operating systems
  • Supports Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux and Apple Macintosh operating systems designed to enable the DS5000 series storage system to operate in any and all open-system environments

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