IBM System Storage & TotalStorage TotalStorage DS4300 Dual Controller Bundle 60J, 10 HDDs
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1. 2TB and the SCSI 3 Persistent Reservation facility for enhanced server clustering applica tions These additional capabilities help the DS4300 Express to support larger storage environments Enhanced storage management capabilities The IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Express has several features designed to improve data management and storage system performance Using the DS4000 Storage Manager software administrators can partition the DS4300 Express into as many as 16 virtual servers with the turbo option they can create up to 64 partitions This capabil ity allows IT organizations to strategi cally allocate storage capacity helping to optimize the utilization of storage space and help reduce hardware and storage management costs Instead of purchasing multiple RAID controllers with their own dedicated disks and management organizations can attach multiple servers to one central sys tem the DS4300 Express which is designed to provide hardware failover with dual controllers and common management Other DS4300 Express features that can help enhance data management and protection 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 log2. s usability The DS4000 EXP710 Express switched disk expansion unit has an ESM embedded Fibre Channel loop switch The loop switch creates what is essen tially point to point Fibre Channel com munication allowing the ESMs and drives to operate as though they were on a private Fibre Channel arbitrated loop but with the performance and diagnostic advantages of Fibre Channel fabric A great advantage of the DS4000 EXP710 Express is a signifi cant reduction in the number of Fibre Channel nodes on the drive loops The DS4300 Express single controller offers up to 4 2TB of Fibre Channel FC physical disk storage The DS4300 Express dual controller offers up to 16 8TB of FC physical disk storage capacity with the attachment of three DS4000 EXP710 Express models The DS4300 Express Turbo offers up to 33 6TB of fibre channel physical disk storage capacity with the attachment of seven DS4000 EXP710 Express mod els Both the DS4300 Express and DS4300 Express Turbo offer up to 28TB of Serial ATA physical disk stor age capacity with the attachment of eight DS4000 EXP100 Express models This server is designed to help consoli date direct attached storage into a cen trally managed shared or storage area network SAN environment using fibre channel disk drives and the DS4000 EXP710 that attaches to the DS4300 Express and the DS4000 EXP710 Express with the DS4300 Express with Turbo feature With built in support for four Fi
3. A cost effective modular architecture to support e business on demand environments to grow as demands grow IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Express Model IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Express Model Highlights MH Offers optimized configurations priced attractively for small to medium sized businesses E Provides flexible upgrades and scalable options to facilitate growth with minimal business disruption EM Includes IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager to help centrally manage the DS4000 series to enhance scal ability supporting performance and capacity requirements I DEMAND EXPRESS PORTFOLIO BUILT FOR MID SIZED BUSINESS E Designed to help facilitate stor age consolidation in storage area network SAN network attached storage NAS and direct attach environments E Designed to deliver high per formance and productivity up to 768 MBps throughput with turbo option Wide range of storage consolidation and clustering applications The IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Express is designed to be an affordable scala ble storage server for storage consoli dation 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 stor age to grow as demands increase Autonomic features such as online firmware upgrades and DS4000 Service Alert also help enhance the system
4. BM 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 Express for interoperability with IBM servers as well as with many other brands of servers and switches Part of the DS4000 series The DS4300 Express 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 EXP710 Express disk enclosures and include many of the same high performance software and redundant hardware design fea tures as other DS4000 series systems The DS4300 Express dual controller models can also be used with the DS4000 EXP100 Express Serial ATA disk drive storage unit This helps address the requirements of various fixed content and data reference appli cations which require large amounts of storage capacity but do not have the high utilization and access characteris tics satisfied by DS4000 EXP710 Express Fibre Channel disk drive storage Scalability throughout the series Because the DS4300 Express is highly scalable up to 112 fibre channel with turbo option or 112 Serial ATA disk drives it can be upgraded from a work group SAN to an enterprise network storage system thereby providing flexi bility to grow with your business In addition by using the IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager software mul
5. P100 Express Expansion Units With turbo option 112 fibre channel disk drives using seven DS4000 EXP710 Express Expansion Units or 112 Serial ATA Disk drives using eight DS4000 EXP100 Express Expansion Units w Weight excludes disk drive modules dual controller models only For specific details and configuration availability please visit ibm com eserver express ull Copyright IBM Corporation 2005 IBM Systems and Technology Group 9000 Rita Road Tucson AZ 85744 Produced in the United States of America May 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
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7. bre Channel attached servers the need for additional switches is reduced or eliminated helping to make server clustering more cost effective The DS4300 Express single controller offers 4 2TB of fibre channel physical disk storage for entry level solutions The DS4300 Express is well suited for cost conscious workgroup SANs as well as small businesses and data cen ters Designed for open systems envi ronments this storage system helps provide heterogeneous platform sup port by including failover drivers for the Microsoft Windows 2000 Windows Server 2008 Windows 2000 Server 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 cer tified to ensure three simple features 1 Easy to install and deploy 2 Easy to manage 3 Competitively priced The IBM Express Portfolio of offerings are scalable and have the features and functionality you ll need to meet your technol ogy needs including hardware software services and financing Since they are priced just right for mid sized businesses you know you ll get more out of your investment and Windows 2000 Advance Server operating system and optional support for AIX except single controller Sun Solaris HP UX Novell NetWare and Linux operating systems The DS4300 Express is designed to interop erate with I
8. drives using 8 DS4000 EXP100 Express Expansion Units Two dual controller Turbo Dual redundant hot swappable for dual controller models Single power supply for single controller model 2 Gbps FC AL 19 inch industry standard rack Dual FlashCopy VolumeCopy Turbo FlashCopy VolumeCopy Enhanced Remote Mirroring Concurrent firmware updates Hot swappable disk bays Dynamic capacity expansion dynamic RAID level migration Dynamic volume expansion dynamic segment size migration Hot plug redundant cooling fans Redundant power dual controller IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager versions 8 3 8 4 9 10 and 9 12 Supported IBM FC switches and directors product numbers 2005 2006 2109 3534 2031 2032 2034 2042 2061 2062 and BladeCenter 100 127v AC or 200 240v AC 8 year parts and labor warranty next business day response upgradeable to 24x7 support with 4 hour response IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Express at a glance Physical characteristics Dimensions 132 3 mm H x 482 mm W x 597 mm D 5 2 in x 19 in x 24 in Weight 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 Express is suppo
9. er sion 9 10 version 9 10 for single con troller The turbo option helps extend the high availability and scalability char acteristics of the entry level DS4300 Express 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 DS4300 Express uses advanced caching algorithms to help optimize disk performance The base dual con troller model is designed to deliver up to 77 500 cached I Os per second and up to 400 MBps throughput in stream ing disk reads Using DS4000 Storage Manager 9 10 the DS4300 Turbo is designed to perform up to 77 500 cached Os and provides up to 768 MBps throughput The DS4300 Express with fibre chan nel dual controller without Turbo can support up to 56 disk drives when using three DS4000 EXP710 Express disk enclosures or 112 SATA disk drives when using eight EXP100 Express Expansion Units With the turbo option it can support up to 112 drives when using seven DS4000 EXP710 Express disk enclosures 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 Express can support up to 33 6TB of fibre channel and up to 64 storage partitions The DS4300 Express dual controller and DS4300 Express Turbo offer up to 28TB of Serial ATA physical disk
10. g High performance storage for the on demand world The features of the DS4300 Express including the turbo option further enhance the functionality flexibility and scalability of the DS4000 series As a high performance Fibre Channel stor age system the DS4300 Express 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 Express can not only help address the storage needs of today but also provide a base for con tinued growth to help meet future stor age requirements By combining these capabilities with a design focused on high reliability manageability and afford ability the DS4300 Express offers a cost effective storage system for the on demand world IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Express at a glance Characteristics Configurations RAID controller Cache Host interface Drive interface Supported drives Internal storage Internal disk bays RAID levels Storage partitions Maximum drives supported Disk drive ports Fans and power supplies Drive interface Rack support Optional copy services RAS features Management software SAN support Power requirements Warranty Available in the following pre defined configurations Single controller with no HDDs P N 1722 6LJ e DS4300 Express Midrange Disk e Short Wave SFP GBIC 2 e 1M F
11. ibre Optic Cable 2 Dual controller with no HDDs P N 1722 60K e DS4300 Express Midrange Disk e Short Wave SFP GBIC 2 e 1M Fibre Optic Cable 2 Dual controller with 10 HDDs P N 1722 60J e DS4300 Express Midrange Disk e Short Wave SFP GBIC 2 e 2GB FC 73 4 GB 10K DRIVE 10 e 1M Fibre Optic Cable 2 Turbo with no HDDs P N 1722 60L e DS4300 Express Midrange Disk e DS4300 Express Turbo Feature IPO e Short Wave SFP GBIC 2 e 1M Fibre Optic Cable 2 Single or dual active 2 Gbps 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 73 4 146 8GB and 300GB 10K rpm drives 36 4 73 4GB and 146 8GB 15K rpm drive 250GB 7200 rpm SATA dual controller Turbo feature Maximum 4 2TB Fourteen standard 0 1 8 S 10 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 EXP710 Express Expansion Units or 112 Serial ATA drives using 7 DS4000 EXP100 Express Expansion Units With turbo option 112 FC drives using 7 DS4000 EXP710 Express Expansion Units or 112 Serial ATA
12. ical 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 Express 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 e 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 DS4300 Express models can use a common pool of hot spare disk drives as a cost effective way of improving availability even if the DS4300 Express models are attached to different servers IT administrators can determine the number of drives to allocate as spares Additional tools to help manage storage The DS4300 Express is supported by a variety of IBM Tivoli software prod ucts 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 Express by enabling backup and stor age reporting The IBM TotalStorage Proven pro gram is de
13. isks and allocate logical drives to the appro priate 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 performance can be maintained on the SATA based drives Centralized administration through DS4000 Storage Manager The TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager software included with the DS4300 Express is designed to support centralized management of all local and networked DS4000 series systems DS4000 Storage Manager allows administrators to quickly configure and monitor storage from a Java technol ogy based Web browser interface It is also designed to allow them to cus tomize and change settings as well as configure new volumes define map pings handle routine maintenance and dynamically add new enclosures and capacity to existing volumes without 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 12 which is designed to support up to 256 logical volumes per storage partition array groups up to
14. rted only in rack installations With optional features up to three DS4000 EXP710 Express 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 EXP710 Express Expansion Units can be attached to the DS4300 Express enclosure for a maximum of 112 disk drives For more information Contact your IBM representative IBM Business Partner or visit ibm com eserver express 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 storage 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 Limi
15. signed to identify and test many of these products for interoper ability with the DS4300 Express 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 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 services are designed to enable the DS4300 Express 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 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 Express for the duration of the financing term For more information please visit ibm com financin
16. stor age capacity with the DS4000 EXP100 Express 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 Express to support a wider range of devices and thus is designed to provide greater interoperability The turbo option also helps extend the copy services capabilities of the DS4300 Express by including the VolumeCopy feature which is designed to enable full replica tion of logical volumes for enhanced data management 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 Fibre Channel and Serial ATA Disk Storage Expansion units The IBM TotalStorage DS4500 DS4400 and DS4300 Turbo Midrange Disk Systems have the capability to support attachment of both DS4000 EXP710 Express Fibre Channel Disk Expansion units and DS4000 EXP100 Express Serial ATA Disk Expansion units concur rently This feature requires the DS4500 DS4400 or DS4300 Turbo systems be upgraded to the DS4000 Storage Manager firmware 06 10 or later and host based code SM V9 10 or later With this feature you can create and manage distinct array groups that are built from either FC disks or SATA d
17. ted Warranty International Program License Agreement etc under which hey are provided References in this document to IBM products programs or services does not imply that BM intends to make such products programs or services available in all countries in which BM operates or does business Any reference o 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 Base model without turbo option provides up to 400 MBps throughput S Base model without turbo option supports up to 56 fibre channel disk drives using three DS4000 EXP710 Express Expansion Units or 112 Serial ATA disk drives using eight DS4000 EX
18. tiple DS4300 Express models can be combined to help address additional performance and capacity requirements further enhancing your scalability options Another scalability feature of the DS4300 Express is Dynamic Capacity Expansion DCE which is designed to provide the ability to add DS4000 EXP710 Express or DS4000 EXP100 Express enclosures to an existing DS4300 Express dual controller model or DS4000 EXP710 Express or EXP100 Express to a DS4300 Express with Turbo feature without stopping operations By adding these enclo sures the DS4300 Express can help bring unused storage online for a new host group or an existing volume to provide additional capacity on demand It is designed to allow upgrades to higher performing DS4000 series sys tems while keeping data intact helping to minimize disruptions during upgrades The DS4300 Express also supports online controller firmware upgrades to help provide better per formance and functionality Events such as upgrades to support the latest ver sion of DS4000 Storage Manager or to add services such as DS4000 Service Alert or the new DS4000 Alert Manager can generally be executed without stopping operations High performance design further enhanced by turbo option To meet growing needs for storage capacity and performance the DS4300 Express may be upgraded with the turbo option which includes DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 10 the base dual controller model includes v
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