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- Heterogeneous unified storage environment – Designed to provide unified storage access for multiprotocol, multivendor storage environments
- Versatile – Single, integrated architecture designed to support concurrent block input/output (I/O) and file serving over Ethernet and FC SAN infrastructures
- Storage consolidation – Designed to enable organisations to consolidate UNIX®, Linux®, Windows® and Web workloads with existing SAN storage, thereby helping to increase storage utilisation
- Builds on existing SAN infrastructure – Designed to integrate into existing SAN storage environments, helping to optimise investment protection and return on investment (ROI)
- Data management – Designed to provide advanced data management solutions that maximise availability and can help to reduce operational cost significantly
- Comprehensive software suite – Designed to provide robust system management, copy services, virtualisation technologies and disaster recovery and backup capabilities across all SAN resources.
The challenge: Improving storage utilisation and access
As enterprise storage requirements evolved from direct-attached to networked storage, many enterprises made significant investments in multiple storage architectures – direct-attached storage (DAS), SAN and NAS – to support the different access methods required by various business solutions. The result was often inefficient and underutilised storage environments. A critical IT management challenge is to optimise the use of existing storage to improve efficiency and ROI while continuing to support different access methods for different business solutions throughout the enterprise.
File-level usage and distributed enterprise usage of the SAN environment are ways to improve access and use of storage resources. Many enterprises, however, are not ready to replace their existing storage systems with new, unified ones. Instead, companies with extensive SAN storage networks are looking for ways to broaden the use of their infrastructures and achieve a greater ROI by provisioning SAN capacity for new business solutions requiring Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP), SCSI over IP (iSCSI) or NAS access and remote access.
The solution: IBM System Storage N series Gateway
The IBM System Storage N series Gateway product line is a network-based unified storage solution designed to provide IP and FCP access to SAN-attached heterogeneous storage arrays. The N6000 and N7000 series ordered with a Gateway feature code can help you make the most of the dynamic provisioning capabilities of Data ONTAP software across your existing FC SAN infrastructure to support an expanded set of business applications. The IBM N series Gateway is based on the Data ONTAP microkernel operating system, which is designed to unify block and file storage networking paradigms under a common architecture. The N series Gateway is designed to provide a comprehensive suite of advanced data management capabilities to help you consolidate, protect and recover mission-critical data for enterprise applications and users.
The IBM N series Gateway is designed to deliver the performance and capacity to meet access requirements for enterprises of all sizes. N series Gateway systems are intended to deliver industry-leading performance, offer terabytes of managed capacity and be configured for simultaneous active/active access with secure failover across two independent systems in a cluster
The N6000 and N7000 series Gateway product lines support the attachment to both N series EXN1000 and EXN4000 disk storage expansion units, as well as a broad range of IBM, EMC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, 3PAR and HP storage subsystems, including the IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) series, IBM System Storage DS8000 and DS4000 series. Clients with these storage subsystems in their SAN environments can now take advantage of the N series Gateway capabilities to help improve business efficiency and reduce data management complexity.
N7000 series Gateways
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- Simultaneous multiprotocol support for FCP, iSCSI, Common Internet File System (CIFS), Network File System (NFS), HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- File- and block-level service in a single system
- Data ONTAP software
- 16 TB maximum volume size
- Broad range of built-in features
- Multiple supported backup methods including disk- and host-based backup and tape backup to direct, SAN and Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) attached tape devices
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- Up to 1.176 Petabytes (PB) or 1,176 TB raw storage capacity supported from SAN-based storage resources
- 16 GB to 64 GB Error Checking and Correction (ECC) memory
- 512 MB to 4 GB nonvolatile memory
- Up to 52 full-duplex 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet ports
- Up to 56 4-Gigabits per second (Gbps) FC ports
- 10-Gbps Ethernet adapter card (optional)
- Quad-port 4-Gbps adapters (optional)
- Dual FC Low Voltage Differential (LVD) Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) Tape adapter
- Dual redundant hot-plug integrated cooling fans and auto-ranging power supplies
- 19" rack-mount enclosure
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N6000 series Gateways
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Hardware summary N6000 |
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- Simultaneous multiprotocol support for FCP, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP
- File- and block-level service in a single system
- Upgrade up to 840 TB of physical capacity while avoiding service disruption
- Support for FC and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) disk drives
- Data ONTAP software
- 16 TB maximum volume size
- Broad range of built-in features
- Multiple supported backup methods including disk- and host-based backup and tape backup to direct, SAN and GbE attached tape devices
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- Up to 804 TB raw storage capacity
- 4 GB to 21 GB Cache memory
- 512 MB to 4 GB nonvolatile memory
- 10 GbE adapter card (optional)
- Quad-port 4 Gbps adapters (optional)
- Up to 8 Performance Acceleration Modules
- Diagnostic Light Emitting Diode (LED)/Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
- Dual redundant hot-plug integrated cooling fans and auto-ranging power supplies 19" rack-mountable
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