Meet diverse and changing needs. Consolidate diverse data sets onto a unified storage platform that provides simultaneous block and file services.
Perform when your applications need it most. Outstanding performance with high bandwidth, 64-bit architecture, and the latest I/O technologies.
Maximize your resources. Highly efficient storage utilization makes it possible for you to dramatically reduce power, cooling, and space demands.
Respond to growth. Preserve investments in staff expertise and capital equipment with data-in-place upgrades to more powerful N series systems.
Improve your business efficiency. Take advantage of the N6000 series Gateway capabilities to reduce data management complexity in heterogeneous storage environments.
Today’s business environment demands innovation and increasingly flawless execution. You have to manage and protect valuable data to enable business growth and success. Your IT operations have to evolve with the business while meeting budget, staffing, and infrastructure limits. Virtualized computing requires networked storage systems supporting diverse data sets to unlock the full potential of virtualized servers.
With IBM N6000 series systems you can simultaneously meet your diverse needs—SAN and NAS, primary and secondary storage. And you get outstanding value: our flexible systems offer excellent performance and impressive scalability at a low total cost of ownership.
Common features
Hardware summary
Simultaneous multiprotocol support for FCP, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, HTTP, and FTP
File-level and block-level service in a single system
Upgrade up to 840 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-based and host-based backup and tape backup to direct, SAN and GbE attached tape devices
Up to 840 TB raw storage capacity
4 GB to 32 GB cache memory
512 MB to 4 GB nonvolatile memory
10 GbE adapter card (optional)
Quad-port 4 Gbps adapters (optional)
Up to 8 Performance Acceleration Modules
Diagnostic LED/LCD
Dual redundant hot-plug integrated cooling fans and auto-ranging power supplies
