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 IBM System Storage DS8000 series
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- Designed to deliver robust, flexible, highly available and cost-effective disk storage to support continuous operations for mission-critical workloads
- Built for outstanding performance and supports 4 Gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel (FC)/IBM FICON high bandwidth connectivity for fast access to data
- Offers unique storage system logical partitions (LPAR) capability to help enable consolidation while maintaining separation for differing workloads
- Able to scale up to 512 Terabyte (TB) of physical capacity that can be accessed by a wide variety of servers
- Can help to enable greater efficiency for IBM server environments through features such as HyperPAV, co-operative caching and input/output (I/O) priorities
- Offers a choice of FC and Fibre Channel ATA (FATA) disk drives, enabling tiered storage usage
- Enterprise Choice warranty of 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-years on hardware and advanced functions.
Virtualised, resilient, high-performance storage for medium to large enterprises
The IBM System Storage DS8000 series has been enhanced to include IBM System Storage DS8000 Turbo models, which offer even higher performance, higher capacity storage systems that are designed to deliver a generation-skipping leap in performance, scalability, resiliency and total value. Created specifically for the mission-critical workloads of medium and large enterprises, the DS8000 series can help consolidate system storage, support tiered storage requirements, simplify storage management and support system availability to address the needs of businesses operating in an on demand world.
The DS8000 series is designed to provide exceptional performance while adding virtualisation capabilities that can help organisations allocate system resources more effectively and better control application quality of service. The DS8000 series offers powerful data backup, remote mirroring and recovery functions that can help protect data from unforeseen events. In addition, the DS8000 supports non-disruptive microcode changes. These functions are designed to help maintain data availability, which can benefit businesses in markets where information must be accessible around-the-clock, every day of the year.
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Hardware summary
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- High performance FC disk packages containing sixteen disks ranging from 73 GB up to 300 Gigabyte (GB) disk capacities
- 500 GB FATA disk drive packages for cost-effective second-tier near-line storage
- IBM FlashCopy, Global Mirror, Metro Mirror, Metro/Global Mirror and Global Copy provide flexible replication services to address your backup and disaster planning needs
- IBM DS Storage Manager centralises management in an easy-to-use Web-based interface.
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- 4-port 4 Gbps or 2 Gbps FC/FICON, 2-port IBM ESCON host adapter interfaces
- Offers from 2 to 32 host adapters and up to 128 FC/FICON host ports
- Fibre Channl Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) drive interface
- Minimum of 16 drives
- IBM POWER5+ microprocessors
- High-capacity cache with new caching algorithms
- 1.1 up to 512 TB of physical storage, upgradeable without system disruption.
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