Reliable—Designed to address the needs of business- and mission-critical applications through high data availability and system-level redundancy features
Versatile—Single, integrated architecture designed to support concurrent block I/O and file serving over Ethernet and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructures
Fast—Supports high throughput and fast response times for database, e-mail and technical applications
Flexible—Fibre Channel and SATA disk drive capabilities allow for deployment in multiple solution environments including data compliant retention, near-line storage, disk-to-disk backup scenarios and high-performance, mission-critical I/O intensive operations
The challenge: Managing data for business advantage
In an increasingly demanding and competitive business landscape, effective data management is essential to the success of the enterprise. Data availability, from any location, gives employees, partners and customers the up-to-the-minute information they need to work productively, make timely decisions and meet business goals. Across industries, enterprises of all types and sizes face similar data storage challenges. They need intelligent data and storage management capabilities to manage growth with limited administration resources. They must consolidate storage and improve resource utilization for many applications across multiple server and storage platforms. When they deploy storage and data management systems to address their needs, they must reduce both acquisition and management costs.
The solution: IBM System Storage N5000 series—Unified Storage Architecture
The IBM System Storage™ N5000 series offers additional choice to organizations facing the challenges of enterprise data management. The N5000 series is designed to deliver high-end enterprise storage and data management value with midrange affordability.
These enterprise storage systems deliver a unified storage architecture with versatility to simultaneously meet diverse needs—SAN and NAS, primary and secondary storage—while providing high levels of availability. N5000 systems handle complex requirements in a way that is intended to simplify the storage infrastructure and improve productivity.
The N5000 line of offerings is fully compatible with all IBM N series systems, which meet a range of storage needs, from small remote office and departmental applications through the largest enterprise applications and consolidations.
The N5000 products offer built-in enterprise serviceability and manageability features support your efforts to increase reliability, simplify and unify storage infrastructure and maintenance, and deliver exceptional economy.
Common features
Hardware summary
Simultaneous multiprotocol support for FCP, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP
File- and block-level service in a single system
Upgrade up to 504 TB of physical capacity while avoiding service disruption
Support for Fibre Channel and SATA disk drives
Data ONTAP® software
16 TB maximum volume size
Broad range of built-in features
Multiple supported backup methods including disk- and host-based backup and tape backup to direct, SAN and GbE attached tape devices
Up to 504 TB raw storage capacity
2 GB to 16 GB ECC memory
512 MB to 1 GB nonvolatile memory
10 GbE adapter card (optional)
Quad-port 4 Gbps adapters (optional)
Dual FC LVD SCSI Tape adapter
Diagnostic LED/LCD
Dual redundant hot-plug integrated cooling fans and auto-ranging power supplies
