IBM Total Storage DS300 - Dual Controller
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1. States October 2005 All Rights Reserved IBM the IBM logo the e business logo BladeCenter Express Portfolio server FlashCopy Lotus Notes ServeRAID TotalStorage and xSeries are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both Microsoft SQL Server and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States other countries or both Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States other countries or both Other company product and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others This document could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors IBM may make changes improvements or alterations to the products programs and services described in this document including termination of such products programs and services at any time and without notice Any statements regarding IBM s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only The information contained in this document is current as of the initial date of publication only and is subject to change without notice IBM shall have no responsibility to update such information IBM is not responsible for the performance or interoperability of any non IBM products discussed herein Performance data for IBM and non IBM products and services contained in this document was derive2. conditions of the agreements e g IBM Customer Agreement Statement of Limited Warranty International Program License Agreement etc under which they are provided References in this document to IBM products programs or services do not imply that IBM intends to make such products programs or services available in all countries in which IBM operates or does business Any reference to an IBM program or product in this document is not intended to state or imply that only that program may be used Any functionally equivalent program or product that does not infringe IBM s intellectual property rights may be used instead It is the user s responsibility to evaluate and verify the operation of any non IBM product program or service IBM s customer is responsible for ensuring its own compliance with legal requirements It is the customer s sole responsibility to obtain advice of competent legal counsel as to the identification and interpretation of any relevant laws and regulatory requirements that may affect the customer s business and any actions the customer may need to take to comply with such laws IBM does not provide legal advice or represent or warrant that its services or products will ensure that the customer is in compliance with any law ull Copyright IBM Corporation 2005 IBM Corporation Systems and Technology Group 3039 Cornwallis Road Research Triangle Park NC 27709 2195 U S A Produced in the United
3. Center servers in either single or dual controller configurations SCSI reliability with scalability for tomorrow By utilizing standard xSeries hot swap Ultra320 SCSI drives which are designed to offer high mean time between failure the DS300 is ideal for high I O processor IOP performance today and allows for future growth tomorrow The modular design of the DS300 is designed to allow you to eas ily perform upgrades and additions to help meet the needs of your growing changing application environment scaling to support increasing volumes of data flexibly and affordably In addition advanced software features on the DS300 including access con trol lists ACLs online array expansion online LUN expansion and Global HotSpare are designed to give admin istrators the power to configure storage according to changing usage needs These features also help enable IT man agers to share storage across multiple application servers Designed to ensure business continuity At entry level prices the DS300 is designed with impressive redundancy features The subsystem is a rack mountable 3U enclosure with 14 SCSI drives and redundant design hot swap power and cooling modules the DS300 features RAID reliability and high availability software to help maintain operations The storage subsystem supports either one or two controllers for high availability configurations Each con troller is designed to suppor
4. Simplified SAN storage for IBM server xSeries and BladeCenter systems IBM TotalStorage DS300 Highlights E Designed to provide a cost E Includes easy to use effective Internet SCSI iSCSI IBM ServeRAID Manager subsystem for workgroup stor which provides common age applications such as file management software print and Web serving as well as remote boot for diskless E Scales to 4 2TB of physical servers storage capacity using 300GB Ultra320 SCSI drives E Leverages standard Ethernet infrastructure to help offer a simple affordable storage area network SAN solution with single and dual controller configurations Flexible low cost SAN storage The IBM TotalStorage DS300 is an entry level low cost workgroup storage subsystem for IBM server xSeries and BladeCenter servers Designed to deliver advanced function ality at a breakthrough price the DS300 offers an exceptional solution for work group storage applications such as file print and Web serving as well as remote boot storage for diskless servers Leveraging standard Ethernet infra structure and highly reliable SCSI drives the DS300 is designed to offer a simple affordable storage area network SAN solution that can be used in network attached environments for shared storage For even greater flexi bility the DS300 is designed to allow simultaneous support of heterogeneous operating system OS environments for xSeries and Blade
5. d under specific operating and environmental conditions The actual results obtained by any party implementing such products or services will depend on a large number of factors specific to such party s operating environment and may vary significantly IBM makes no representation that these results can be expected or obtained in any implementation of any such products or services MB GB and TB equal 1 000 000 1 000 000 000 and 1 000 000 000 000 bytes respectively where referring to storage capacity Actual storage capacity will vary based upon many factors and may be less than stated Some numbers given for storage capacities give capacity in native mode followed by capacity using data compression technology TSDO0368 USEN 05
6. ontrollers Single Single Dual Controller upgrade No Yes Not applicable RAID cache memory per 256MB 256MB 256MB controller Battery backup for cache No Yes Yes Host interface Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI Host ports per controller 1 2 2 System Memory min max per 512MB 512MB 1GB 512MB 1GB controller Drive interface Ultra320 SCSI Ultra320 SCSI Ultra320 SCSI Number of drive bays 7 14 max 14 14 Maximum storage capacity 4 2TB 4 21B 4 2TB RAID levels 0 1 10 5 50 0 1 10 5 50 0 1 10 5 50 Power supplies and fans Single optional dual redundant design Dual redundant design Dual redundant design Rack support Industry standard 19 inch rack Industry standard 19 inch rack Industry standard 19 inch rack Form factor 3U 3U 3U Requires a second power supply upgrade for maximum drives For more information Contact your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner or visit e ibm com iotalstorage e ibm com eserver xseries e ibm com bladecenter To view a complete list of pre qualified TotalStorage solutions visit e ibm com totalstorage proven THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED IBM EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR INFRINGEMENT IBM products are warranted according to the terms and
7. t two Gigabit Ethernet ports for data paths and one port for management so that even if a line or a controller fails multiple paths between servers and storage can help maintain a connection The DS300 also offers optional advanced features such as IBM FlashCopy solutions which are designed to help reduce storage backup windows and improve storage utilization for Microsoft Exchange Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Lotus Notes applications Powerful management tools The DS300 is designed to offer excellent storage management and configuration capabilities through IBM ServeRAID Manager helping enable clients to manage multiple IBM TotalStorage DS300 and DS400 subsystems as well as direct attached internal ServeRAID controllers all through a single easy to use management console with an extensive online help library Configuration wizards simplify initial storage setup IBM ServeRAID Manager is designed to support most common operating environments for workgroup applications The management software of the DS300 is built directly into the client server workgroup manager IBM Director IBM Director is designed to allow IT administrators to view and track the hardware configuration of remote systems in detail and monitor the usage and performance of critical components such as processors disks and memory IBM TotalStorage DS300 at a glance Model 1701 1RL 1701 1RS 1701 2RD RAID c
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