Support continuous operations for mission-critical workloads with cost-effective disk systems designed to be robust, flexible and highly available
Improve responsiveness with world-class performance
Manage growth and complexity through consolidation fostered by scalability up to 512 TB, support for a wide variety of server platforms, and advanced management capabilities
Realize greater efficiencies for IBM server environments through features such as HyperPAV, Extended Distance FICON®, and cooperative caching
Improve the cost structure of operations through tiered-storage, which supports both high performance and high capacity disk drive technology
Manage the total cost of ownership (TCO) with Enterprise Choice warranties of 1-year, 2-year, 3-year 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 environments. The DS8000 Turbo series provides exceptional performance and should be considered for applications that require fast access to data. What’s more, for those concerned with maintaining business uptime, the DS8000 provides resiliency features that support continuous availability. With its high-capacity scalability, broad server support and virtualization features, the DS8000 Turbo is well suited for simplifying the storage environment by consolidating data from multiple storage systems on a single system. Through virtualization, organizations can allocate system resources more effectively and better control application quality of service.
Common features
Hardware summary
High performance Fibre Channel disk packages containing 16 disks ranging from 73 GB up to 300 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 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
Virtualized, resilient, high-performance storage for mission-critical workloads
