The document introduces IBM's new DS8800 storage system. Key points:
- It provides faster performance, greater efficiency and scalability while maintaining reliability.
- Hardware upgrades include faster POWER6+ processors, higher density 2.5" drives, and more efficient airflow.
- It uses up to 50% less floor space but stores almost double the drives, lowering costs.
- Additional enhancements include simplified management, SSD options, and high availability features.
Storage Cloud and Spectrum deck 2017 June updateJoe Krotz
IBM offers several all-flash storage solutions as part of their IBM Spectrum Virtualize software defined storage portfolio, including the IBM FlashSystem V9000, which provides the highest performance and capacity. The FlashSystem A9000 is optimized for the lowest latency applications. IBM also offers the FlashSystem 900 as an entry-level all-flash solution. These solutions leverage IBM's FlashCore technology and provide scalability, integration with VMware, and improved flash management features.
The document provides an overview of Macroview Solution's data center virtualization offerings. It discusses their technology partners including VMware, Cisco, Citrix, Microsoft, and NetApp. It then summarizes their service catalog including virtualization, compute, storage, virtual desktop, enterprise mobility, disaster recovery, and multi-cloud capabilities. Specific storage solutions from NetApp are highlighted including all-flash arrays, snapshots, cloning, deduplication, encryption, quality of service, and data replication technologies.
Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform Performance Optimization wit...Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) flash technology helps increase performance and decrease total disk quantity and while lowering power, cooling and space costs. Attend this WebTech to learn more about how to optimize Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform performance using flash acceleration, SSD storage, and other technologies.
The document discusses application mobility across data centers using VMware VMotion, Cisco networking technologies, and NetApp storage solutions. It describes how VMotion can be used over long distances for business continuity and disaster recovery. A joint validation by VMware, Cisco and NetApp tested VMotion over 200km and found application performance degradation of less than 3%. Infrastructure requirements, configuration options, and best practices are provided to support long distance VMotion across data centers.
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is the only 3D scaling storage platform designed for all data types. It is the only storage architecture that flexibly adapts for performance, capacity and multivendor storage. Combined with unique Hitachi Command Suite management software, it transforms the data center.
IBM Spectrum Virtualize is a software defined storage solution that provides storage virtualization, data mobility, protection and copy services. It supports a wide range of storage platforms and can scale to manage over 400 storage arrays. The solution provides agility, efficiency and protection for applications and data.
Flash for the Real World – Separate Hype from RealityHitachi Vantara
Join us for a live webcast and hear Hu Yoshida, Chief Technology Officer of Hitachi Data Systems, discuss the real world criteria for making an effective decision when evaluating flash storage. With all the noise in the market it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction in order to evaluate the performance, efficiency and economic trade-offs for flash storage.
Specifically, you’ll learn how to determine if flash storage will help you:
Actually achieve the performance you need as you compare technology options.
Realize efficiency gains that extend beyond the promise of flash performance.
Make the economic case for real-world business decisions before taking the leap.
Storage Cloud and Spectrum deck 2017 June updateJoe Krotz
IBM offers several all-flash storage solutions as part of their IBM Spectrum Virtualize software defined storage portfolio, including the IBM FlashSystem V9000, which provides the highest performance and capacity. The FlashSystem A9000 is optimized for the lowest latency applications. IBM also offers the FlashSystem 900 as an entry-level all-flash solution. These solutions leverage IBM's FlashCore technology and provide scalability, integration with VMware, and improved flash management features.
The document provides an overview of Macroview Solution's data center virtualization offerings. It discusses their technology partners including VMware, Cisco, Citrix, Microsoft, and NetApp. It then summarizes their service catalog including virtualization, compute, storage, virtual desktop, enterprise mobility, disaster recovery, and multi-cloud capabilities. Specific storage solutions from NetApp are highlighted including all-flash arrays, snapshots, cloning, deduplication, encryption, quality of service, and data replication technologies.
Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform Performance Optimization wit...Hitachi Vantara
Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) flash technology helps increase performance and decrease total disk quantity and while lowering power, cooling and space costs. Attend this WebTech to learn more about how to optimize Hitachi Unified Storage and Hitachi NAS Platform performance using flash acceleration, SSD storage, and other technologies.
The document discusses application mobility across data centers using VMware VMotion, Cisco networking technologies, and NetApp storage solutions. It describes how VMotion can be used over long distances for business continuity and disaster recovery. A joint validation by VMware, Cisco and NetApp tested VMotion over 200km and found application performance degradation of less than 3%. Infrastructure requirements, configuration options, and best practices are provided to support long distance VMotion across data centers.
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform is the only 3D scaling storage platform designed for all data types. It is the only storage architecture that flexibly adapts for performance, capacity and multivendor storage. Combined with unique Hitachi Command Suite management software, it transforms the data center.
IBM Spectrum Virtualize is a software defined storage solution that provides storage virtualization, data mobility, protection and copy services. It supports a wide range of storage platforms and can scale to manage over 400 storage arrays. The solution provides agility, efficiency and protection for applications and data.
Flash for the Real World – Separate Hype from RealityHitachi Vantara
Join us for a live webcast and hear Hu Yoshida, Chief Technology Officer of Hitachi Data Systems, discuss the real world criteria for making an effective decision when evaluating flash storage. With all the noise in the market it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction in order to evaluate the performance, efficiency and economic trade-offs for flash storage.
Specifically, you’ll learn how to determine if flash storage will help you:
Actually achieve the performance you need as you compare technology options.
Realize efficiency gains that extend beyond the promise of flash performance.
Make the economic case for real-world business decisions before taking the leap.
Blue line Supermicro Server Building Block SolutionsBlue Line
This document provides information on Supermicro's next generation serverboard and embedded solutions using Intel's Ivy Bridge and Haswell architectures. It summarizes various serverboards, chassis, and embedded boards that provide improved performance up to 40%, lower power consumption, support for the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors with up to 12 cores, SAS 3.0 (12Gbps), PCI-E 3.0, and up to 1.5TB of DDR3 memory. Options include datacenter optimized, mainstream, workstation, and embedded form factors.
Storage Spectrum and Cloud deck late 2016Joe Krotz
IBM Spectrum Storage is a family of storage management and optimization software solutions that help accelerate, optimize, virtualize and streamline storage environments. It includes products like IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Control, IBM Spectrum Archive, IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Accelerate. A new IBM Spectrum Storage Suite offers unlimited access to all software solutions with licensing on a per-TB basis for easy pricing. IBM Spectrum solutions work with IBM storage platforms like Storwize and XIV arrays to provide efficient, scalable storage for analytics, big data and cloud environments.
Gain quick, easy, and flexible handling of data with a comprehensive family of SAP HANA storage solutions. IBM Storage delivers the flexibility and performance you need for your SAP applications. Discover fast, proven TDI-certified IBM Storage systems for your SAP deployment.
The IBM Storwize V3700 is an efficient, high-performing virtualized storage system for small and medium businesses. It offers advanced software capabilities, up to 120 drives of storage capacity in a compact 2U frame, and is designed for common storage network technologies. The system provides efficient, entry-level virtualized storage specifically for small and midsize businesses and VMware environments through features like thin provisioning, migration, and VAAI integration.
The document discusses HP's strategy to provide IT infrastructure as a service (ITaaS). It outlines HP's portfolio of converged storage solutions including 3PAR, StoreOnce, StoreAll, and StoreVirtual. These solutions provide scalable, software-defined storage that can be deployed from small to large organizations to enable private and public cloud storage services. HP storage solutions are designed to improve efficiency, performance and manageability while reducing costs compared to traditional SAN solutions.
The document discusses several trends in data storage technologies, including increased adoption of cloud computing, flash solid state drives, thin provisioning, deduplication, continuous data protection (CDP), and virtualization. It also notes that storage infrastructure is often understaffed compared to other IT domains, and provides insights into the Israeli market for email archiving, backup solutions, and typical storage prices across industries.
The document discusses IBM's announcement of its new N6200 series storage systems. Key points include:
- The N6200 series scales to nearly 1.2PB and has extra PCIe slots for connectivity to adapt to growing storage workloads.
- It offers simplified software, improved performance, flexibility and scalability at a lower total cost of ownership than previous IBM storage systems.
- The N6200 provides data protection, storage efficiency, and high availability features as well as flexible licensing options.
Storage cloud and spectrum update February 2016Joe Krotz
IBM offers a portfolio of cloud-enabled storage solutions called IBM Spectrum Storage. It provides software-defined, massively scalable storage solutions that are efficient, cloud-agile, enterprise-proven, and self-optimizing. IBM Spectrum Storage includes products for storage management, data protection, virtualization, archiving, acceleration, and scaling.
The document discusses EMC Isilon scale-out NAS storage. Key points include: Isilon uses a scale-out architecture with a single file system that scales from 18TB to 20PB across nodes; it features automated tiering between performance and capacity tiers, high performance and utilization, and easy management through a single interface; the operating system OneFS provides a unified file system across nodes without partitioning.
Storage Cloud and Spectrum deck March 2016Joe Krotz
IBM Spectrum Storage is a family of storage management and optimization software solutions that help accelerate, optimize, virtualize and streamline storage environments. The document introduces IBM Spectrum Storage Suite, which provides unlimited access to all IBM Spectrum Storage software with licensing on a per-TB basis. This allows pricing to be predictable as capacity grows. The suite is suited for organizations starting with software-defined storage as well as those expanding existing infrastructures.
This eight page technical report documents a series of tests that demonstrate the benefits of using large amounts of server memory for a large-scale Decision Support System workload on an eX5 platform
NetApp enterprise All Flash Storage
This presentation provides the key messages and differentiation, value propositions, and promotional programs for AFF.
The document summarizes IBM's FlashSystem portfolio of all-flash storage solutions. It highlights several IBM FlashSystem products, including the FlashSystem 900, FlashSystem A9000, FlashSystem V9000, and Storwize V7000F. It discusses the performance, scalability, and data protection capabilities of these solutions. It also provides information on IBM's flash core technology, real-time compression, and software-defined storage offerings.
This document discusses DDN's optimization of Lustre and GPFS file systems. It provides an overview of DDN's extensive testing and benchmarking facilities and describes their long involvement with the Lustre file system, including major contributions to the open source code. It also presents performance results demonstrating the benefits of various DDN technologies and configurations.
Learn about IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M4. IBM System x iDataPlex is an innovative data center solution that maximizes performance and optimizes energy and space efficiency. The iDataPlex solution provides customers with outstanding energy and cooling efficiency, multi-rack level manageability, complete flexibility in configuration, and minimal deployment effort. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210744055/IBM-System-x-iDataPlex-dx360-M4
GSc is a hybrid cloud storage appliance from Infortrend that allows enterprises to easily integrate local and cloud storage. It supports file and block-level access to both local and cloud data through common protocols without needing to modify existing IT environments or applications. The GSc provides benefits like faster access to cloud data through intelligent caching, secure encryption of data both locally and in the cloud, replication between local and cloud storage for backup and disaster recovery, and integration with archiving to the cloud to reduce bandwidth and storage costs.
EqualLogic is changing how people experience storage by delivering dynamic virtual storage solutions that address changing business needs in real time at a reasonable cost. The presentation covers how EqualLogic avoids disruptions and underutilization compared to traditional storage, provides high performance for applications, and includes comprehensive data management features like snapshots, cloning and replication at no additional cost. It also demonstrates how EqualLogic integrates with virtualization platforms and simplifies management.
IBM DS8880 and IBM Z - Integrated by DesignStefan Lein
This Presentation shows the strength of the IBM DS8880 Enterprise Storage Platform with special emphasis on the System Z integration capabilities. December 2017
The document discusses 3PAR storage solutions and their benefits for virtualized environments using VMware. 3PAR offers thin provisioning, large volume sizes, and fine-grained virtualization which help address issues with ESX servers like random I/O stresses, time-consuming management as servers consolidate, and preference for large storage volumes. 3PAR solutions provide benefits like reduced storage administration, increased capacity utilization, and support for high server consolidation ratios.
Blue line Supermicro Server Building Block SolutionsBlue Line
This document provides information on Supermicro's next generation serverboard and embedded solutions using Intel's Ivy Bridge and Haswell architectures. It summarizes various serverboards, chassis, and embedded boards that provide improved performance up to 40%, lower power consumption, support for the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors with up to 12 cores, SAS 3.0 (12Gbps), PCI-E 3.0, and up to 1.5TB of DDR3 memory. Options include datacenter optimized, mainstream, workstation, and embedded form factors.
Storage Spectrum and Cloud deck late 2016Joe Krotz
IBM Spectrum Storage is a family of storage management and optimization software solutions that help accelerate, optimize, virtualize and streamline storage environments. It includes products like IBM Spectrum Protect, IBM Spectrum Control, IBM Spectrum Archive, IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Accelerate. A new IBM Spectrum Storage Suite offers unlimited access to all software solutions with licensing on a per-TB basis for easy pricing. IBM Spectrum solutions work with IBM storage platforms like Storwize and XIV arrays to provide efficient, scalable storage for analytics, big data and cloud environments.
Gain quick, easy, and flexible handling of data with a comprehensive family of SAP HANA storage solutions. IBM Storage delivers the flexibility and performance you need for your SAP applications. Discover fast, proven TDI-certified IBM Storage systems for your SAP deployment.
The IBM Storwize V3700 is an efficient, high-performing virtualized storage system for small and medium businesses. It offers advanced software capabilities, up to 120 drives of storage capacity in a compact 2U frame, and is designed for common storage network technologies. The system provides efficient, entry-level virtualized storage specifically for small and midsize businesses and VMware environments through features like thin provisioning, migration, and VAAI integration.
The document discusses HP's strategy to provide IT infrastructure as a service (ITaaS). It outlines HP's portfolio of converged storage solutions including 3PAR, StoreOnce, StoreAll, and StoreVirtual. These solutions provide scalable, software-defined storage that can be deployed from small to large organizations to enable private and public cloud storage services. HP storage solutions are designed to improve efficiency, performance and manageability while reducing costs compared to traditional SAN solutions.
The document discusses several trends in data storage technologies, including increased adoption of cloud computing, flash solid state drives, thin provisioning, deduplication, continuous data protection (CDP), and virtualization. It also notes that storage infrastructure is often understaffed compared to other IT domains, and provides insights into the Israeli market for email archiving, backup solutions, and typical storage prices across industries.
The document discusses IBM's announcement of its new N6200 series storage systems. Key points include:
- The N6200 series scales to nearly 1.2PB and has extra PCIe slots for connectivity to adapt to growing storage workloads.
- It offers simplified software, improved performance, flexibility and scalability at a lower total cost of ownership than previous IBM storage systems.
- The N6200 provides data protection, storage efficiency, and high availability features as well as flexible licensing options.
Storage cloud and spectrum update February 2016Joe Krotz
IBM offers a portfolio of cloud-enabled storage solutions called IBM Spectrum Storage. It provides software-defined, massively scalable storage solutions that are efficient, cloud-agile, enterprise-proven, and self-optimizing. IBM Spectrum Storage includes products for storage management, data protection, virtualization, archiving, acceleration, and scaling.
The document discusses EMC Isilon scale-out NAS storage. Key points include: Isilon uses a scale-out architecture with a single file system that scales from 18TB to 20PB across nodes; it features automated tiering between performance and capacity tiers, high performance and utilization, and easy management through a single interface; the operating system OneFS provides a unified file system across nodes without partitioning.
Storage Cloud and Spectrum deck March 2016Joe Krotz
IBM Spectrum Storage is a family of storage management and optimization software solutions that help accelerate, optimize, virtualize and streamline storage environments. The document introduces IBM Spectrum Storage Suite, which provides unlimited access to all IBM Spectrum Storage software with licensing on a per-TB basis. This allows pricing to be predictable as capacity grows. The suite is suited for organizations starting with software-defined storage as well as those expanding existing infrastructures.
This eight page technical report documents a series of tests that demonstrate the benefits of using large amounts of server memory for a large-scale Decision Support System workload on an eX5 platform
NetApp enterprise All Flash Storage
This presentation provides the key messages and differentiation, value propositions, and promotional programs for AFF.
The document summarizes IBM's FlashSystem portfolio of all-flash storage solutions. It highlights several IBM FlashSystem products, including the FlashSystem 900, FlashSystem A9000, FlashSystem V9000, and Storwize V7000F. It discusses the performance, scalability, and data protection capabilities of these solutions. It also provides information on IBM's flash core technology, real-time compression, and software-defined storage offerings.
This document discusses DDN's optimization of Lustre and GPFS file systems. It provides an overview of DDN's extensive testing and benchmarking facilities and describes their long involvement with the Lustre file system, including major contributions to the open source code. It also presents performance results demonstrating the benefits of various DDN technologies and configurations.
Learn about IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M4. IBM System x iDataPlex is an innovative data center solution that maximizes performance and optimizes energy and space efficiency. The iDataPlex solution provides customers with outstanding energy and cooling efficiency, multi-rack level manageability, complete flexibility in configuration, and minimal deployment effort. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210744055/IBM-System-x-iDataPlex-dx360-M4
GSc is a hybrid cloud storage appliance from Infortrend that allows enterprises to easily integrate local and cloud storage. It supports file and block-level access to both local and cloud data through common protocols without needing to modify existing IT environments or applications. The GSc provides benefits like faster access to cloud data through intelligent caching, secure encryption of data both locally and in the cloud, replication between local and cloud storage for backup and disaster recovery, and integration with archiving to the cloud to reduce bandwidth and storage costs.
EqualLogic is changing how people experience storage by delivering dynamic virtual storage solutions that address changing business needs in real time at a reasonable cost. The presentation covers how EqualLogic avoids disruptions and underutilization compared to traditional storage, provides high performance for applications, and includes comprehensive data management features like snapshots, cloning and replication at no additional cost. It also demonstrates how EqualLogic integrates with virtualization platforms and simplifies management.
IBM DS8880 and IBM Z - Integrated by DesignStefan Lein
This Presentation shows the strength of the IBM DS8880 Enterprise Storage Platform with special emphasis on the System Z integration capabilities. December 2017
The document discusses 3PAR storage solutions and their benefits for virtualized environments using VMware. 3PAR offers thin provisioning, large volume sizes, and fine-grained virtualization which help address issues with ESX servers like random I/O stresses, time-consuming management as servers consolidate, and preference for large storage volumes. 3PAR solutions provide benefits like reduced storage administration, increased capacity utilization, and support for high server consolidation ratios.
NetApp provides an enterprise-grade all-flash storage solution called AFF (All Flash FAS) that delivers flash performance and data services. SolidFire is another all-flash storage platform in NetApp's portfolio that is designed for large-scale infrastructure and can guarantee performance to thousands of applications through its quality of service features. The document discusses the benefits of flash storage and how NetApp's solutions help customers transform their data centers and lower costs through flash innovation like inline data compaction in ONTAP 9.
Virtualization: Doing it right the first time to avoid costly ...webhostingguy
The document discusses virtualization strategies and storage technologies for virtual environments. It recommends:
1) Using new storage technologies like AutoMAID to reduce storage power by 60% and space by 62% while maintaining performance.
2) Adopting denser and more efficient storage hardware to reduce components by 65% and management overhead by 66%.
3) Applying these strategies across single and multiple ESX server environments with VMotion and disaster recovery to optimize costs and infrastructure.
Virtualization: Doing it right the first time to avoid costly ...webhostingguy
The document discusses virtualization strategies and storage technologies for virtual environments. It recommends:
1) Using new storage technologies like AutoMAID to reduce storage power usage by up to 60% while maintaining performance.
2) Adopting dense storage arrays that can reduce storage space needs by 62% and hardware components by 65% through consolidation.
3) Simplifying storage management through technologies that reduce the number of systems to manage by 66%.
4) Applying these new storage strategies in virtual environments ranging from single ESX servers to multi-site disaster recovery configurations.
Virtualization: Doing it right the first time to avoid costly ...webhostingguy
The document discusses virtualization strategies and storage technologies for virtual environments. It recommends:
1) Using new storage technologies like AutoMAID to reduce storage power usage by up to 60% while maintaining performance.
2) Adopting dense storage arrays that can store 42TB in 4U of rack space to reduce storage space needs by 62% and infrastructure costs by 85%.
3) Implementing simplified storage systems with fewer components to reduce hardware costs by 65% and management needs by 66%.
4) Applying these new storage technologies in virtual environments ranging from single ESX servers to multi-site disaster recovery configurations.
Virtualization: Doing it right the first time to avoid costly ...webhostingguy
The document discusses virtualization strategies and storage technologies for virtual environments. It recommends:
1) Using new storage technologies like AutoMAID to reduce storage power usage by up to 60% while maintaining performance.
2) Adopting dense storage arrays that can store 42TB in 4U of rack space to reduce storage space needs by 62% and infrastructure costs by 85%.
3) Implementing simplified storage systems with fewer components to reduce hardware costs by 65% and management efforts by 66%.
4) Applying these new storage technologies in virtual environments ranging from single ESX servers to multi-site disaster recovery configurations.
Virtualization: Doing it right the first time to avoid costly ...webhostingguy
The document discusses virtualization strategies and storage technologies for virtual environments. It recommends:
1) Using new storage technologies like AutoMAID to reduce storage power usage by up to 60% while maintaining performance.
2) Adopting dense storage arrays that can store 84TB in a single 4U chassis to reduce storage space by 62% and infrastructure costs by 85%.
3) Implementing simplified storage systems with fewer components to reduce hardware costs by 65% and management efforts by 66%.
4) Applying these new storage technologies in virtual environments ranging from single ESX servers to multi-site disaster recovery configurations.
StorPool Storage presenting at Storage Field Day 25pdfStorPool Storage
Storage Field Day 25 took place on March 22–23, 2023, and gathered industry leaders and storage analysts in an exciting 2-day meet up with technical presentations. StorPool Storage participated in the event, and our team showcased our storage platform, its capabilities, and improvements.
Learn more: Watch now the recording of the presentation: https://storpool.com/blog/storpool-presents-at-storage-field-day-25-video-recordings
Delivering Virtualization 2.0 with scalable, easy-to-install, easy-to-manage solution. Save money and improve performance by combining server and storage virtualization.
IBM eX5 Workload Optimized x86 ServersCliff Kinard
Learn about how these IBM eX5 servers are purposely built for workloads. This presentation shows how IBM's pre-configured solutions can reduce deployment time from months to weeks while saving clients over $100,000 in installation and setup costs.
This document discusses increasing datacenter efficiency with Fujitsu and NetApp technologies. It provides an overview of Fujitsu's PRIMERGY servers and storage solutions, such as the PRIMERGY BX400 data center in a box. It also summarizes NetApp's storage portfolio including FAS storage systems, V-Series controllers, and data efficiency technologies like deduplication, thin provisioning, snapshots, and thin replication. Case studies on BT show how NetApp helped consolidate servers, improve utilization, reduce power consumption, and improve backup times.
Learn about the IBM FlashSystem 720 and IBM FlashSystem 820. IBM FlashSystem 720 and IBM FlashSystem 820 storage systems deliver high performance, efficiency, and reliability for shared enterprise storage environments, helping clients around the world address performance issues with their most important applications and infrastructure. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
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The document discusses IBM's acquisition of Blade Network Technologies and how it will help IBM provide improved networking solutions as part of their systems portfolio. It then provides an overview of IBM's eX5 rack mountable server and blade server systems, highlighting their performance, scalability, and suitability for different workloads. Specific blade and rack server models are described and positioning is discussed.
The document provides an overview of the IBM DS8000 storage system and its capabilities for data protection and cyber resiliency. Some key points:
- The DS8000 offers balanced performance, reliability, scalability, and flexibility for critical enterprise storage needs.
- It provides modern data protection features like data encryption, thin provisioning, and IBM Database Protection.
- The system is designed for cyber resiliency with functions that optimize caching, prefetching, and data placement to improve I/O performance.
The document presents the Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage solution. It discusses the PS Series arrays which provide reliable hardware, easy setup and management software, and on-demand scalability. The PS Series offers comprehensive data management features at no additional cost. It also details how the PS Series provides a virtualized SAN that can scale out performance and capacity through adding additional arrays.
This document discusses IBM Spectrum Virtualize 101 and IBM Spectrum Storage solutions. It provides an overview of software defined storage and IBM Spectrum Virtualize, describing how it achieves storage virtualization and mobility. It also provides details on the new IBM Spectrum Virtualize DH8 hardware platform, including its performance improvements over previous platforms and support for compression acceleration.
Presentation to dm as november 2007 with dynamic provisioning informationxKinAnx
This document provides updates on the ST9900 product line and program from Ken Ow-Wing. It includes details on microcode releases, new features like dynamic provisioning support, and performance enhancements. It also discusses tools now available, pre-sales performance assistance, and competition from EMC and IBM storage arrays.
This IBM Redpaper provides a brief overview of OpenStack and a basic familiarity of its usage with the IBM XIV Storage System Gen3. The illustration scenario that is presented uses the OpenStack Folsom release implementation IaaS with Ubuntu Linux servers and the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
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Learn how all flash needs end to end Storage efficiency. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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Learn about vSphere Storage API for Array Integration on the IBM Storwize family. IBM Storwize V7000 Unified combines the block storage capabilities of Storwize V7000 with file storage capabilities into a single system for greater ease of management and efficiency. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
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Learn about IBM FlashSystem 840 and its complete product specification in this Redbook. FlashSystem 840 provides scalable performance for the most demanding enterprise class applications. IBM FlashSystem 840 accelerates response times with IBM MicroLatency to enable faster decision making. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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Learn about the IBM System x3250 M5,.The x3250 M5 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs, increase energy availability, and contribute to a green environment, energy-efficient planar components help lower operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210746104/IBM-System-x3250-M5
This Redbook talks about the product specification of IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4. The NeXtScale nx360 M4 server provides a dense, flexible solution with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The half-wide, dual-socket NeXtScale nx360 M4 server is designed for data centers that require high performance but are constrained by floor space. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210745680/IBM-NeXtScale-nx360-M4
The IBM System x3650 M4 HD is a (1) 2-socket 2U rack-optimized server that supports up to 32 internal drives and features an innovative design for optimal performance, uptime, and dense storage. It offers (2) excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability for improved business environments. The server is (3) designed for easy deployment, integration, service, and management.
Here are the product specification for IBM System x3300 M4. This product can be managed remotely.The x3300 M4 server contains IBM IMM2, which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and an alerting function. The IMM2 lights LEDs to help you diagnose the problem, records the error in the event log, and alerts you to the problem. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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The IBM System x3500 M4 server provides powerful and scalable performance for business applications in an energy efficient tower or rack design. It features the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 or E5-2600 processors with up to 24 cores, 768GB RAM, 32 hard drives, and 8 PCIe slots. Comprehensive systems management tools and redundant components help ensure high availability, while its small footprint and 80 Plus Platinum power supplies reduce data center costs.
Learn about system specification for IBM System x3550 M4. The x3550 M4 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs. Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with up to 12-core processors, up to 30 MB of L3 cache, and up to two 8 GT/s QPI interconnect links. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Learn about IBM System x3650 M4. The x3650 M4 is an outstanding 2U two-socket business-critical server, offering improved performance and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management capability. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210741926/IBM-System-x3650-M4
Learn about the product specification of IBM System x3500 M3. System x3500 M3 has an energy-efficient design which works in conjunction with the IMM to govern fan rotation based on the readings that it delivers. This saves money under normal conditions because the fans do not have to spin at high speed. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210741626/IBM-System-x3500-M3
Learn about IBM System x3400 M3. The x3400 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs, x3400 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements with these features. Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3400 M3. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System 3250 M3 which is a single-socket server that offers new levels of performance and flexibility
to help you respond quickly to changing business demands. Cost-effective and compact, it is well suited to small to mid-sized businesses, as well as large enterprises. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210740347/IBM-System-x3250-M3
Learn about IBM System x3200 M3 and its specifications. The System x3200 M3 features easy installation and management with a rich set of options for hard disk drives and memory. The efficient design helps to save energy and provide a better work environment with less heat and noise. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210739508/IBM-System-x3200-M3
Learn about the configuration of IBM PowerVC. IBM PowerVC is built on OpenStack that controls large pools of server, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. IBM Power Virtualization Center provides security services that support a secure environment. Installation requires just 20 minutes to get a virtual machine up and running. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
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1. IBM System Storage DS8800 (Release 6.0) October, 2010 Client Presentation October 7, 2010 Allen Marin, IBM Enterprise Disk Marketing
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3. Storage Efficiency Getting the most from your storage resources Virtualized Storage Tiered Storage Consolidated Storage Efficiently use solid state disk to increase performance up to 300% on critical apps Reduce costs by migrating less critical data to less expensive media Build out an automated tiered storage architecture to maximize performance and reduce operating expenses Consolidate storage to reduce administrative costs and improve cycle time Increase utilization of existing storage by up to 30% Reduce TCO up to 66% by deploying automated, virtualized storage Quickly provision storage, support virtualized servers and increase flexibility Scale out storage to manage billions of files from a single, consolidated NAS system Scale up storage with systems that can scale to store petabytes of structured data
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5. 4 th -generation DS8000 enterprise disk system Binary Compatibility 2004 2009 POWER5 POWER6 The IBM POWER processor has been behind the success of IBM enterprise storage beginning with the Enterprise Storage Server in 1999 2010 POWER6+ DS8800 DS8000 DS8700 2006 POWER5+ DS8000 Turbo DS8800 builds on a market-proven, reliable code base!
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13. Performance comparison across DS8000 models Open Results Summary DS8800 Full Box Results – 96x RAID5 Arrays 768x 15K RPM HDDs, 16x SSDs, 8x DA Pair, 16x HA w/ 32x 8Gb ports DS8300 DS8700 DS8800 % increase (vs. DS8300) Seq Read GBps 3.9 9.7 11.5 19% (195%) Seq Write GBps 2.2 4.7 6.7 43% (205%) Database Open 4KB K IOps 165 191 196 3% (19%) 4K Read Miss 4KB K IOps 111 137 160 17% (44%) 4K Read Hits 4KB K IOps 425 523 530 1% (25%) 4K Write Hits 4KB K IOps 164 203 222 9% (35%) DS8800 Component Results – 4port HA; RAID5 arrays DS8700 DS8800 % increase HA 4KB Read 4KB K IOps 78 190 144% HA 4KB Write 4KB K IOps 42 110 162% HA 64KB Read GBps .53 2.53 377% HA 64KB Write GBps .40 1.42 255% DA Pair 4KB Read 4KB K IOps 53 77 45% DA Pair 4KB Write 4KB K IOps 19 32 68% DA Pair 64KB Read GBps 1.2 3.2 167% DA Pair 64KB Write GBps 0.77 2.2 186%
18. Announcement Summary The DS8800 announcement introduces the most advanced model in our high-end disk portfolio with another increase in performance, greatly improved energy efficiency, and almost double the capacity in the same footprint. This new model not only offers the ability to process information faster and more efficiently, it also builds on the DS8000’s unrivaled reputation for reliability and investment protection by maintaining its market-proven, IBM POWER-based architecture over generations of new models.
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Editor's Notes
Here are the main topics we’ll cover today. We’ll begin by introducing the new DS8800 model and talk about what’s new and what’s not new about it. Then we’ll give you an idea about the various benefits this new model offers, which are mostly centered around space efficiency and energy efficiency, and, of course, performance. Then, we have a couple other enhancements to talk about on both the DS8800 and DS8700. Then, we’ve reserved some time to share with you some new storage software enhancements in our storage management and encryption key management offerings.
Improving Storage Efficiency is, by far, the best way IBM can help clients manage information growth. In real world examples, both inside IBM and with actual client environments, IBM has demonstrated the ability to reduce physical storage requirements up to 50% . But it’s not just about cost reductions. As recessionary times end, more clients are looking for ways to enable future growth. Capital expenses that help lower long term operating expenses are more interesting now, as clients have more to invest. Investments in automated tiered storage , consolidated scale-out storage , and virtualized storage are valuable because they allow clients to manage growth without complexity. IBM offers more storage tier options for more server platforms than most other major vendors, more consolidation options, and proven storage virtualization solutions. You can see some of the highlights in the boxes on the bottom of the slide.
OK. Here’s the quick summary of what we’re introducing. This new DS8800 model is the fastest, most efficient high-end disk we’ve ever delivered. We’ve given it almost a complete overhaul with new hardware throughout the system. We’ve upgraded the controller from the POWER6 to the POWER6+ processors, and we’ve got faster adapters on the front end and the back end. And probably the most important change is the migration to new small-form-factor enterprise drives, which enable us to offer many more drives in the same footprint with a much lower energy profile. And, of course, we continue to focus on the reliability and high availability of the system, which, along with pure, high-end performance, is one of the most important attributes of any high-end system. The system was announced on October 7 and will be generally available on November 19.
Before we get into the details of what’s new, let me point out that the DS8800 represents the 4 th generation of our flagship disk system, which we introduced in 2004… after several generations of the ESS, or Shark, as many still refer to it. All of these generations were built on the IBM POWER processor architecture, which has enjoyed great success because of its continuous and incremental increase in performance, reliability, scalability, etc. This market-proven legacy has been a big reason the DS8000 has such a high reliability profile and reputation. In fact, the DS8800 has over 85% of the same microcode as the DS8700, even with all the HW updates that we’ve included, which is a real testament to the stability of our microcode. We introduced the DS8700 about a year ago, and the uptake was beyond our expectations. While we don’t publish sales results at the product level, this particular model, or the success of the 8700 has been driven by the performance and the core functionality and, from what our customers tell us, the bullet-proof reliability. You can see on the chart how the DS8000 has benefitted from basing its architecture on the market-proven IBM POWER architecture with the binary compatibility across generations, and we expect this to continue through more generations. LET’S GO TO SLIDE 5
The introduction of this new DS8800 model pretty much marks the evolution away from the earlier generations of DS8300, so we now have two distinct models in the portfolio based on the POWER6 processor family… the DS8700 and the DS8800. If you remember back when we introduced the DS8700, in addition to the POWER6 processor and PCIe internal fabric, we made it much easier for the system to scale up from the smallest configuration to the largest configuration non-disruptively. The DS8800 also has this capability, so both modes can scale up as the clients’ needs grow. As they add new workloads through consolidation and their existing workloads grow, clients can scale both models from the 2-way to the 4-way model non-disruptively, as well as add more capacity and frames and memory… all non-disruptively. Another difference between the two base models is that we’ve upgrade both the host adapters and RAID adapters to 8Gb/s, so we’ve got 8Gb on the front and the back ends. And probably the biggest difference is the introduction of the 2.5”, small-form-factor enterprise SAS-2 drives, which replace the 3.5” drives high-end systems have been using for years. Now, while the DS8800 has all of these hardware upgrades, we’re still expecting clients to continue buying the DS8700s, at least in the near term, since it’s going to be the more cost-effective and field-proven system since we’re pricing it a bit lower than the new model. LET’S MOVE TO SLIDE 6
OK. If there’s one slide that captures what this release is about, this is it. [BUILD SLIDE with the last 3 bullets] We’ve got a new 4 th -generation DS8000 system with all new HW inside… BUT this new hardware is built on the same proven architecture that has served us well for over 10 years. So, this is going to provide faster performance with the upgraded hardware throughout; much greater space efficiency and energy efficiency with the new smaller SAS-2 drives; and provide the same outstanding reliability that our clients continue to tell us is of primary importance.
OK… how about some details? On the right side, you’ll see the inside of the system, which looks very similar to the DS8700 model. The red highlights show where the new upgrades are, so we’ve got the new small-form-factor drives and drive enclosures at the top, the upgraded controllers near the middle, and the new 8Gb adapters at the bottom. Let’s start with the new drives and enclosures This new model will support only small-form-factor 2.5” drives. These will be the 6 Gb/s SAS-2 drives, which will provide not only faster performance than their 3.5” counterparts, but they’ll also provide higher reliability and scalability than the Fibre Channel interface provides a much lower cost. These drives offer all the enterprise attributes of the FC drives but at a lower cost and footprint. This is going to offer our clients outstanding space and energy efficiency benefits and faster performance. The drives offer better performance at the same rotational speeds, plus a 6 Gb/s transfer rate vs. 4 Gb/s, better energy usage per drive, at a lower cost per gigabyte. They also offer outstanding signal integrity and support longer cable lengths up to 10 meters. And since they’re smaller than the 3.5” drives, we’re able to pack many more drives into a frame than ever before. The result, of course, is better performance at a lower cost and with a more compact and efficient footprint. This has clients excited… very excited….mostly about the fact that they can have a dramatic effect on lowering their overall footprint in data center. One client is looking at consolidating at least a dozen older systems onto the DS8800. This has really become the most interesting benefit for most of the clients we’ve spoken with. In terms of options, we’ll be offering these 2.5” drives in SSD, 15k RPM and 10k RPM options Additional notes: Regarding SATA (7.2k RPM) options for 2.5” drives, I believe I saw that Seagate currently offers capacities up to 500GB, so we’re in no hurry support these until the capacities get much larger. And then we’ll have to compare these to the 10k options they have to see what makes the most sense. Drive Roadmap - Higher capacity options are expected for each family; Nearline SAS options will also be available to replace existing, 3.5” SATA capacities Next, let’s talk about the upgraded POWER6+ controllers As we move from POWER6 to POWER6+, we take advantage mostly of the increased chip speed. The clock speed is going from 4.7 Ghz to 5 Ghz, and we’re seeing faster IOPS and overall throughput. This P6 line also enables the system to support higher overall capacities, which will enable more consolidation of workloads and applications onto one system. At the bottom, we’ve got the upgraded 8Gb/s host and device adapters, which are connected to the PCI Express (PCI-E) internal fabric, which also contributes to higher performance and scalability. host adapters We’re making available both four-port and eight-port options, and these new adapters provide up to 100% improvement in single-port performance and up to 400% improvement in single adapter throughput. They’re also include dual core processors and have 4 times the memory of the DS8700’s adapters. This increased throughput is likely going to reduce the number of host ports needed, which is going to mean lower costs for clients These adapters will support attachment to FICON Express8 on our zEnterprise and z10 systems. device adapters We’ll offer four-port models, which is the same as what we offer on the DS8700, but these new DAs will offer up to 4 times the throughput of the previous adapters (single adapter). Like the host adapters, they’ll include dual core processors, which will enable faster and more effective automated tiering with Easy Tier since the system will be able to accelerate the movement of data across the various drives tiers. they also have 4 times the memory of those in the DS8700. And the new adapters also offer the ability to scale the system to much higher capacity and more controllers in the future. With respect to airflow changes , the system now has complete front-to-back airflow, which can help clients deploy a consistent hot aisle / cold aisle data center design. The airflow in the DS8700 is slightly different. The processor complexes and I/O enclosures in the bottom half of the frame took cool air from the front and sent hot air out the back, but the drive enclosures at the top took cool air from the front and the back and sent the hot air out of the top. This new front-to-back design can help clients design a more energy efficient data center with a hot-aisle/cold-aisle design. And since energy efficiency has been a hot topic for most clients, they’ve been telling us this is good news and that this should help with their power needs. Additional notes: Device adapter interconnect remains Fibre Channel In order to take advantage of DS8700 architecture, Gigapack connects to the DA via Fibre Channel protocol and converts to SAS protocol through the c ontrol card switch in the RAID adapter Improved backbone throughput, increased from 2Gbps to 8Gbps Moved to optical cabling Allows for increased cabling distance, especially at 8Gbps speeds Believed to be improved reliability over passive copper cabling Power distribution unit (PDU) is the upper left
Since the biggest change in this new release is the new high-density drives and enclosures, I thought it would be helpful to take a look at how they differ from the DS8700 drive enclosures. Integrated power and cooling allows us to move more efficiently with the new front-to-back cooling design. [Another smaller benefit is that it provides more redundancy if a fan our power supply fails. If this happens, we can quickly replace that power supply or fan without affecting the other enclosure.]
The effect of these new changes are the dramatic increase in space efficiency and energy efficiency, which, should dramatically lower costs in the data center. You can see on the right that a fully-configured DS8700 can hold 1,024 drives in 5 frames. The DS8800 can hold slightly more than that in only 3 frames, which is a 40% reduction in footprint. In fact, each frame can hold considerably more drives than its DS8700 counterpart. For example, the base frame and expansion frames can now support 88% more drives than prior models (base: 240 drives compared to 128; first expansion frame: 336 drives compared to 256 for DS8700; second expansion frame: 480 drives compared to 256 for DS8700 ). The benefits of this space and energy efficiency, of course, is the consolidation that clients can put into place by replacing many of their older systems with a handful of these new systems, and the energy savings that go with it. They’ll have a much smaller footprint to power and cool and the costs of managing few systems is going to also help lower operating costs. And client feedback has been overwhelmingly positive on this. We’ve spoken with clients that are preparing for a major consolidation with this new system where they’re planning on replacing a lot of their older systems with these newer ones.
Here we have a comparison of the energy usage for two fully-configured systems. You can see the new system uses over a third less energy than the existing DS8700 that we tested with. While we didn’t calculate the total with a DS8300 model, the energy savings that come from replacing these older models is more compelling since they would require a larger configuration to match the performance we’re delivering with the new DS8800 model. [READ summary findings at bottom of chart on money saved] Contributors to energy efficiency include: The new small-form-factor drives which use 10.2 watts, compared to 19.4 watts each in the DS8700 (90% reduction) The new, high-density disk enclosures , or gigapacks, which use 245 watts in the DS8800 vs. 310 watts each in the DS8700 (27%), despite the fact that the new enclosures hold 50% more drives Compares 15k drives vs. 10k drives running at maximum I/O (capacity does not affect comparison) Includes controller card power, power for cooling fans, and power for disks, but most efficiencies result from new drives) Assumptions in savings calculations: Floor space costs in a data center or even in an office can add up since the space taken by your storage is not usable for any other general business purposes. Your year 1 2010IBM DS8700 Turbo floor space costs are based on 5 racks that each require 65 square feet of floor space for a total of 325 square feet. Consumption of electricity to power and cool your storage can add up, especially if you have a large number of disk drives or disk arrays. Your year 1 2010IBM DS8700 Turbo power and cooling costs are based on 4,400 Watts of input power for your base controller, array frames, and disk expansion units plus 13,824 Watts of input power for your hard disks. Annual power and cooling requirements are based on the following formulas: Power : 1 Watt / 1000 Watts per kiloWatt * 8760 hours/year Cooling : 1 Watt * 3.413 BTU per hour per Watt / 10 BTU cooled per Watt according to average SEER enery ratings / 1000 Watts per kiloWatt * 8760 hours per year Frame comparison details A rack - 240 disks in DS8800 vs. 128 disks B rack – 336 disks vs. 256 disks DS8800 shows better energy per performance Energy per GB, DS8800 is better on energy usage / GB (nearline drives are not an option for the DS8800) Both cases are fully configured. DS8700 extrapolated from 3 frame to 5 frame. Compares 15KRPM in DS8700 to 15KRPM in DS8800. R5 DS8700 15K RPM A-rack: 6.8kW B-rack: 7.1kW C-rack: 6.1kW C-rack: 6.1kW C-rack: 3 kW -----------> Total 29.1KW R6 DS8800 10KRPM A-rack: 6.8kW B-rack: 5.4kW C-rack: 6.5kW ------------> Total 18.7 KW Approx 36% power reduction Recent measurement DS8700 extrapolated from 3 frame to 5 frame. Compare with 15k RPM in both DS87000 and DS8800 R5 DS8700 15KRPM A-rack: 6.8kW B-rack: 7.2kW C-rack: 6.4kW C-rack: 6.4kW C-rack: 3.2kW -------------> total 30KW R6 DS8800 15KRPM A-rack: 7.5kW B-rack: 6.2kW C-rack: 7.3kW -----------> Total 21 KW Approx 30% power reduction
In addition to the energy efficiency at the system level, the DS8000’s front-to-back airflow will enable clients to design their data centers with a consistent hot-aisle / cold-aisle configuration. As IT vendors continue to offer front-to-back cooling designs, this will enable clients to become even more energy efficient.
DBOpen 70/30/50 (IOs/sec)
Here are some additional enhancements we’ve made on both the DS8800, as well as the DS8700. We announced Storage Pool Striping on the DS8300 several years ago, and this this feature was designed to automatically eliminate hot spots by spreading volumes across multiple RAID groups, rather than within a single RAID group. What’s new on the DS8800 is that we’re now setting this as the default for new volumes. So clients get this hotspot reduction automatically without having to configure the system. Unlike our competitors, this supports both open- and mainframe-formatted data. Looking at the wider perspective, this enhancement extends our leadership in simplifying the way clients manage their volumes, which is becoming more and more important as we’re seeing more and more clients are asking us to help them manage more data with less resources. Hopefully, you’re already familiar with the way we allocate capacity in the DS8000 into 1GB chunks, or extents, as we call them. These 1GB building blocks are much more efficient than the way our competitors allocate volumes from available capacity. If you think about how their volumes are allocated, they need to create volumes from contiguous blocks on a physical disk, (i.e., Symmetrix hypervolumes), and this method can lead to a lot of wasted capacity since it leaves a lot of random and isolated islands of unused capacity between the actual volumes the client has created. These random islands of unused capacity between existing volumes might never be used because the client might not have a volume that fits nicely into that space. And this becomes more wasteful as more and more volumes are created and deleted over time. Another volume management advantage DS8000 users have is the way we allow for non-disruptive volume expansion. Since we create volumes from consistent 1GB extents in the storage pool, our Dynamic Volume Expansion feature can expand volumes simply by adding available extents from the storage pool to an existing volume. Just specify the existing volume name and the new size volume you need… and viola! That’s it! The competitors don't have an extent-based design. So the high-end EMC and Hitachi systems aren’t as efficient as ours. When a user wants to expand an existing volume, they would need to create a brand new volume that matches the size of the increase they want… then they have "concatenate“, or link, the two volumes together, which the system now pretends is a single volume. When a client wants to expand the volume again, they’d have to create another brand new volume of the size they desire and concatenate that new volume to the others they’ve already created. The end result might seem the same as how IBM does it, but it’s not. It’s like expanding your house by buying the house across the street, when all you really want to do is build another floor on top of your existing house. Clearly, our volume management is much more efficient. The IBM System Storage DS8800 business class cabling feature offers a streamlined, lower cost configuration than the standard configuration. It essentially reduces the number of device adapters and I/O enclosures while increasing the number of drive enclosures attached to the remaining device adapters. This allows for a cost-competitive configuration that aligns with the special needs of our clients who want smaller, cost-effective configurations. ******************* Additional competitive notes on Storage Pool Striping: Storage Pool Striping : Everyone does this for thin provisioned volumes. However, for any and all volume types, we’re the only one that offer this in a simple way by striping across the whole pool. With Symm, you got to different types of volumes on different disks and link them together manually, and this only works for open volumes, so no wide striping for mainframes. Now, this is our default. Volume expansion in DS8000 is easier than in EMC or HDS because we don't have to create new volumes then link them to the existing volumes. And DS8 supports this for open and MF, while Symm/Hit don't have DVE for mainframe. The only advantage Symm/Hit really have for managing volumes is the maximum size of a volume (60TB for both Symm/Hit, vs. 2TB for DS8)
06/01/09 *Business Continuity solution for AIX environments Description Open HyperSwap for AIX/DS8700 allows I/O to the primary volumes in a Metro Mirror relationship to be swapped, without human intervention, to the secondary volumes in the Metro Mirror relationship, with minimal disruption to the applications. The intent is for applications to see nothing more than a brief pause in their I/O. Once the swap has occurred, the application is automatically writing to the secondary site without noticing the switch. Supported Configuration Multiple AIX hosts supported in one TPC-R session DS8700 Release 5.1 microcode Supported on AIX 5.3 and 6.1 Requires new version of SDDPCM to be installed