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IBM System Storage N5000 series with Nearline storage


	Overview \| Features & benefits

The solution: Near-line storage

The IBM System Storage™ N series populated with SATA disk drives and the NearStore® feature is designed to address those storage challenges by providing near-primary storage performance at a significantly lower cost. A disk-based, secondary storage device for enterprise applications, near-line storage can help organizations complement and improve existing tape backup, archiving, and data protection schemes by inserting economical and simple-to-use disk-based storage between application storage and tape libraries in a three-tier storage architecture.

Near-line storage deployments can provide economical storage and rapid disk-based access to reference data to help address business and regulatory requirements. It can serve as a key component of a hierarchical storage management infrastructure by storing less-critical data on devices whose costs and performance stand between primary and tape storage, thereby helping to enable cost-effective data lifecycle management.

Near-line storage can help organizations enhance existing backup and restore operations by acting as a large data cache or by replacing tape backup devices. Combined with SnapVault® and the NearStore feature, the N series is designed to function as a robust and fully integrated appliance that helps make data backup and restore operations rapid and reliable. In addition, because the total cost of ownership can be lower than primary storage and performance is better than tape, near-line storage can serve as an economical, high-capacity storage device located remotely for multi-site replication programs.

Common features		Hardware summary

Near-primary storage performance 16TB maximum volume size Integrated automatic RAID manager, Snapshot™, telnet, e-mail alerts, NIS, DNS, SNMP and FilerView®, standard software SnapRestore®, SnapMirror®, SnapVault®, SnapDrive®, MultiStore®, SnapLock®, and DataFabric® Manager licensed software		8TB – 96TB physical storage capacity 6GB ECC memory 256MB non-volatile memory 8 PCI-X slots 19" rack-mount enclosures Hot-plug disk drives Redundant hot-plug cooling fans and power supplies Full-duplex 10/100Base-T Ethernet