IBM System Storage N6000 series, Filer and Gateway

Easily respond to storage demands with advanced capabilities in a midrange storage system

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Highlights

  • Increase NAS storage flexibility and expansion capabilities by consolidating block and file data sets onto a single multiprotocol storage platform
  • Improve application performance with high-bandwidth, 64-bit architecture and the latest I/O technologies
  • Maximize storage efficiency and growth and preserve investments in staff expertise and capital equipment with data-in-place upgrades to more powerful IBM® System Storage® N series
  • Improve business efficiency with IBM System Storage N6000 series, also available with a Gateway feature, to reduce data management complexity in heterogeneous storage environments for data protection and retention

Today’s business environment demands innovation and flawless execution. You have to manage and protect valuable data to support 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 System Storage N6000 series systems, you can meet your network-attached storage (NAS) needs and provide high levels of application availability for everything from critical business operations to technical applications. You can also address NAS and storage area network (SAN) as primary and secondary storage requirements. In addition, you get outstanding value—flexible IBM systems offer excellent performance and impressive expandability at a low total cost of ownership.

Common features

  • Simultaneous multiprotocol support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), FCP, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, HTTP and FTP
  • File-level and block-level service in a single system
  • Support for Fibre Channel, SAS and SATA disk drives
  • Data ONTAP software
  • 70 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

Hardware summary

  • Up to 3,840 TB raw storage capacity
  • 12 to 40 GB random access memory
  • 1.6 GB to 4 GB nonvolatile memory
  • Integrated Fibre Channel, Ethernet and SAS ports
  • Quad-port 4 Gbps adapters (optional)
  • Up to four Flash Cache
  • Diagnostic LED/LCD
  • Dual redundant hot-plug integrated cooling fans and auto-ranging power supplies
  • 19 inch, rack mountable

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