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1. EXP700 or EXP710 Expansion Units or 112 Serial ATA Disk drives using eight DS4000 EXP100 Expansion Units Weight excludes disk drive modules dual controller models only 4 For specific details and configuration availability please visit ibm com storage ds4300 a a SSS A Ee m Sse e w ee E w ee X y m Copyright IBM Corporation 2005 IBM Systems and Technology Group 9000 Rita Road Tucson AZ 85744 Produced in the United States of America February 2005 All Rights Reserved IBM the IBM logo the e business logo AIX server e business on demand BladeCenter FlashCopy Lotus Notes pSeries Tivoli TotalStorage TotalStorage Proven and xSeries are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States other countries or both Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States other countries or both Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States other countries or both Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc in the United States other countries or both UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries 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 include2. cate as spares Additional tools to help manage storage The DS4800 is supported by a variety of IBM Tivoli software products including IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager as well as many other third party hardware and software products These applications can add to the capabilities of the DS4300 by enabling backup and storage reporting The IBM TotalStorage Proven pro gram is designed to identify and test many of these products for interoper ability with the DS4300 and other IBM disk products Products in this program have been tested to help reduce or eliminate time consuming installation and support issues For more information please visit ibm com totalstorage proven Service and support The DS4000 series has a three year hardware warranty Additional services for hardware installation DS4000 Storage Manager configuration and advanced storage management are also available from IBM Global Services IGS IBM SupportLine services can assist with using DS4000 Storage Manager helping to enable customers to self maintain their DS4000 system The optional DS4000 Service Alert and the new DS4000 Alert Manager serv ices are designed to enable the DS4300 to quickly notify the IBM Support Center of problems when they occur helping to reduce or eliminate the need for the customer to place a service call This feature is capable of forwarding error alert messages via e mail from D
3. interrupting user access to data Failover drivers performance tuning routines and cluster support are also standard features of the DS4000 Storage Manager By providing these features and an intu itive user interface the DS4000 Storage Manager is designed to help reduce the complexity of storage management and the amount of time spent managing storage The turbo option includes DS4000 Storage Manager Version 9 10 which is designed to support up to 256 logical volumes per storage partition array groups up to 2TB and the SCSI 3 Persistent Reservation facility for enhanced server clustering applica tions These additional capabilities help the DS4300 to support larger storage environments Enhanced storage management capabilities The IBM TotalStorage DS4300 has sev eral features designed to improve data management and storage system per formance Using the DS4000 Storage Manager software administrators can partition the DS4800 into as many as 16 virtual servers with the turbo option they can create up to 64 partitions This capability allows IT organizations to strategically allocate storage capacity helping to optimize the utilization of storage space and help reduce hard ware and storage management costs Instead of purchasing multiple RAID controllers with their own dedicated disks and management organizations can attach multiple servers to one cen tral system the DS4300 which is designed to provide hardw
4. 500 DS4400 and DS4300 Turbo Mid range Disk Systems have the capability to support attachment of both DS4000 EXP700 and DS4000 EXP710 Fibre Channel Disk Expansion units and DS4000 EXP100 Serial ATA Disk Expansion units concurrently This feature requires the DS4500 DS4400 or DS4300 Turbo systems be upgraded to the DS4000 Storage Manager V9 10 firmware 06 10 or later and host based code SM V9 10 or later With this feature you can create and man age distinct array groups that are built from either FC disks or SATA disks and allocate logical drives to the appropriate applications utilizing a single DS4000 system Those applications that demand high performance and have high I O rates could use the FC based drives while near line or applications that do not demand the higher perform ance can be maintained on the SATA based drives Centralized administration through DS4000 Storage Manager The TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager software included with the DS4800 is designed to support central ized management of all local and net worked DS4000 series systems DS4000 Storage Manager allows administrators to quickly configure and monitor storage from a Java technology based Web browser inter face It is also designed to allow them to customize and change settings as well as configure new volumes define mappings handle routine maintenance and dynamically add new enclosures and capacity to existing volumes without
5. S4000 Storage Manager to IBM to help expedite diagnosis and repair of failed hardware and software problems Competitive financing options from IBM Global Financing IBM Global Financing offers some of the industry s most competitive rates for a wide range of IBM products and serv ices including the DS4300 for the duration of the financing term For more information please visit ibm com financing High performance storage for the on demand world The features of the DS4300 including the turbo option further enhance the functionality flexibility and scalability of the DS4000 series As a high performance Fibre Channel storage system the DS4300 is designed to enable fast responsive applications that can help improve transaction rates and customer satisfaction The performance capacity and data management and protection capabilities of the DS4300 can not only help address the storage needs of today but also provide a base for continued growth to help meet future storage requirements By combining these capabilities with a design focused on high reliability manageability and affordability the DS4300 offers a cost effective storage system for the on demand world IBM TotalStorage DS4300 at a glance Characteristics Model RAID controller Cache Host interface Drive interface Supported drives RAID levels Storage partitions Maximum drives supported Fans and power supplies Rack support Manag
6. Scalable high performance storage for on demand computing environments IBM TotalStorage DS4300 formerly IBM TotalStorage FAStT600 IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Highlights E Designed to deliver high per E Includes IBM TotalStorage formance of up to 768 MBps DS4000 Storage Manager to throughput with turbo option help centrally manage the DS4000 series formerly the E Supports up to 112 hard drives FAStT Storage Servers and scales up to 33 6TB with high performance 2Gb FC disks amp Designed to help facilitate stor with the DS4300 Turbo or age consolidation in storage 28TB with Serial ATA disks with area network SAN network DS4300 and DS4300 Turbo attached storage NAS and Supports up to 14 hard drives direct attach environments and scales to 4 2TB with DS4300 single controller Wide range of storage consolidation and clustering applications The IBM TotalStorage DS4300 formerly FAStT600 Storage Server is designed to be an affordable scalable storage server for storage consolidation and clustering applications Its modular architecture which includes Dynamic Capacity Addition Dynamic Volume Expansion and a turbo option can support e business on demand environments by helping to enable storage to grow as demands increase Autonomic features such as online firmware upgrades and DS4000 Service Alert also help enhance the system s usability The DS4000 EXP710 switched disk expansion unit has a
7. are failover with dual controllers and common management Other DS4300 features that can help enhance data management and protec tion include FlashCopy Dynamic Volume Expansion VolumeCopy and Enhanced Remote Mirroring The IBM FlashCopy feature is designed to take instant point in time copies of logical volumes which may be used for file restora tion backups application testing or data mining Dynamic Volume Expansion is designed to allow administrators to resize logical volumes without dis rupting users This feature can work well for applications with rapidly growing data requirements such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange Available only with the turbo option the VolumeCopy feature is designed to provide full replication of one logical volume source to another target within the DS4300 VolumeCopy is designed to allow read only access to the source volume during the copy process and suspend writes to support point in time integrity Supported with V9 1 is Enhanced Remote Mirror It consists of Global Mirror with Asynchronous Write order Consistency which is critical for mirroring multi LUN applica tions Global Copy with Asynchronous and Metro Mirror with Synchronous Multiple DS4300s can use a common pool of hot spare disk drives as a cost effective way of improving availability even if the DS4300s are attached to different servers IT administrators can determine the number of drives to allo
8. drive storage unit This helps address the requirements of vari ous fixed content and data reference applications which require large amounts of storage capacity but do not have the high utilization and access characteristics satisfied by DS4000 EXP700 and DS4000 EXP710 Fibre Channel disk drive storage Scalability throughout the series Because the DS4300 is highly scalable up to 112 fibre channel or 112 Serial ATA disk drives with the turbo option it can be upgraded from a workgroup SAN to an enterprise network storage system thereby providing flexibility to grow with your business In addition by using the IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager software multiple DS4800s can be combined to help address additional performance and capacity requirements further enhancing your scalability options Another scalability feature of the DS4800 is Dynamic Capacity Expansion DCE which is designed to provide the ability to add DS4000 EXP700 or DS4000 EXP100 enclosures to an existing DS4300 dual controller model or DS4000 EXP700 DS4000 EXP710 or EXP100 to a DS4300 with Turbo feature without stopping opera tions By adding these enclosures the DS4800 can help bring unused storage online for a new host group or an exist ing volume to provide additional capac ity on demand It is designed to allow upgrades to higher performing DS4000 series sys tems while keeping data intact helping to minimize disruptions during
9. e capacities give capacity in native mode followed by capacity using data compression technology 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 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 does 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 Base model without turbo option provides up to 400 MB sec throughput n Base model without turbo option supports up to 56 fibre channel disk drives using three DS4000 EXP700 Expansion Units or 112 Serial ATA disk drives using eight DS4000 EXP100 Expansion Units With turbo option 112 fibre channel disk drives using seven DS4000
10. ement software SAN support Warranty 1722 60U 1722 6LU single controller model Single or dual active 2GB RAID controllers Single controller model 256 MB Base dual controller model 512MB total battery backed With turbo option 2GB total battery backed 2 or 4 Fibre Channel FC Switched and FC Arbitrated Loop FC AL standard Base single and dual controller models 2 Gbps FC AL With turbo option Auto sensing 1 Gbps 2 Gbps FC AL 36 4GB 73 4GB 146 8GB and 300GB 10 000 rom 18 2GB 36 4GB 73 4GB and 146 8GB 15 000 rom Omicron Single controller and base dual controller 1 host group standard upgradeable to 4 8 or 16 storage partitions With turbo option 8 upgradeable 16 or 64 Single model 14 FC drives Base dual model 56 FC drives using three DS4000 EXP700 Expansion Units or 112 Serial ATA drives using 8 DS4000 EXP100 Expansion Units With turbo option 112 FC drives using 7 DS4000 EXP700 or EXP710 Expansion Units or 112 Serial ATA drives using 8 DS4000 EXP100 Expansion Units Dual redundant hot swappable for dual controller models 19 inch industry standard rack IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager versions 8 3 8 4 and 9 10 Supported IBM FC switches and directors product numbers 2005 2006 2109 3534 2031 2032 2034 2042 2061 2062 and BladeCenter 8 year parts and labor warranty next business day response upgradeable to 24x7 support with 4 hour response Physical characteristics Dimensio
11. ives when using three DS4000 EXP700 disk enclosures or 112 SATA disk drives when using eight EXP100 Expansion Units With the turbo option it can support up to 112 drives when using seven DS4000 EXP700 or DS4000 EXP710 disk enclo sures The base dual controller model offers up to 16 8TB of Fibre Channel and up to 16 storage partitions By adding the turbo option the DS4300 can support up to 33 6TB of fibre chan nel and up to 64 storage partitions The DS4800 dual controller and DS4300 Turbo offer up to 28TB of Serial ATA physical disk storage capacity with the DS4000 EXP100 Other features of the turbo option include an increased cache size of 2GB and an auto sensing capability to help detect host connectivity speed This auto sensing capability adds support for 1 Gbps Fibre Channel connectivity to the base model s 2 Gbps Fibre Channel interface allowing the DS4300 to support a wider range of devices and thus is designed to provide greater interoperability The turbo option also helps extend the copy services capabili ties of the DS4300 by including the VolumeCopy feature which is designed to enable full replication of logical volumes for enhanced data manage ment and protection Also available is version 9 1 with turbo option supporting Enhanced Remote Mirroring for replication of logical volumes DS4000 Intermix feature for attachment of Fiber Channel and Serial ATA Disk Storage Expansion Units The IBM TotalStorage DS4
12. lp ing to make server clustering more cost effective The DS4300 single controller offers 4 2TB of fibre channel physical disk storage for entry level solutions The DS4800 is well suited for cost conscious workgroup SANs as well as small businesses and data centers Designed for open systems environ ments this storage system helps provide heterogeneous platform sup port by including failover drivers for the Microsoft Windows 2000 Windows Server 2003 Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Advance Server operating system and optional support for AIX except single controller Sun Solaris HP UX Novell NetWare and Linux operating sys tems The DS4300 is designed to inter operate with IBM server pSeries and xSeries servers as well as with Intel processor based and UNIX operating system based servers To help make integration easy IBM tests the DS4300 for interoperability with IBM servers as well as with many other brands of servers and switches Part of the DS4000 Series The DS4800 is part of the DS4000 series which uses common storage management software and expansion enclosures Dual controller models are designed to be compatible with existing DS4000 EXP700 disk enclosures and includes many of the same high performance software and redundant hardware design features as other DS4000 series systems The DS4800 dual controller models can also be used with the DS4000 EXP100 Serial ATA disk
13. n ESM embedded Fibre Channel loop switch The loop switch creates what is essentially point to point Fibre Channel communication allowing the ESMs and drives to oper ate as though they were on a private Fibre Channel arbitrated loop but with the performance and diagnostic advan tages of Fibre Channel fabric A great advantage of the DS4000 EXP710 is a significant reduction in the number of Fibre Channel nodes on the drive loops The DS4000 EXP710 has far fewer nodes on the drive loop than the DS4000 EXP700 The DS4800 single controller offers up to 4 2TB of Fibre Channel FC physical disk storage The DS4300 offers up to 16 8TB of FC physical disk storage capacity with the attachment of three DS4000 EXP700s The DS4300 Turbo offers up to 33 6TB of fibre channel physical disk storage capacity with the attachment of seven DS4000 EXP700s or DS4000 EXP710s Both the DS4300 and DS4300 Turbo offer up to 28TB of Serial ATA physical disk storage capac ity with the attachment of eight DS4000 EXP100s This server is designed to help consolidate direct attached stor age into a centrally managed shared or storage area network SAN environ ment using fibre channel disk drives and the DS4000 EXP700 that attaches to the DS4300 and the DS4000 EXP700 or DS4000 EXP710 with the DS4800 with Turbo feature With built in support for four Fibre Channel attached servers the need for additional switches is reduced or eliminated he
14. ns Weight 132 3 mm H x 482 mm W x 597 mm D 5 2 in x 19 in x 24 in 30 kg 66 Ibs Supported systems For a list of currently supported servers operating systems host bus adapters clustering applications and SAN switches and directors refer to the DS4300 Interoperability Matrix available at ibm com storage ds4300 For availability dates configuration options and attachment capabilities refer to ibm com storage ds4300 The DS4300 is supported only in rack installations With optional features up to three DS4000 EXP700 Expansion Units can be attached to the DS4300 dual controller enclosure for a maximum of 56 drives With the turbo option feature up to seven DS4000 EXP700 or EXP710 Expansion Units can be attached to the DS4300 enclosure for a maximum of 112 disk drives For more information Contact your IBM representative IBM Business Partner or visit ibm com otalstorage ds4300 IBM Global Financing IBM Global Financing can help you control costs throughout the entire IT life cycle with highly competitive rates and end of lease or end of life options that maximize flexibility while minimizing risk For more information on IBM Global Financing visit ibm com financing 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 storag
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16. upgrades The DS4300 also supports online controller firmware upgrades to help provide better performance and functionality Events such as upgrades to support the latest version of DS4000 Storage Manager or to add services such as DS4000 Service Alert or the new DS4000 Alert Manager can gener ally be executed without stopping operations High performance design further enhanced by turbo option To meet growing needs for storage capacity and performance the DS4300 may be upgraded with the turbo option which includes DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 10 the base dual controller model includes version 9 10 version 9 10 for single controller The turbo option helps extend the high availability and scalability characteristics of the entry level DS4300 base model and may be added during the initial order or later as an upgrade Both the base model and turbo option are designed to offer high performance low cost storage and the flexibility to grow with your business The DS4800 uses advanced caching algorithms to help optimize disk per formance The base dual controller model is designed to deliver up to 45 000 cached Os per second and up to 400 MBps throughput in streaming disk reads Using DS4000 Storage Manager 9 10 the DS4300 Turbo is designed to perform up to 75 000 cached Os and provides up to 768 MBps throughput The DS4800 with fibre channel dual controller without Turbo can support up to 56 disk dr
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