New seventh-generation architecture with extreme and balanced performance for increased application performance
“Pay-as-you-grow” scalability up to 448 drives for DS5100 and the DS5300 for the most demanding capacity requirements utilizing the EXP5000 expansion enclosure
Up to 700,000 IOPs and 6,400 MBps
Next-generation 8 Gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces enable infrastructure simplification
Mixed host interfaces support (FC/SCSI over IP (iSCSI)) enables Storage Area Network (SAN) tiering
Balanced performance well-suited for virtualization/consolidation
Support for intermixing FC/Full Disk Encryption (FDE)/Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) and SSD drives enables cost effective tiered storage
Feature-rich management software that maximizes utilization and minimizes storage total cost of ownership (TCO)
Designed to support future product enhancements
Centrally manage the DS series with the IBM System Storage DS® Storage Manager
Host interface cards designed to provide investment protection and life cycle longevity now with 4 Gbps, 8 Gbps FC or optional 1 Gbps iSCSI connectivity to improve efficiency and lower costs
Designed to support high availability with dual active, hot-swappable controllers, power supplies and many non-disruptive firmware upgrades
Heterogeneous support for the most common operating systems, including Microsoft® Windows®, UNIX® and Linux®
Real-world performance that’s designed to meet the diverse and aggregate workloads created by consolidation/virtualization
New high density EXP5060 enclosure supporting 60 - 1 TB SATA drives in 4U package
The IBM System Storage™ DS5000 series storage system is designed to meet today’s and tomorrow’s demanding open-systems requirements while establishing a new standard for life cycle longevity. Building on many decades of design expertise, the DS5000 series’ seventh-generation architecture delivers industry-leading performance, real reliability, multi-dimensional scalability and unprecedented investment protection.
The DS5000 series is equally adept at supporting transactional applications such as databases and OLTP, throughput-intensive applications such as HPC and rich media, and concurrent workloads for consolidation and virtualization. With its relentless performance and superior reliability and availability, the DS5000 series storage system can support the most demanding service level agreements (SLAs). And when requirements change, you can add or replace host interfaces, grow capacity, add cache and reconfigure the system on the fly—ensuring that it will keep pace with your growing company.
This multi-dimensional scalability enables the DS5000 series storage system to extend beyond the normal three- to four-year life cycle, protecting your storage investment by delaying (or even eliminating) the expense of migrating data to a new system and allowing you to amortize acquisition costs over extended periods of time. This life cycle longevity enables the DS5000 series to continue delivering value long after other systems have been retired. The DS5000 series’ drive-level encryption offers affordable data security with no performance penalty. And the DS5000 series’ multiple replication options, drive level encryption, and persistent cache backup can help ensure that any data in cache is captured and safe in the event of a power outage.
Common features
Hardware summary
Efficient, compact 4U packaging designed for 19" rack
“Pay-as-you-grow” designed to support non-disruptive growth
Easy-to-use, easy-to-configure management interface able to manage DS3000 and DS4000® series
Concurrent hardware upgrades and firmware loads support high availability design
Connectivity to IBM SAN switches, directors and routers
Heterogeneous support for the most common operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux
Next-generation enterprise controller technology
Field-replaceable host interface cards (HIC)—two per controller
Current release supports 4, 8 Gbps FC HICs or 1 Gbps iSCSI (sixteen total host ports)
Sixteen 4 Gb/s FC drive interfaces support up to 448 FC/SATA drives
Up to a total of 64 GB cache
Options include 4, 8, 16, 32 GB of cache per controller
Dedicated cache mirroring channels
Persistent cache backup in the event of a power outage
Field-upgradeable
Support for RAID 6, 5, 3, 10, 1, 0
Two performance levels (base: DS5100 and high: DS5300) with ability to field-upgrade performance levels
