IBM System Storage DS8000 series

High performance and superior reliability for the most demanding storage environments

Feature Benefits
Dual SMP IBM POWER® processor complexes
  • Reduces cycle times and accelerates response times for faster access to data
High-capacity cache with innovative caching algorithms
  • Helps optimize real-time workload requirements with dynamically self-tuning cache usage
I/O Priority Manager QoS manager
  • Enables more effective storage consolidation and application service management by assigning system resources to separate workloads dynamically
Internal Fibre Channel interconnect
  • Boosts performance for improved all-around throughput
Drive options including traditional spinning drives of varying rotational speeds and ultra-fast SSDs
  • Helps support tiered storage environments and consolidation of multiple storage systems onto a single DS8000 system
IBM System Storage Easy Tier
  • Monitors data throughput and automates placement of data across the appropriate drive tiers to optimize current workload requirements
IBM DS8000 Storage Tier Advisor
  • Provides an easy-to-use tool that can help determine which volumes are likely candidates for Easy Tier optimization by analyzing the performance of their current application workloads
Scalable from 5 TB up to more than 2,300 TB of physical capacity, upgradeable without system disruption
  • Enables capacity upgrades to address the dynamic needs of your business
  • Increases capacity while avoiding business disruption
Thin provisioning
  • Reduces storage administration costs by automating process of capacity provisioning
Full disk encryption (FDE) drives
  • Protects sensitive information from internal and external threats
  • Are now standard; and by working with IBM Tivoli® Key Lifecycle Manager, can help to protect against the growing threat of data-at-rest security breaches that can lead to expensive fines and remediation costs
Efficient management of cloud storage
  • Enables organizations to build a strong cloud storage foundation with IBM System Storage DS8000 and the IBM SmartCloud™ Virtual Storage Center solution, which includes IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
Support for IBM deduplication technology
  • Helps substantially decrease the capacity needed to perform disk-to-disk backups and helps enable additional storage consolidation
IBM server synergy
  • Helps improve performance and efficiency for IBM System z® environments and features with advanced support for High Performance FICON for System z, IBM z/OS® Metro/Global Mirror Incremental Resync, parallel access volumes, HyperPAV, z/OS Global Mirror Multiple Reader, Extended Address Volumes, Extended Distance FICON, z/OS Basic IBM HyperSwap®, IBM GDPS® HyperSwap and support for System z Modified Indirect Data Address Word facility, IBM FlashCopy® SE, z/OS Global Mirror, z/OS Distributed Data Backup, and z/OS Discovery and Auto Configuration for FICON channels
  • Cooperative Caching feature helps improve performance and efficiency for higher-priority IBM DB2® applications running on IBM Power Systems with the IBM AIX® operating system
  • Provides outstanding support for IBM i for Power Systems
IBM FlashCopy
  • Helps ensure data recovery in the event of source data loss with point-in-time data copies for backup or replication
  • Enables data to be copied in the background while making both source and copied data available to users almost immediately
IBM FlashCopy SE
  • Provides a space-efficient snapshot capability that can greatly reduce the storage capacity needed for point-in-time copies
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
  • Provides application-aware FlashCopy and remote mirroring for popular enterprise applications
IBM Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, Metro/Global Mirror, z/OS Metro/Global Mirror and Global Copy
  • Creates duplicate copies of data at remote sites
  • Provides flexible options to support multiple two-site and three-site business continuity scenarios
  • Provides users access to data during planned and unplanned system and site outages
Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and US Government standards profile IPv6
  • Provides next-generation Internet protocol with increased security, addressing space and routing performance and services

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