NAS

The IBM® N3000 Express systems are designed to provide primary and secondary storage for midsize enterprises. Consolidating fragmented application-based storage and unstructured data into one unified, easily managed and expandable platform can help IT generalists increase their effectiveness. N3000 Express systems offer integrated block-level and file-level data access, intelligent management software and data protection capabilities—like higher-end IBM System Storage™ N series models—in a cost-effective package. IBM N3000 Express series innovations include internal controller support for Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) or SATA drives, expandable I/O connectivity and onboard remote management.

• Platform supportedSystem x, System p, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Linux for IBM System z, Linux for System i, Linux for System p, Linux for Intel systems, NetWare, VMWare, Apple Macintosh OS X.

• Disk capacityN3300 Express scales up to 69 TBs N3600 Express scales up to 104 TBs

• Storage MgmtIBM System Storage N series FilerView IBM System Storage N series Operations Manager, Provisioning Manager, Protection Manager

Ideal Applications Include: business-critical file and print application storage server for data-dense environments

• Platform supportedDesigned to integrate seamlessly into heterogeneous environments with support for all major network operating system protocols including NFS (Unix®/Linux®), NetWare (Novell), AppleTalk, and HTTP.

• Disk capacityThe 7979-ENx Express model offers two 36 GB hot-swap, 15,000 rpm SAS disks standard and the flexible choice of adding up to 1.2 TB of additional internal data disk capacity.

• Storage MgmtMicrosoft® Windows® Storage Server 2003 R2 with Print and Storage Manager 2.0 preloaded. Five 1 year free Client user licenses for Tivoli® Continuous Data Protection are also included.

The N3700 filer integrates storage and storage processing into a single unit, facilitating affordable network deployments.

• Platform supportedThe N series systems support a multitude of host attachment capabilities via FCP, CIFS, NFS and iSCSI protocols. See product “N series Interoperability Matrix” for more information.

• Disk capacityEXN2000 – 10K RPM FC disk drives (72 GB, 144 GB, 300 GB), 15K RPM FC disk drives (72 GB, 144 GB) EXN1000 – 7200 RPM SATA disk drives (250 GB, 320 GB, 500 GB)

• Storage MgmtFilerView®, SecureAdmin™, SNMP, Operations Manager /Industry standard NDMP protocols