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Highlights

  • New seventh-generation architecture with extreme and balanced performance for increased application performance
  • ‘Pay-as-you-grow’ scalability up to 448 drives for DS5100 and the DS5300 for the most demanding capacity requirements utilising the EXP5000 expansion enclosure
  • Up to 700,000 input/output operations per second (IOPs) and 6,400 MegaBytes per second (MBps)
  • Next-generation 8 Gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces enable infrastructure simplification
  • Mixed host interfaces support (FC/SCSI over IP (iSCSI)) enables Storage Area Network (SAN) tiering
  • Balanced performance well-suited for virtualisation/consolidation
  • Support for intermixing FC/Full Disk Encryption (FDE)/Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) and solid state drives (SSD) enables cost effective tiered storage
  • Feature-rich management software that maximises utilisation and minimises storage total cost of ownership (TCO)
  • Designed to support future product enhancements
  • Centrally manage the DS series with the IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager
  • Host interface cards (HICs) designed to provide investment protection and lifecycle longevity now with 4 Gbps, 8 Gbps FC or optional 1 Gbps iSCSI connectivity to improve efficiency and lower costs
  • Designed to support high availability (HA) with dual active, hot-swappable controllers, power supplies and many non-disruptive firmware upgrades
  • Heterogeneous support for the most common operating systems, including Microsoft® Windows®, UNIX® and Linux®
  • Real-world performance that’s designed to meet the diverse and aggregate workloads created by consolidation/virtualisation
  • New high density EXP5060 enclosure supporting 60 - 1 TB SATA drives in 4U package.

The IBM System Storage DS5000 series storage system is designed to meet today’s and tomorrow’s demanding open-systems requirements while establishing a new standard for lifecycle longevity. Building on many decades of design expertise, the DS5000 series’ seventh-generation architecture delivers industry-leading performance, real reliability, multi-dimensional scalability and unprecedented investment protection.

The DS5000 series is equally adept at supporting transactional applications such as databases and Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), throughput-intensive applications such as High Performance Computing (HPC) and rich media and concurrent workloads for consolidation and virtualisation. With its relentless performance and extreme reliability and availability, the DS5000 series storage system can support the most demanding service level agreements (SLAs). And when requirements change, you can add or replace host interfaces, grow capacity, add cache and reconfigure the system quickly – ensuring that it will keep pace with your growing company.

This multi-dimensional scalability enables the DS5000 series storage system to extend beyond the normal three- to four-year lifecycle, protecting your storage investment by delaying (or even eliminating) the expense of migrating data to a new system and allowing you to amortise acquisition costs over extended periods of time. This lifecycle longevity enables the DS5000 series to continue delivering value long after other systems have been retired. The DS5000 series’ drive-level encryption offers affordable data security with no performance penalty. And the DS5000 series’ multiple replication options, drive level encryption and persistent cache backup can help ensure that any data in cache is captured and safe in the event of a power outage.


Common features

  • Efficient, compact 4U packaging designed for 19" rack
  • ‘Pay-as-you-grow’ designed to support non-disruptive growth
  • Easy-to-use, easy-to-configure management interface able to manage DS3000 and DS4000 series
  • Concurrent hardware upgrades and firmware loads support high availability design
  • Connectivity to IBM SAN switches, directors and routers
  • Heterogeneous support for the most common operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux

Hardware summary

  • Next-generation enterprise controller technology
  • Field-replaceable HICs – two per controller
    • Current release supports 4, 8 Gbps FC HICs or 1 Gbps iSCSI (16 total host ports)
  • Sixteen 4 Gb/s FC drive interfaces support up to 448 FC/SATA drives
  • Up to a total of 64 GB cache
    • Options include 4, 8, 16, 32 GB of cache per controller
    • Dedicated cache mirroring channels
    • Persistent cache backup in the event of a power outage
    • Field-upgradeable
  • Support for Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) 6, 5, 3, 10, 1, 0
  • Two performance levels (base: DS5100 and high: DS5300) with ability to field-upgrade performance levels

Feature Benefits
Flexible, replaceable host interfaces
  • Field-replaceable when customer’s infrastructure changes
  • Enables planning for the future while using current investments
  • Provides unique investment protection and lifecycle longevity
Industry-leading performance
  • Supports the most demanding SLAs and maintains SLAs through growth
  • Well-suited for environments with concurrent workloads such as consolidation and virtualisation
Linearly scalable IOPS performance
  • Maintains SLAs through growth
  • Overall IOPS performance increases with each new drive
Balanced performance
  • Equally adept at IOPS and MBps, the DS5000 series can support applications with wide-ranging performance requirements and the most demanding SLAs
  • Well-suited for data warehousing, consolidation and virtualisation environments that have diverse workloads and application requirements
  • Designed to concurrently support transactional applications, such as databases and OLTP and throughput-intensive applications, such as HPC and rich media
Custom XOR engine for RAID parity calculations
  • Efficiently handles compute-intensive parity calculations enabling exceptional disk-based performance that’s ideally suited for RAID 5 and RAID 6 configurations
Support for multiple RAID levels, including RAID 6
  • Designed to support high availability and security for mission-critical data
  • Designed to offer flexibility to configure the system to address varying service levels
Redundant, hot-swappable components
  • Designed to maintain data availability by enabling component replacement without stopping input/output (I/O)
Up to 448 FC or SATA drives
  • Supports the most demanding capacity requirements
  • Can intermix FC and SATA disk drives
  • Support for FDE on select FC drives secures data thought the drive’s lifecycle
  • Enables tiered storage in a single system where FC disk is allocated to applications that demand high performance and have high I/O rates, and less-expensive SATA disks are allocated to applications that require less performance
DS Storage Manager software
  • Feature-rich storage management software enables maximum utilisation and uninterrupted data availability
  • Configuration flexibility supports custom Logical Unit Number (LUN) tuning to ensure maximum performance or utilisation
  • Centralised management of all local and networked DS Storage Manager-based systems
  • Enables quick storage configuration and monitoring from a centralised interface
  • Configure volumes, perform routine maintenance and add new enclosures and capacity without interrupting access to data
Dynamic Expansion capabilities
  • Designed to offer the ability to bring unused storage online for a new host group or an existing volume to provide additional capacity on demand
  • Designed to eliminate application interruptions due to growth, reconfigurations or tuning
Up to 512 partitions
  • Designed to provide enough partitions to effectively support large-scale consolidation or virtualisation environments, thus helping to reduce hardware and storage management costs
Fully-integrated replication features
  • Multiple options enable administrators to best fit their replication needs
  • Local or remote copies can be used for file restoration, backups, application testing, data mining or disaster recovery (DR)
Support for heterogeneous, open operating systems
  • Supports Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Linux systems designed to enable the DS5000 series storage system to operate in any and all open-system environments

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
Height: 17.4 CM (6.87 in)
Width: 45.1 CM (17.75 in)
Depth: 61.6 CM (24,25 in)
Weight: 36.8 Kg (81.1 lbs)
Relative Humidity (no condensation) DS5000 series Controller Enclosure EXP5000 Drive Enclosure
Operating range 8 to 80 percent 8 to 80 percent
Storage range 5 to 80 percent 5 to 80 percent
Maximum dew point 26°C (79°F) 26°C (79°F)
Maximum gradient 10 percent per hour 10 percent per hour
Altitude ranges DS5000 series Controller Enclosure EXP5000 Drive Enclosure
Operating 30.5 m (100 ft) below sea level to 3,048 m (10,000 ft) above sea level 30.5 m (100 ft) below sea level to 3,000 m (9,842 ft) above sea level
Storage 30.5 m (100 ft) below sea level to 3,048 m (10,000 ft) above sea level 30.5 m (100 ft) below sea level to 3,000 m (9,842 ft) above sea level
Transit 30.5 m (100 ft) below sea level to 12,000 m (40,000 ft) above sea level 30.5 m (100 ft) below sea level to 12,000 m (40,000 ft) above sea level
Heat dissipation DS5000 series Controller Enclosure EXP5000 Drive Enclosure
Btu/Hr 1905 1,570
KVA 0.562 0.462
Watts (AC) 557 580
Amps (240 V ac) 3 2.25
The tabulated power and heat dissipation values are the maximum measured operating power.
Acoustic noise DS5000 series Controller Enclosure EXP5000 Drive Enclosure
Sound power 6.8 bels 6.75 bels
Sound pressure 68 dBA 67.5 dBA
Power input DS5000 series Controller Enclosure EXP5000 Drive Enclosure
Nominal voltage range 100 V ac to 240 V ac 100 V ac to 240 V ac
Frequency range 50 to 60 Hz 50 to 60 Hz
Max operating current 7.0 A at 100 V ac 3.0 A at 240 V ac 5.4 A at 100 V ac 2.25 A at 240 V ac

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