IBM System Storage & TotalStorage DS4200 Express Model 7V
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1. the customer may need such laws IBM does no represent or warrant tha o take to comply with provide legal advice or its services or products will ensure thal compliance with any law For specific details and c the customer is in onfiguration availability please visit ibm com storage disk ds4200 ull Copyright IBM Corporation 2006 IBM Systems and Technology Group 9000 Rita Road Tucson AZ 85744 U S A Produced in the United States August 2006 All Rights Reserved IBM the IBM logo the e business logo e business on demand BladeCenter DS4000 Express Portfolio FlashCopy Lotus Notes Tivoli System Storage System Storage Proven 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 is a registered trademark 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 registered 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 I2. if the DS4200s are attached to different servers IT administrators can determine the number of drives to allo cate as spares Additional tools to help manage storage The DS4200 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 DS4200 by enabling backup and storage reporting The IBM System Storage Proven pro gram is designed to identify and test many of these products for interoper ability with the DS4200 and other IBM disk products Products in this pro gram have been tested to help reduce or eliminate time consuming installation and support issues For more information please visit ibm com storage proven Service and support The DS4200 has a three year 9x5 next business day upgradeable to 24x7 4 hour response hardware warranty Additional services for hardware instal lation DS4000 Storage Manager con figuration and advanced storage management are also available from IBM Global Services IGS IBM Support Line 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 DS4200 to quickly notify the IBM Support Center when the system det
3. partitions 112 SATA drives using 6 DS4000 EXP420 Expansion Units Dual redundant hot swappable 19 inch industry standard rack IBM System Storage DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 16 Supported IBM FC switches and directors product numbers 2005 2006 2109 3534 2031 2032 2034 2042 2061 and 2062 and IBM BladeCenter Three year parts and labor warranty 9x5 next business day upgradeable to 24x7 with four hour response Physical characteristics Dimensions Supported systems H 130 3 mm 5 13 in W 447 0 mm 17 6 in D 563 8 mm 22 2 in For a list of currently supported servers operating systems host bus adapters clustering applications and SAN switches and directors refer to the DS4200 Interoperability Matrix available at ibm com storage disk ds4200 For availability dates configuration options and attachment capabilities refer to ibm com storage disk ds4200 The DS4200 is supported only in rack installations Up to six DS4000 EXP420 Expansion Units can be attached to the DS4200 supporting a maximum of 112 drives For more information Contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner or visit ibm com storage disk ds4200 ibm com servers eserver express 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 stora
4. storage array requires as few as half the number of ports compared to a 2 Gbps storage array to deliver equal throughput This frees up ports in the SAN for each array On the host side if a server requires more than two 2 Gbps host bus adapters HBAs to attain the required performance a server should have at least two HBAs for availability then that number can be halved with 4 Gbps Fewer HBAs help lower the number of switch ports used Business Continuity The IBM System Storage DS4200 Disk Storage System offers the latest innova tion in storage infrastructure perform ance and management helping enable you to develop storage environments for unprecedented data availability High availability and reliability with a choice of multiple RAID levels and redundant hot swappable components the DS4200 Disk Storage System can help you maintain data availability and security Resiliency features The DS4200 Disk Storage System is designed to deliver powerful dynamic capabilities that help protect data and prevent failure not just respond and recover Disaster recovery Point in time copying with IBM FlashCopy VolumeCopy and remote mirroring with Enhanced Remote Mirroring can provide enterprise class disaster recovery strategies One of the key advantages of the DS4200 4 Gbps technology is that it is backward compatible with 2Gb and even 1Gb host side connections That means you need not replace your entire SAN w
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6. ID controllers with their own dedi cated disks and management organi zations can attach multiple servers to one central system the DS4200 which is designed to provide hardware failover with dual controllers and com mon management Other DS4200 features that can help enhance data management and protec tion include FlashCopy Dynamic Volume Expansion VolumeCopy and Enhanced Remote Mirroring The FlashCopy feature is designed to take point in time copies of logical vol umes which may be used for file restoration backups application testing or data mining Dynamic Volume Expansion is designed to allow administrators to resize logical volumes without disrupting users This feature can work well for applications with rapidly growing data requirements such as IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange The VolumeCopy feature is designed to provide full replication of one logical vol ume source to another target within the DS4200 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 Enhanced Remote Mirror consists of Global Mirror with Asynchronous Write order Consistency which is criti cal for mirroring multi LUN applications Global Copy with Asynchronous and Metro Mirror with Synchronous Multiple DS4200s can use a common pool of hot spare disk drives as a cost effective way to help improve availabil ity even
7. Scalable high capacity SATA disk storage solution IBM System Storage DS4200 Express Model 7V 4Gb Fibre Channel interface technology The IBM System Storage DS4200 disk storage system supports a high performance 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interface for increased host connectivity to deliver necessary bandwidth for high throughput applications Designed for data intensive applications that demand increased connectivity provided by four 4 Gbps host channels designed to pro vide up to 1600 MBps of sustained Highlights bandwidth for high throughput applica tions through the four channels directly E 4Gbps Fibre Channel interface Includes IBM System Storage ttached to the host servers or con technology DS4000 Storage Manager to nected to a Fibre Channel storage area help centrally manage the network SAN E Up to 1550 MBps bandwidth for DS4000 Series high throughput applications Designed to help lower your Total Cost of Ownership TCO The IBM System Storage DS4200 Disk Storage System offers customers a E Four total host channels with E SATA only hard disk drives dual controllers for increased supported connectivity SAN solution to take advantage of the Gq DEMAND EXPRESS PORTFOLIO BUILT FOR MID SIZED BUSINESS performance offered by 4 Gbps tech nology The IBM DS4200 4 Gbps SAN product is designed to offer up to 1600 MBps throughput with up to 121 500 IOPS input output per sec ond A 4 Gbps
8. Storage DS4000 Storage Manager software included with the DS4200 is designed to support central ized management of all local and net worked DS4000 series systems DS4000 Storage Manager is designed to allow administrators to quickly con figure and monitor storage from a Java technology based Web browser interface It is also designed to allow them to customize and change settings as well as configure new volumes define mappings handle some routine maintenance operations and dynami cally add new enclosures and capacity to existing volumes without interrupt ing user access to data Failover driv ers performance tuning routines and cluster support are also standard fea tures 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 Enhanced storage management capabilities The IBM System Storage DS4200 has several features designed to improve data management and storage system performance The DS4000 Storage Manager software is designed to allow administrators to partition the DS4200 into as many as 64 virtual servers This capability allows IT organizations to strategically allocate storage capacity helping to optimize the utilization of storage space and helping reduce hardware and storage management costs Instead of purchasing multiple RA
9. ects a problem helping to reduce or eliminate the need for the customer to place a service call This feature is capable of forwarding error alert mes sages via e mail from DS4000 Storage Manager to IBM to help expedite diag nosis 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 DS4200 for the duration of the financing term IBM pro vides faster simpler and more respon sive IT financing with highly competitive rates flexible terms predictable costs and fast approval process for DS4200 systems and associated software and services For more information please visit ibm com financing IBM System Storage DS4200 Express Model 7v 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 Management software SAN support Warranty 1814 7VA Dual active 2GB battery backed 4 host ports Fibre Channel FC Switched and FC Arbitrated Loop FC AL standard Auto sensing 1 Gbps 2 Gbps 4 Gbps 4 drive ports Fibre Channel FC Switched and FC Arbitrated Loop FC AL standard 4 Gbps Supports 4 Gbps capable SATA 7 200 rom 500 GB EV DDM i eS 1O 4 8 16 or 64 storage
10. er ence applications which require large amounts of storage capacity but do not have the high utilization and access characteristics satisfied by Fibre Channel disk drives Scalability throughout the series Because the DS4200 is highly scala ble supporting up to 112 Serial ATA disk drives it can be upgraded from a workgroup SAN to an enterprise net work storage system offering extraordi nary flexibility to grow with your business In addition by using the IBM System Storage DS4000 Storage Manager software multiple DS4200s can be combined to help address addi tional performance and capacity requirements further enhancing your scalability options Another scalability feature of the DS4200 is Dynamic Capacity Expansion DCE which is designed to provide the ability to add DS4000 EXP420 storage expansion units to an existing DS4200 without stopping oper ations By adding these enclosures the DS4200 can help bring unused storage online for a new host group or an exist ing volume to provide additional capac ity on demand The DS4200 also supports online con troller firmware upgrades to help pro vide 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 DS4000 Alert Manager can often be executed without stopping operations Centralized administration through DS4000 Storage Manager The System
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12. ing 1 Gbps or 2 Gbps infrastruc ture helping enable these environments to immediately benefit while helping to protect investment as the SANs transi tion to 4 Gbps The DS4200 storage system s four 4 Gbps drive connections support up to 112 disk drives with the attachment of six DS4000 EXP420 storage expan sion units making it a great choice for performance oriented or capacity oriented storage requirements The sys tem is designed to support over 56TB of Serial ATA SATA physical storage capacity and 2GB of physical cache memory 1GB per controller The DS4200 fits seamlessly into the DS4000 Series It runs the same robust yet intuitive storage manage ment software designed to allow maximum utilization of your storage capacity and complete control over your rapidly growing storage environment Wide range of storage consolidation and clustering applications The IBM System Storage DS4200 is designed to be an affordable scalable storage server for storage consolidation and clustering applications Its modular architecture which includes Dynamic Capacity Addition and Dynamic Volume Expansion can support highly variable on demand business 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 DS4200 is designed to help con solidate direct attached storage into a cen
13. ith 4Gb technology but you can add the new technology incrementally Of course 4Gb products will slow down to the 2Gb or 1Gb speed if they are connected but zoning can allow a rolling upgrade strategy with minimal disruption Not too big Not too small Designed for mid sized busi ness the IBM Express Portfolio of offerings is just right Each and every offering that s part of the IBM Express Portfolio is certified to ensure three simple features 1 Easy to install and deploy 2 Easy to manage 3 Competitively priced The IBM Express Portfolio includes offerings that are scala ble and have the features and functionality you ll need to meet your technology needs including hardware software services and financing Since they are priced just right for mid sized busi nesses you know you ll get more out of your investment Information Lifecycle Management ILM Information is the lifeblood of an on demand business With the DS4200 offering 4 Gbps technology the DS4000 Series can allow flexible access and a broad range of scale and performance options providing struc ture and context to your enterprise information As a result you have the freedom to build data management strategies that align with your evolving information demands The IBM DS4200 is designed to accommodate the changing value of data over time while maintaining data availability IBM System Storage DS4000 The IBM System St
14. orage DS4000 Series is well known for its exceptional performance robust functionality and unparalleled ease of use Building on this successful heritage the new DS4200 adds next generation 4 Gbps Fibre Channel FC technologies while retaining compatibility with 1 Gbps and 2 Gbps infrastructure The DS4000 Series proven storage technology is designed to allow you to create a sys tem to handle some of the most compute intensive workloads and provide robust functionality while main taining availability The DS4200 controller is a great fit for both transaction oriented and bandwidth intensive applications and is designed to easily satisfy some of the most performance hungry workloads The combination of the DS4200 Express Model 7V and the EXP420 can provide you with an affordable high capacity high performance SATA disk only storage solution This DS4000 series model is designed to provide an economical alternative storage solution that supports data archiving reference data and near line storage applications The DS4200 has four independent 4 Gbps FC host ports for direct attachment to host FC AL or fabric attachment to storage area networks FC SW Based on 4 Gbps FC tech nologies the DS4200 is designed to enable customers to prepare for the future while fully utilizing their present infrastructure It is designed with the ability to auto negotiate FC connection speeds allowing it to integrate into an exist
15. trally managed shared or storage area network SAN environment With built in support for four Fibre Channel attached servers the need for addi tional switches is reduced or eliminated helping to make server clustering more cost effective The 4 Gbps ready IBM System Storage EXP420 Storage Expansion Unit offers anew 16 bay disk enclosure for attach ment to the DS4200 with up to 8 ter abytes TB physical capacity per expansion unit using sixteen 500GB disk drives The EXP420 Storage Expansion Unit is designed to accom modate the new 4 Gbps capable 500GB SATA Enhanced Value Disk Drive Modules EV DDMs and contains redundant AC or DC power and cool ing modules and ESM interfaces The DS4000 EXP420 is available in a 19 inch rack mount package Each ESM CRU contains two 4 Gbps Fibre Channel host connections utilizing Small Form Factor Pluggable SFP connectors The DS4000 EXP420 ESM designs will support a 4 Gbps Fibre Channel loop The 500GB SATA II drive is a 3 Gbps drive that supports capabil ity to run at 4 Gbps connections speeds through the use of an interface card Part of the DS4000 Series The DS4200 is part of the DS4000 series which uses common storage management software and expansion enclosures The DS4200 can be used with the DS4000 EXP420 Expansion Unit utilizing Fibre Channel technology 500GB SATA disk drives are supported helping to address the requirements of various fixed content and data ref
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