Support continuous operations for mission-critical workloads with leading performance, flexibility, high availability, and cost effectiveness
Manage growth and reduce operational complexity through consolidation with flexible system logical partitions (LPARs), scalability of up to 512 TB, support for a wide variety of server platforms and advanced management capabilities
Improve the cost structure of operations and lower energy consumption through a tiered storage environment of performance-optimized and capacity-optimized disk drives
Realize greater efficiencies for IBM server environments through features, such as Extended Address Volumes, HyperPAV, Extended Distance FICON®, and Cooperative Caching
Manage the total cost of ownership with enterprise choice warranties of 1, 2, 3 or 4 years on hardware and advanced functions
Virtualized, resilient, high-performance storage for mission-critical workloads
The IBM System Storage™ DS8000™ Turbo series is designed to support the most demanding business applications with its exceptional performance and superior data throughput. This, combined with its world-class resiliency features, make it an ideal storage platform for supporting today’s round-the-clock, global business environment. Moreover, with its tremendous scalability, broad server support and new flexible virtualization capabilities, the DS8000 Turbo can help simplify the storage environment and consolidate multiple storage systems onto a single DS8000 system.
Common features
Hardware summary
High-performance Fibre Channel disk packages containing 16 disks ranging from 73 GB up to 450 GB disk capacities
500 GB FATA disk drive packages for cost-effective second-tier nearline storage
IBM System Storage FlashCopy®, Global Mirror, Metro Mirror, Metro/Global Mirror and Global Copy provide flexible replication services to address your backup and disaster planning needs
IBM System Storage Productivity Center centralizes heterogeneous storage management with an easy-to-use graphical interface
4-port 4 Gbps or 2 Gbps Fibre Channel/FICON®, 2-port IBM ESCON® host adapter interfaces
Offers from 2 to 32 host adapters and up to 128 FC/FICON host ports
FC-AL drive interface
Minimum of 16 drives
Dual SMP processor complexes
Up to 256 GB memory with innovative caching algorithms
From 1.1 TB up to 512 TB of physical capacity, upgradeable without system disruption
