Support continuous operations for cross-platform, mission-critical workloads with leading performance, flexibility, high availability, security, and cost effectiveness
Manage growth and reduce operational complexity through consolidation with high-performance solid-state drives, high-capacity Serial ATA (SATA) drives, support for advanced IBM de-duplication technology, flexible system logical partitions (LPARs), and advanced management capabilities
Protect sensitive information from internal and external threats with innovative self-encrypting disk drives
Realize greater efficiencies for IBM server environments through unique support for innovative IBM server platforms, such as High Performance FICON® for System z®, z/OS® Metro/Global Mirror Incremental Resync, Extended Address Volumes, HyperPAV, Extended Distance FICON, and Cooperative Caching
Exceptional acquisition costs and total cost of ownership with enterprise choice warranties of one, two, three or four years on both hardware and advanced functions
Additional enhancements to improve overall business continuity, management, and security capabilities
Scalable, 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 and five-nines availability1, make it an ideal storage platform for supporting today’s round-the-clock, global business environment. Moreover, with its tremendous scalability, flexible tiered storage options, broad server support, and support for advanced IBM de-duplication technology, the DS8000 Turbo can help simplify the storage environment by consolidating multiple storage systems onto a single DS8000 system.
Common features
Hardware summary
Disk packages containing 16 disks ranging from 73 GB up to 1 TB disk capacities (solid-state, fibre channel, and SATA)
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 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 1024 TB of physical capacity, upgradeable without system disruption
