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The IBM System Storage DS6000 series, along with the DS8000 series, delivers an enterprise storage continuum of systems with shared replication services and common management interfaces.
The DS6000 and DS8000 series systems are designed to help your company simplify its storage infrastructure, support business continuity and optimize information lifecycle management.
IBM XIV Storage System
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The IBM XIV Storage System™ is an enterprise-class, Tier-1 disk system designed to deliver high performance and eliminate hot spots through full exploitation of all system resources for all applications. Its revolutionary architecture provides performance, scalability, and ease of management while harnessing the high capacity and cost benefits of SATA drives. The XIV Storage System is based on a grid of standard, off-the-shelf hardware components. It employs a single storage architecture designed to provide the highest level of performance, reliability and features, together with management simplicity and exceptional TCO.
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180 TB raw capacity
24 FC ports (4Gbps, 2Gbps or 1Gbps)
6 iSCSI ports
240 Gbps cache to disk bandwidth |
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Near-instantaneous snapshots
Volume cloning with immediate availability
Remote mirroring over FC or iSCSI connection |
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Active – Active N + 1 redundancy of all system components
Rapid disk rebuild |
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IBM System Storage DS8000
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The IBM System Storage DS8000 Turbo offers high–performance, high–capacity, secure storage systems that are designed to deliver resiliency and total value for the most demanding, heterogeneous storage environments.
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1.1 TB up to 1024 TB with multiple drive options |
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Robust mirroring and copy functions that can help protect data from planned or unplanned outages; Exceptional support for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads; Innovative self-encrypting disk drives for protection of sensitive information from internal and external threats; Heterogeneous server platform support; Flexible configuration options and high scalability to support storage consolidation through tiered storage |
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Enterprise Choice warranty of 1, 2, 3 or 4 years on hardware and advanced functions offers dramatic opportunities to help organizations reduce the TCO of their storage systems. |
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IBM System Storage DS6000
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The IBM System Storage DS6000 series is designed to provide high availability and high performance in a small, modular package. This series, along with the DS8000 series, offers an enterprise-class continuum of storage systems with shared replication services and common management interfaces. The DS6000 series systems are well suited to help you simplify your storage infrastructure, support business continuity, and optimize information lifecycle management.
| Flexible, high-performance storage for medium and large enterprises |
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The IBM System Storage DS6000 series is designed to provide high availability and high performance in a small, modular package.
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| Enterprise-class Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) |
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The DS6800 is designed to provide enterprise-class reliability, availability and serviceability.
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| Performance, storage capacity in a compact enclosure |
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The DS6800 measures 5.25" high and 19" wide, and it weighs approximately 135 lbs. with up to 8 TB of storage. The DS6800 system is designed to provide the performance and resiliency previously found in monolithic storage systems that weigh over 2000 lbs and are the size of double-wide refrigerators.
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| Consolidated storage infrastructure |
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The DS6800 can help you simplify your IT infrastructure by supporting a wide range of servers, both mainframe and open systems, including IBM System z™, System i™, System p™, System x™ and non-IBM platforms running UNIX®, Linux®, and Windows® operating systems.
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