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IBM System Storage DS5000 series

Workload optimized storage for todays demanding applications

Highlights

Balanced performance - up to 700,000 IOPs and 6400 Mbps - is well-suited for virtualization and consolidation Scalable up to 448 drives using the EXP5000 enclosure and up to 960 TB of high-density storage with the EXP5060 enclosure Support for intermixing drive typesFC, FC-SAS, SED, SATA and SSDand host interfacesFibre Channel and iSCSIfor investment protection and cost-effective tiered storage Central management of all IBM System Storage DS series products while maximizing utilization and lowering costs Designed to support high availability with hot-swappable components and non-disruptive rmware upgrades Supports IBM AIX and Power Systems T10-PI Data Integrity Initiative

The IBM System Storage DS5000 series is designed to meet todays and tomorrows demanding open-systems requirements while establishing a new standard for life cycle longevity. Building on many decades of design expertise, the DS5000 storage systems architecture delivers industry-leading performance, real reliability, multidimensional scalability and unprecedented investment protection. The DS5000 storage systems are equally adept at supporting transactional applications such as databases and On Line Transaction Processing OLTP, throughput-intensive applications such as high-performance computing (HPC) and rich media, and concurrent workloads for consolidation and virtualization. With relentless performance and superior reliability and availability, DS5000 series storage systems can support the most demanding service level agreements (SLAs) for the most common operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Linux. And when requirements change, you can add or replace host interfaces, grow capacity, add cache and recongure the system on the yensuring that it will keep pace with your growing company. This multidimensional scalability allows a DS5000 series storage system to extend beyond the normal three- to four-year life cycle, protecting your storage investment by delaying (or even eliminating) the expense of migrating data to a new system and allowing you to amortize acquisition costs over extended periods of time. This life-cycle longevity enables

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DS5000 storage systems to continue delivering value long after other systems have been retired. With drive-level encryption DS5000 series systems support affordable data security with no performance penalty. And the DS5000 storage systems 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.

EXP5000 drive enclosure

The EXP5000 drive enclosure is more than just a bunch of disks; the enclosure is designed to optimize performance, availability and serviceability by offering:

4 Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces for connectivity Up to 16 dual-ported Fibre Channel, FC-SAS or SATA disk drives that are intermixable in the same enclosure Optional Fibre Channel Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) An Environmental Service Module (ESM)-embedded loop switch Redundant 4 Gbps Fibre Channel drive loops to ensure complete accessibility to all drives in the event of a loop or cable failure Redundant power supplies, cooling fans and ESMs A 24x7x4hr warranty

10-Pack EXP5060 Disk Drive feature. The EXP5060 enclosure has a physical storage capacity of up to 120 TB per enclosure, using 2000 GB/7.2K SATA drives. DS5100 and DS5300 controllers support attachment of up to eight EXP5060 enclosures. A DS5100 or DS5300 controller attached to eight EXP5060 disk enclosures provides up to 960 TB of physical storage, all of which can be housed in a single 2101-200 rack system.

Designed to seamlessly adapt to change

All primary components are hot-swappable and can be easily accessed, removed or replaced. With industry-leading performance, reliability and robust storage management, DS5000 storage systems can add or replace host interfaces, increase performance, grow capacity and add cache to deliver unprecedented life cycle longevity and investment protection as your business grows.

EXP5060 drive enclosure

The EXP5060 High Density Disk Drive Enclosure is designed to accommodate up to 60 disk drive modules (DDM) in a 4U rack-mount enclosure. The EXP5060 enclosure can be populated with 1 or 2 TB SATA DDMs using the

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Relentless performance
DS5000 storage systems deliver unprecedented performance in a family of industry-leading technology. With seventhgeneration architecture the systems are optimized to power faster, more responsive applicationsincreasing productivity, improving customer satisfaction and meeting SLAs. And with linear scalability, DS5000 series systems are designed to meet the most demanding application and growth requirements.

drives creates tiered storage in a single system. And the balanced performance offered by the DS5000 storage system excels at both IOPS and MB/sec. This extensive exibility makes DS5000 storage systems a great choice for storage consolidation implementations where an individual storage system supports concurrent and diverse workloads and application requirements.

Maximize utilization and minimize TCO Trusted storage to protect and deliver your data
Built with a goal of the highest reliability and availability, DS5000 series storage systems offer redundant components, automated input/output I/O path failover, and extensive online conguration, reconguration and maintenance capabilities, helping to ensure that your data is available virtually 24x7x365. DS5000 storage systems are designed to help protect stored data as well:

DACstore technology stores conguration metadata on each drive. Proactive Drive Health Monitoring (PDHM) technology identies faulty drives before they create problems. RAID 6 technology guards against concurrent drive failures and errors. Persistent cache backup ensures that data in the cache is captured and safe in the event of a power outage. Full disk encryption ensures that data is protected throughout the drives life cycle.

As data continues to grow, companies must be able to efficiently manage their storage while minimizing total cost of ownership (TCO). The unparalleled conguration exibility of DS Storage Manager software creates superior utilizationgetting the most usable capacity out of the purchased capacity, while maximizing performance efficiency. DS Storage Manager software offers centralized administration of all DS Storage Manager-based systems, providing a common interface across all products and platforms. DS Storage Manager software also offers a unique blend of robust functionality with intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) and wizards to ensure that storage is easily and optimally congured.

Efficiencies to cut purchase and operational IT costs

DS5000 storage systems offer a modular design, giving you an affordable entry point with seamless pay-as-you-grow scalability as your requirements change. Efficient storage utilization lowers raw capacity requirements and supports intermixing high-performance and high-capacity drives to enable tiered storage. Like all IBM storage systems, the DS5000 storage systems exceptional per-drive performance creates value by getting the most performance out of the fewest drives. This reduces the number of drives needed to meet performance and capacity demandssupporting IBMs commitment to green technologies.

Address a wide range of storage needs

IBM DS Storage Manager software provides unparalleled conguration exibility to ensure that your DS5000 series storage system is congured to meet your applications logical unit number (LUN) requirements. DACstore technology allows drives to be relocated with data intact as requirements change. Support for intermixing high-performance and high-capacity

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Highest performance member of the proven IBM System Storage family

DS5000 series storage systems are driven by eld-proven rmware, enabling common features, functionality and management interface across all DS Storage Manager-based systems. This commonality enables lower TCO by reducing management complexity and offering centralized administration. Whats more, the DS5000 series storage system continues our long-standing tradition of unparalleled investment protection. DACstore technology consistently stores conguration metadata on every congured drive. This unique design creates dataintact drive portabilitysupporting drive-level recongurations and controller-level upgrades as system requirements change. Drives can be relocated within the storage system to improve channel utilization and protection, or even migrated as a complete volume group into another IBM DS5000 storage system.

of Storage Area Network (SAN)-attached devices from a single console. In addition, it includes performance monitoring capabilities for the DS3500 storage system. Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition V4.1:

Additional tools to help manage storage

DS5000 series storage systems are supported by a variety of IBM Tivoli software products. Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Storage Resource Manager and many other third-party hardware and software products can add to the capabilities of your system by enabling backup and storage reporting. Support for the new Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition V4.1 is designed to provide storage device conguration, performance monitoring and management

Offers continuous real-time monitoring and fault identication to help improve SAN availability. Provides performance reporting across multiple arrays from a single console. Helps monitor metrics such as throughput, I/O and data rates and cache utilization. Receives timely alerts that can enable event action based on your policies when thresholds are exceeded. Helps improve storage return on investment (ROI) by helping keep SANs reliably and dependably operational. Can reduce storage administration costs by helping simplify the management of complex SANs.

IBM funds IT
With fair market value leases for hardware products such as System Storage, IBM Global Financings residual value position helps lower the acquisition cost, so effectively you only pay for your use of the asset. Financing can convert up-front costs into a stream of monthly payments that make budgeting easier and predictable.

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