| 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
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| 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
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| Linearly scalable IOPS performance |
- Maintains SLAs through growth
- Overall IOPS performance increases with each new drive
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| Redundant, hot-swappable components |
- Designed to maintain data availability by enabling component replacement without stopping input/output (I/O)
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| 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
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| 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
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| T10-PI Data Integrity |
- Provides data validation assurance: every I/O operation is safeguarded at every step from application to disk
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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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