IBM System Storage® DS3500 Express® combines best-of-breed development with leading 6 Gbps host interface and drive technology. With its simple, efficient and flexible approach to storage, the DS3500 Express is a cost-effective, fully integrated complement to IBM System x® servers, IBM BladeCenter® and IBM Power Systems™...
IBM System x en BladeCenter overzicht (june 2012)ibmserverblog
The document provides an overview of IBM System x x86 server-based solutions, including rack and tower servers, BladeCenter, storage and networking. It highlights key features and benefits of IBM servers such as performance, leading technology, cost efficiency, quality, and ease of use through tools that make server management easy and cost effective. Specifications and details are provided for various System x tower and rack systems ranging from entry-level to high-performance models.
This document provides an overview of the IBM System x3650 M3, a dual-socket 2U rack server. Key features include Intel Xeon 5600 series processors with up to 12 cores, support for up to 192GB RAM, up to 16 hot-swap hard drives or solid state drives for storage, 4 PCIe slots, and integrated Gigabit Ethernet. The server offers high availability through features like redundant power supplies and fans, hot-swap components, RAID, and IPMI 2.0 support. It also has tools for easy management and diagnostics locally or remotely. The x3650 M3 is suitable for applications requiring highly available and energy efficient rack servers.
VMware PEX Boot Camp - ExpressPod – A New Solution to Accelerate Sales in SMB NetApp
VMware on ExpressPod helps small and midsize businesses simplify and consolidate their IT infrastructure by providing an affordable, easy-to-deploy virtualization solution with automated operations and data protection. ExpressPod is designed to support a transactional/velocity sales model in the SMB segment. This sales-focused session will cover how to leverage ExpressPod to increase revenue and profits. You will hear about the market opportunity, solution positioning, competitive advantages, and tools available to help you sell.
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IBM System x3650 M4 HD
Flexibility, simplicity and scale for today's workloads.
The ultimate high density storage server, designed for data-intensive analytics and business critical workloads. Optimal blend of performance, uptime, and dense storage.
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The document summarizes an IBM System x3550 M2 server. It is a 1U dual-socket rack server that provides highly available, energy efficient computing power for applications requiring physical or virtual intensive workloads. It features Intel Xeon 5500 series processors, up to 128GB of memory, hot-swap hard drives and solid state drives, redundant power and fans, and management tools for high availability at a lower cost of ownership compared to other servers. The high density and energy efficiency of the 1U design allows for many servers to be installed in a single rack to support large workloads.
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The IBM System x3750 M4 is a 2U, 4-socket server that provides a balance of flexibility, price, and performance. It supports up to four Intel Xeon E5-4600 series processors, 48 DIMMs of memory, 16 HDDs or 32 SSDs of storage, 8 PCIe slots, dual redundant power supplies, and onboard 10GbE networking. The dense yet flexible design makes it suitable for virtualization, databases, HPC workloads, and other applications requiring scale-out computing power.
This document discusses HP's converged infrastructure (CI) storage solutions. It summarizes how CI helps address storage challenges through optimized performance, reduced complexity, maximized utilization, and reduced power footprint. It then discusses how HP's virtual resource pools require a virtualized storage infrastructure to transform information economics. Finally, it provides details on HP StorageWorks virtualization solutions and the benefits of the HP LeftHand P4000 storage solution.
Baldor Electric consolidated hundreds of servers onto an IBM z10 mainframe running SUSE Linux and cut IT costs 50% as a proportion of sales. It virtualized 70 servers to run SAP applications, migrated data to IBM DS8100 storage, and eliminated 50% of its data center space, cutting electricity costs 60%. The consolidation improved response times in SAP to under 500ms and reduced storage costs using IBM DB2 compression of up to 90%.
IBM System x en BladeCenter overzicht (june 2012)ibmserverblog
The document provides an overview of IBM System x x86 server-based solutions, including rack and tower servers, BladeCenter, storage and networking. It highlights key features and benefits of IBM servers such as performance, leading technology, cost efficiency, quality, and ease of use through tools that make server management easy and cost effective. Specifications and details are provided for various System x tower and rack systems ranging from entry-level to high-performance models.
This document provides an overview of the IBM System x3650 M3, a dual-socket 2U rack server. Key features include Intel Xeon 5600 series processors with up to 12 cores, support for up to 192GB RAM, up to 16 hot-swap hard drives or solid state drives for storage, 4 PCIe slots, and integrated Gigabit Ethernet. The server offers high availability through features like redundant power supplies and fans, hot-swap components, RAID, and IPMI 2.0 support. It also has tools for easy management and diagnostics locally or remotely. The x3650 M3 is suitable for applications requiring highly available and energy efficient rack servers.
VMware PEX Boot Camp - ExpressPod – A New Solution to Accelerate Sales in SMB NetApp
VMware on ExpressPod helps small and midsize businesses simplify and consolidate their IT infrastructure by providing an affordable, easy-to-deploy virtualization solution with automated operations and data protection. ExpressPod is designed to support a transactional/velocity sales model in the SMB segment. This sales-focused session will cover how to leverage ExpressPod to increase revenue and profits. You will hear about the market opportunity, solution positioning, competitive advantages, and tools available to help you sell.
New high-density storage server - IBM System x3650 M4 HDCliff Kinard
IBM System x3650 M4 HD
Flexibility, simplicity and scale for today's workloads.
The ultimate high density storage server, designed for data-intensive analytics and business critical workloads. Optimal blend of performance, uptime, and dense storage.
Watch our North America webcast replay here:
http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=670225&s=1&k=FC5CD17AB42385B40BCED29B8B61E2E8&partnerref=IBM09
The document summarizes an IBM System x3550 M2 server. It is a 1U dual-socket rack server that provides highly available, energy efficient computing power for applications requiring physical or virtual intensive workloads. It features Intel Xeon 5500 series processors, up to 128GB of memory, hot-swap hard drives and solid state drives, redundant power and fans, and management tools for high availability at a lower cost of ownership compared to other servers. The high density and energy efficiency of the 1U design allows for many servers to be installed in a single rack to support large workloads.
Overall portfolio with m4 bc and pure 8 8-12Natalija Pavic
The IBM System x3750 M4 is a 2U, 4-socket server that provides a balance of flexibility, price, and performance. It supports up to four Intel Xeon E5-4600 series processors, 48 DIMMs of memory, 16 HDDs or 32 SSDs of storage, 8 PCIe slots, dual redundant power supplies, and onboard 10GbE networking. The dense yet flexible design makes it suitable for virtualization, databases, HPC workloads, and other applications requiring scale-out computing power.
This document discusses HP's converged infrastructure (CI) storage solutions. It summarizes how CI helps address storage challenges through optimized performance, reduced complexity, maximized utilization, and reduced power footprint. It then discusses how HP's virtual resource pools require a virtualized storage infrastructure to transform information economics. Finally, it provides details on HP StorageWorks virtualization solutions and the benefits of the HP LeftHand P4000 storage solution.
Baldor Electric consolidated hundreds of servers onto an IBM z10 mainframe running SUSE Linux and cut IT costs 50% as a proportion of sales. It virtualized 70 servers to run SAP applications, migrated data to IBM DS8100 storage, and eliminated 50% of its data center space, cutting electricity costs 60%. The consolidation improved response times in SAP to under 500ms and reduced storage costs using IBM DB2 compression of up to 90%.
Learn about IBM Flex System: A Solid Foundation for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. IBM builds, tests, and publishes reference configurations and performance metrics to provide clients with guidelines for sizing their Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environments. This document highlights the IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node and IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node and how they can be used as the foundation for your Exchange 2010 infrastructure. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
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Your priorities are clear: meet the challenges of today’s dynamic world, contain costs, deal with IT skill shortages and take full advantage of new technologies. In short, manage your IT organization and infrastructure for business success. With its industry-leading flexibility, BladeCenter is the right choice for your dynamic business...
This document discusses storage solutions for digital video workflows. It explores applying efficient storage strategies to meet various requirements in video production, including price/performance, redundancy, capacity and density. Specific Nexsan storage products are highlighted as solutions tailored to different workflow stages and needs such as ingest, editing, rendering and digital asset management.
Rackspace needed to boost the capacity of its Storage Area Network (SAN) to support rapid growth of its managed backup and storage services division. It achieved this by implementing a scalable solution using Brocade 48000 Directors, 4900 and 4100 switches, and Fabric Manager software. This improved scalability, centralized management to reduce costs, and provided 50% lower power consumption. The upgraded SAN now enables Rackspace to quickly add storage and backup devices to provision and support its growing customer base.
Dell PowerEdge M420 and Oracle Database 11g R2: A Reference ArchitecturePrincipled Technologies
The document provides details about configuring an Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) environment with Oracle Database 11g R2 running on two Dell PowerEdge M420 blade servers. It discusses:
1) The hardware used, including the Dell PowerEdge M420 blade servers, Dell Force10 MXL 10/40GbE switches, and Dell EqualLogic PS6110XS storage array.
2) How to configure the storage, servers, and networking hardware, including installing Oracle Linux 6 on the servers and configuring the necessary clustering prerequisites.
3) The steps to install and configure Oracle RAC 11g and get the Oracle Database up and running in the clustered environment.
The document discusses IBM's new System x M4 servers, which leverage improvements in Intel's Xeon E5-2600 processor family to deliver compelling performance and energy efficiency. The new Intel platform features that make it more efficient, intelligent, and secure. IBM's M4 servers use these new processors to provide outstanding performance and energy efficiency along with advanced manageability and resiliency features and storage options. The performance and efficiency gains over older servers make the M4 servers a compelling choice for data center upgrades.
The IBM Power 755 server is a high performance 4U rack-mounted compute node optimized for running computationally intensive workloads in parallel clusters. It features 32 POWER7 processor cores running at 3.3 GHz, supports up to 256 GB of memory, and can be clustered with over 2,000 cores using InfiniBand interconnects. The Power 755 is designed for workloads like modeling that benefit from parallel processing and energy efficient with features to help reduce costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
The document discusses Dell's PowerEdge server portfolio and solutions for enterprise applications. It provides an overview of next-generation PowerEdge technologies including more processing power from Intel Xeon processors, high-capacity low-power memory, scalable efficient local storage, simplified intelligent management, and energy efficiency innovations. It also describes PowerEdge platforms for traditional and converged infrastructure and Dell's comprehensive enterprise solutions.
IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) is a turnkey, modular NAS solution that provides scalability, performance, availability and functionality needed for large file-based data workloads. It uses a clustered architecture to consolidate storage into a single globally accessible namespace that can scale to the petabyte level. SONAS supports centralized management of storage resources and implements automated information lifecycle management capabilities to help organizations efficiently manage large and rapidly growing datasets.
The document summarizes IBM's Intelligent Cluster integrated high performance computing solutions. It highlights that the solutions are built on innovative IBM System x, BladeCenter, and iDataPlex servers, offering high performance, energy and space efficiency, and easy deployment. Key features include leading-edge technology, high performance for applications like industrial design and manufacturing, reduced power and cooling costs, and a single point of contact for support.
NexGen Storage was founded in 2010 to deliver next generation hybrid storage systems for virtual infrastructures. Their systems are designed to provide the highest performance with the lowest combined cost per IOPS and per GB of storage. NexGen's hybrid storage uses PCIe solid-state drives and HDDs with storage management software to guarantee consistent application performance and quality of service.
This document discusses using IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk to monitor performance of an IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC). It describes a test environment consisting of SVC nodes, Windows and Linux hosts, Brocade switches, a DS4300 storage array, and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center. The document outlines a scenario where workloads are run on the hosts to stress the backend storage, and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk is used to measure performance and identify bottlenecks. When a bottleneck is detected, virtual disks are migrated to resolve the issue.
The document introduces the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family of modular storage systems. Key features include a serial attached SCSI (SAS) architecture, Dynamic Load Balancing Controller for load balancing I/O traffic, support for mixing SAS and SATA disk drives, and an easy-to-use graphical management interface. The systems are designed to provide highly reliable, cost effective storage for medium and large businesses to help meet service level agreements, optimize performance and efficiency, and ensure uninterrupted operations.
1) The document discusses different scenarios for using storage in Windows Server 2012, including building highly available and reliable storage solutions with cost effective hardware.
2) Key features demonstrated include dynamic memory increase for VMs, network virtualization for multitenancy, storage spaces for storage pooling and redundancy, SMB 3.0 for application storage, and data deduplication for optimization.
3) Windows Server 2012 storage capabilities allow for continuous application availability through features like SMB transparent failover, cluster aware updating, and live storage migration without downtime.
The document provides information on Dell PowerEdge rack servers, including their key features and specifications. Some of the servers highlighted include the PowerEdge R910, a 4-socket, 4U rack server designed for mission-critical applications; the PowerEdge R815, a 4-socket, 2U rack server offering value and performance; and the PowerEdge R720xd, a powerful 2-socket, 2U rack server with expandable memory and storage capabilities. Dell PowerEdge rack servers are engineered to deliver performance, efficiency, and reliability for enterprise computing environments.
NexGen Storage provides next generation hybrid storage systems designed for affordable, high performance virtual infrastructure. Their systems deliver the lowest combined cost per IOPS and per GB of storage, and include storage QoS guarantees to ensure application performance. NexGen uses PCIe solid-state drives and software-defined storage management to accelerate workloads while controlling performance and prioritizing applications.
The document describes IBM's eX5 systems, which are high-end computing systems that provide scalable memory, performance, and storage options. The eX5 portfolio includes the IBM System x3850 X5 rack server, IBM BladeCenter HX5 blade server, and IBM System x3690 X5 two-socket rack server. These systems combine IBM's fifth generation X-Architecture technology with Intel Xeon processors to handle complex workloads with evolving requirements. Key features include maximum memory expansion, integrated storage, workload optimization, and reliability features such as Chipkill memory.
The IBM DS5000 series storage system is a 7th generation storage system designed to provide industry-leading performance, reliability, scalability, and longevity to meet demanding open systems requirements. It uses a modular design that allows mixing different drive types and expanding capacity up to 960TB. The DS5000 offers centralized management and data protection features to ensure high availability and protect against data loss.
The era of smarter computing is here and is being driven by the need for more data with faster data access. Low-latency application performance in applications such as life sciences, real-time analytics, rich media, seismic processing, weather forecasting, telecommunications and financial markets require high-performance storage architectures.
The document provides an overview of the IBM System x3630 M3 server. Key points:
- It is a 2U dual-socket server that packs significant storage and computing power into a compact and energy-efficient design.
- It supports up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 series processors with up to 12 cores total, up to 192GB of memory, and large internal storage capacities of up to 28TB using a combination of SAS and SATA drives.
- It offers high performance and availability features like redundant power supplies and fans, hot-swap drives, hardware RAID, and extensive systems management capabilities through the Integrated Management Module.
The document discusses IBM's PureFlex System, which combines advanced IBM storage hardware and storage management software. It integrates these resources along with expertise to provide optimized storage solutions. Key features of IBM's Storwize V7000 storage systems integrated into PureFlex include simplified administration, automated tiering for improved performance, and virtualization capabilities. The systems also support consolidation of block and file storage using Storwize V7000 Unified.
Learn about IBM Flex System: A Solid Foundation for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. IBM builds, tests, and publishes reference configurations and performance metrics to provide clients with guidelines for sizing their Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environments. This document highlights the IBM Flex System x240 Compute Node and IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node and how they can be used as the foundation for your Exchange 2010 infrastructure. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
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Your priorities are clear: meet the challenges of today’s dynamic world, contain costs, deal with IT skill shortages and take full advantage of new technologies. In short, manage your IT organization and infrastructure for business success. With its industry-leading flexibility, BladeCenter is the right choice for your dynamic business...
This document discusses storage solutions for digital video workflows. It explores applying efficient storage strategies to meet various requirements in video production, including price/performance, redundancy, capacity and density. Specific Nexsan storage products are highlighted as solutions tailored to different workflow stages and needs such as ingest, editing, rendering and digital asset management.
Rackspace needed to boost the capacity of its Storage Area Network (SAN) to support rapid growth of its managed backup and storage services division. It achieved this by implementing a scalable solution using Brocade 48000 Directors, 4900 and 4100 switches, and Fabric Manager software. This improved scalability, centralized management to reduce costs, and provided 50% lower power consumption. The upgraded SAN now enables Rackspace to quickly add storage and backup devices to provision and support its growing customer base.
Dell PowerEdge M420 and Oracle Database 11g R2: A Reference ArchitecturePrincipled Technologies
The document provides details about configuring an Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) environment with Oracle Database 11g R2 running on two Dell PowerEdge M420 blade servers. It discusses:
1) The hardware used, including the Dell PowerEdge M420 blade servers, Dell Force10 MXL 10/40GbE switches, and Dell EqualLogic PS6110XS storage array.
2) How to configure the storage, servers, and networking hardware, including installing Oracle Linux 6 on the servers and configuring the necessary clustering prerequisites.
3) The steps to install and configure Oracle RAC 11g and get the Oracle Database up and running in the clustered environment.
The document discusses IBM's new System x M4 servers, which leverage improvements in Intel's Xeon E5-2600 processor family to deliver compelling performance and energy efficiency. The new Intel platform features that make it more efficient, intelligent, and secure. IBM's M4 servers use these new processors to provide outstanding performance and energy efficiency along with advanced manageability and resiliency features and storage options. The performance and efficiency gains over older servers make the M4 servers a compelling choice for data center upgrades.
The IBM Power 755 server is a high performance 4U rack-mounted compute node optimized for running computationally intensive workloads in parallel clusters. It features 32 POWER7 processor cores running at 3.3 GHz, supports up to 256 GB of memory, and can be clustered with over 2,000 cores using InfiniBand interconnects. The Power 755 is designed for workloads like modeling that benefit from parallel processing and energy efficient with features to help reduce costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
The document discusses Dell's PowerEdge server portfolio and solutions for enterprise applications. It provides an overview of next-generation PowerEdge technologies including more processing power from Intel Xeon processors, high-capacity low-power memory, scalable efficient local storage, simplified intelligent management, and energy efficiency innovations. It also describes PowerEdge platforms for traditional and converged infrastructure and Dell's comprehensive enterprise solutions.
IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) is a turnkey, modular NAS solution that provides scalability, performance, availability and functionality needed for large file-based data workloads. It uses a clustered architecture to consolidate storage into a single globally accessible namespace that can scale to the petabyte level. SONAS supports centralized management of storage resources and implements automated information lifecycle management capabilities to help organizations efficiently manage large and rapidly growing datasets.
The document summarizes IBM's Intelligent Cluster integrated high performance computing solutions. It highlights that the solutions are built on innovative IBM System x, BladeCenter, and iDataPlex servers, offering high performance, energy and space efficiency, and easy deployment. Key features include leading-edge technology, high performance for applications like industrial design and manufacturing, reduced power and cooling costs, and a single point of contact for support.
NexGen Storage was founded in 2010 to deliver next generation hybrid storage systems for virtual infrastructures. Their systems are designed to provide the highest performance with the lowest combined cost per IOPS and per GB of storage. NexGen's hybrid storage uses PCIe solid-state drives and HDDs with storage management software to guarantee consistent application performance and quality of service.
This document discusses using IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk to monitor performance of an IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC). It describes a test environment consisting of SVC nodes, Windows and Linux hosts, Brocade switches, a DS4300 storage array, and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center. The document outlines a scenario where workloads are run on the hosts to stress the backend storage, and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk is used to measure performance and identify bottlenecks. When a bottleneck is detected, virtual disks are migrated to resolve the issue.
The document introduces the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family of modular storage systems. Key features include a serial attached SCSI (SAS) architecture, Dynamic Load Balancing Controller for load balancing I/O traffic, support for mixing SAS and SATA disk drives, and an easy-to-use graphical management interface. The systems are designed to provide highly reliable, cost effective storage for medium and large businesses to help meet service level agreements, optimize performance and efficiency, and ensure uninterrupted operations.
1) The document discusses different scenarios for using storage in Windows Server 2012, including building highly available and reliable storage solutions with cost effective hardware.
2) Key features demonstrated include dynamic memory increase for VMs, network virtualization for multitenancy, storage spaces for storage pooling and redundancy, SMB 3.0 for application storage, and data deduplication for optimization.
3) Windows Server 2012 storage capabilities allow for continuous application availability through features like SMB transparent failover, cluster aware updating, and live storage migration without downtime.
The document provides information on Dell PowerEdge rack servers, including their key features and specifications. Some of the servers highlighted include the PowerEdge R910, a 4-socket, 4U rack server designed for mission-critical applications; the PowerEdge R815, a 4-socket, 2U rack server offering value and performance; and the PowerEdge R720xd, a powerful 2-socket, 2U rack server with expandable memory and storage capabilities. Dell PowerEdge rack servers are engineered to deliver performance, efficiency, and reliability for enterprise computing environments.
NexGen Storage provides next generation hybrid storage systems designed for affordable, high performance virtual infrastructure. Their systems deliver the lowest combined cost per IOPS and per GB of storage, and include storage QoS guarantees to ensure application performance. NexGen uses PCIe solid-state drives and software-defined storage management to accelerate workloads while controlling performance and prioritizing applications.
The document describes IBM's eX5 systems, which are high-end computing systems that provide scalable memory, performance, and storage options. The eX5 portfolio includes the IBM System x3850 X5 rack server, IBM BladeCenter HX5 blade server, and IBM System x3690 X5 two-socket rack server. These systems combine IBM's fifth generation X-Architecture technology with Intel Xeon processors to handle complex workloads with evolving requirements. Key features include maximum memory expansion, integrated storage, workload optimization, and reliability features such as Chipkill memory.
The IBM DS5000 series storage system is a 7th generation storage system designed to provide industry-leading performance, reliability, scalability, and longevity to meet demanding open systems requirements. It uses a modular design that allows mixing different drive types and expanding capacity up to 960TB. The DS5000 offers centralized management and data protection features to ensure high availability and protect against data loss.
The era of smarter computing is here and is being driven by the need for more data with faster data access. Low-latency application performance in applications such as life sciences, real-time analytics, rich media, seismic processing, weather forecasting, telecommunications and financial markets require high-performance storage architectures.
The document provides an overview of the IBM System x3630 M3 server. Key points:
- It is a 2U dual-socket server that packs significant storage and computing power into a compact and energy-efficient design.
- It supports up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 series processors with up to 12 cores total, up to 192GB of memory, and large internal storage capacities of up to 28TB using a combination of SAS and SATA drives.
- It offers high performance and availability features like redundant power supplies and fans, hot-swap drives, hardware RAID, and extensive systems management capabilities through the Integrated Management Module.
The document discusses IBM's PureFlex System, which combines advanced IBM storage hardware and storage management software. It integrates these resources along with expertise to provide optimized storage solutions. Key features of IBM's Storwize V7000 storage systems integrated into PureFlex include simplified administration, automated tiering for improved performance, and virtualization capabilities. The systems also support consolidation of block and file storage using Storwize V7000 Unified.
The document summarizes SAN (storage area network) technology and its advantages over direct-attached storage. It discusses how SANs allow servers to share storage, provide better infrastructure for features like multipathing, and vastly increase scalability. Diagrams show how SANs consolidate storage from a past environment of isolated systems to a future environment with centralized shared storage. The document also compares the IBM DS3400 and EMC CX3-40s storage arrays and provides an overview of SAN delivery and support options available to customers.
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.
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.
It is very much likely that most people are aware of Cisco network equipment such as routers and switches and maybe IP telephony too. Few people might have heard that Cisco manufactures servers and even less might have used them, especially in Cyprus. Cisco has been in the server market since nearly 10 years ago though, it is rated among the top server manufacturers and is market leader in blade servers.
Presentation of Cisco UCS server platform during Simplex-Cisco Technology Session that took place at the Londa Hotel in Limassol on 14 March 2018.
The document provides an overview of the IBM System x3755 M3 server. It is a 4-socket, 2U rack-optimized server that offers outstanding price/performance for mid-sized workloads. Key features include support for up to 48 processor cores using AMD Opteron 6100 series CPUs, support for up to 512GB of RAM using DDR3 memory, up to 16TB of internal storage, and high throughput via four PCIe slots and dual Gigabit Ethernet controllers. The server is designed for maximum uptime with features such as integrated RAID, redundant cooling fans, remote management capabilities, and hardware-based error correction.
IBM Flex System NAS solutions with Windows Storage Server 2012 provide highly available and scalable network attached storage. The solutions include IBM Flex System servers, storage, and networking combined with Windows Storage Server 2012. This allows for deploying either a unified storage server with local storage or a highly available unified NAS gateway with shared storage. The solutions deliver file sharing, block storage, and infrastructure services to heterogeneous environments while improving performance, availability, manageability and reducing costs.
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Cisco has partnered with leading software providers to offer a comprehensive infrastructure and management solution for big data. This includes tested and validated reference architectures, joint engineering labs, solution bundles, and technical collateral. Cisco's UCS is the exclusive hardware reference platform and offers benefits like unified management, unified fabric, and seamless data and management integration.
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Alex Yost, VP and Business Line Executive, IBM PureFlex, System x and BladeCenter AND Sean Poulley, VP of Databases and Data Warehousing IBM SWG -
Keynote presentationS from the Jan 16th IBM Infrastructure Matters event NYSE.
This document discusses several factors to consider when choosing between hybrid and all-flash storage options for a cloud platform:
Hybrid storage is more economical and suitable for workloads with random disk access in smaller blocks, like development or proof-of-concept activities. All-flash storage provides the fastest read/write speeds and is better for workloads that require high performance and large memory capacities. The document provides recommendations on when each option is most appropriate.
SIOS DataKeeper software allows users to add disaster recovery protection to Windows clusters or create SANless clusters using local storage. It uses efficient block-level replication to synchronize data across servers, enabling continuous operations even after failover. DataKeeper is offered in Standard and Cluster Editions, and can replicate within or across data centers. It protects applications in physical, virtual, and cloud environments with high performance and at a lower cost than traditional solutions.
This document discusses the NetApp E5500 storage solution for Lustre file systems. It provides three key points:
1) The NetApp E5500 is designed to meet the demands of large Lustre file systems including supporting over 100TB of storage, 100,000 clients, and independent scaling of clients, storage, and bandwidth.
2) Lustre is an open source parallel file system used on over 60% of the world's largest supercomputers that separates data from metadata to deliver scale and performance.
3) Test results show the E5500 can deliver over 7,200 sustained MBps of throughput from compute nodes to a 250TB Lustre file system, demonstrating its
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This document discusses Cisco's UCS and HyperFlex infrastructure solutions. It provides an overview of Cisco UCS momentum in the server market and highlights new features in the fifth-generation UCS M5 portfolio, including increased cores, memory, storage and GPU support. It also summarizes Cisco HyperFlex including the new HX Data Platform software and HyperFlex configurations. The document is aimed at providing an update on Cisco's compute infrastructure for hybrid cloud environments.
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1) The document discusses new trends in data growth, cloud usage, and business demands that are challenging traditional storage approaches.
2) It introduces IBM's portfolio of software-defined storage and all-flash array solutions that provide agility, control, and efficiency to help customers optimize business value.
3) Key solutions highlighted include the IBM Spectrum Storage software family, FlashSystem all-flash arrays, VersaStack converged infrastructure, and PurePower systems.
The document describes the IBM System x3850 X5 and x3950 X5 servers. The x3850 X5 offers flexible configurations to meet changing workload demands and can be expanded from 2 to 4 processors and 32GB to 2TB of memory. The x3950 X5 comes with preconfigured systems optimized for specific workloads like databases, virtualization, and SAP HANA. Both systems provide high performance, reliability, and energy efficiency to allow for server consolidation and reducing costs.
The document provides an overview of the Dell Compellent Storage Center sales playbook. It highlights key features of the Dell Compellent Storage Center and FS8600 NAS solution including built-in intelligence, agility, automation, efficiency, resiliency, virtualization capabilities, and ability to scale non-disruptively. The solutions provide a unified platform for block and file storage that optimizes performance and reduces costs as environments scale.
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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Learn about Ibm POWER7 Virtualization Performance. PowerVM Lx86 is a cross-platform virtualization solution that enables the running of a wide range of x86 Linux applications on Power Systems platforms within a Linux on Power partition without modifications or recompilation of the workloads. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
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This reference architecture document describes deploying the VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite on the IBM PureFlex System hardware platform. Key points:
- The vCloud Suite software provides components for managing and delivering cloud services, while the IBM PureFlex System provides an integrated hardware platform in a single chassis.
- The reference architecture focuses on installing the vCloud Suite management components as virtual machines on an ESXi host to manage consumer resources.
- The IBM PureFlex System provides servers, networking, and storage in a single chassis that can then be easily scaled out. This standardized deployment accelerates provisioning of cloud infrastructure.
- Deployment considerations cover systems management using IBM Flex System Manager, server, networking, storage configurations
Learn how x6: The sixth generation of EXA Technology is fast, agile and Resilient for Emerging Workloads from Alex Yost. Vice President, IBM PureSystems and System x
IBM Systems and Technology Group. x6 drives cloud and big data for enterprises by achieving insight faster thereby outperforming competitors. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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IBM System Storage DS3500 Express
1. IBM Systems and Technology System Storage
Data Sheet
IBM System Storage
DS3500 Express
Affordable performance and flexibility with
greater scalability, efficiency and ease of use
IBM System Storage® DS3500 Express® combines best-of-breed devel-
Highlights opment with leading 6 Gbps host interface and drive technology. With its
simple, efficient and flexible approach to storage, the DS3500 Express is
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Includes 6 gigabits per second (Gbps) a cost-effective, fully integrated complement to IBM System x® servers,
serial-attached SCSI (SAS) systems
to deliver mid-range performance
IBM BladeCenter® and IBM Power Systems™. By offering substantial
and scalability at entry-level prices improvements at a price that fits most budgets, the DS3500 Express
delivers superior price/performance ratios, functionality, scalability and
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Offers built-in management expertise
in intuitive and powerful storage ease of use for the entry-level storage user.
management software
The DS3500 Express offers:
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Delivers continuous data security with
full disk encryption and supports high-
performing solid state drives (SSDs) ●● ●
Scalability to mid-range performance and features starting at
Offers Network Equipment Building
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entry-level prices
System (NEBS) and European ●● ●
Efficiency to help reduce annual energy expenditures and
Telecommunication Standards environmental footprints
Institute (ETSI) compliance and ●● ●
Simplicity that does not sacrifice control with the perfect
support for 48 V DC power supplies
combination of robustness and ease of use
Delivers mid-range performance and scalability
Six Gbps SAS is the enterprise version of SAS that builds on the solid
foundation of 3 Gbps SAS technology. Six Gbps SAS offers increased
performance, scalability and reliability enhancements to support the
ever-increasing reliance on information, while delivering the outstanding
value that organizations demand.
2. IBM Systems and Technology System Storage
Data Sheet
Delivering solid input and output per second (IOPS) and
throughput, the DS3500 Express controllers offer balanced
and sustainable performance. With up to 4,000 megabytes
per second and 40,000 IOPS in sustained drive reads, the
DS3500 Express is equally adept at delivering throughput to
bandwidth-intensive applications and IOPS to databases and
Microsoft Exchange.
The DS3500 Express has enhanced scalability of up to
576 terabytes (TB) when fully expanded up to 192 drives.
By dynamically adding drive enclosures (up to 15 EXP3512,
7 EXP3524 expansion enclosures or a mix of the two) with
virtually no downtime, you can quickly and seamlessly respond Energy-efficient power supplies help ensure just that—energy
to growing capacity demands. This scalability also improves efficiency. By efficiently converting AC power from electric
overall system performance by distributing the server’s I/O utilities into DC power used by the storage system, the DS3500
requests across a greater number of drives. Express power supplies ensure that overall annual expenditures
are lower than other, less-efficient implementations. And with
Enables energy-saving implementations low heat dissipation, the DS3500 Express serves a key role in an
With rising energy expenses and IT space constraints, efforts to overall energy-saving and green solution.
reduce power consumption in a small IT footprint have quickly
come to the forefront as hot-button IT issues for many organi- With a DC-powered model for 24-drive enclosures with NEBS
zations. To respond to these challenges, IBM has made great and ETSI compliance, the DS3500 Express offers savings in
strides in energy-efficient implementations with the DS3500 energy expenses, meets standard telecommunications
Express, which introduces power-saving features designed to requirements and minimizes risk in harsh environments.
have virtually no impact on performance, scalability or
functionality. The DS3500 Express continues the tradition of superior disk
use that enables users to achieve maximum return on invest-
Smaller form-factor 2.5-inch SAS drives, one of multiple drives ment (ROI) on their storage investments. The DS series can
supported by the DS3500 Express, provide up to three times deliver up to nearly two times the disk use of leading competi-
the IOPS per watt in power consumption than 3.5-inch drives tors, enabling organizations to achieve maximum performance
and enable twice as many drives to reside in the same 2U of with fewer drives and less energy consumption.
rack space. These drives also deliver impressive IOPS perfor-
mance in a small form factor with minimal impact on power
consumption or heat dissipation.
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3. IBM Systems and Technology System Storage
Data Sheet
Simplifies storage management
The new IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager for the
DS3500 Express blends the ease of use and intuitive nature
of the IBM System Storage DS3000 Storage Manager with
the robustness and functionality previously only available on the
IBM System Storage DS5000 and DS4000®. The result is a
simple storage management interface that provides great con-
trol while maintaining simplicity. The DS3500 Express now
offers dynamic and other high-functionality capabilities which,
in the previous generation of management software, were only
available through the command line interface. This capability
allows administrators to make changes to their configurations
on the fly with no downtime. The new DS Storage Manager
graphical user interface was designed for both experienced Enables DB2 Administration Server and
full-time storage administrators who want complete control SAN tiering
over their storage configuration, as well as part-time system Administrators can now benefit from tiered IBM DB2®
administrators who desire an intuitive interface that ensures Administration Server and storage area network (SAN)
optimal storage use with the least amount of effort. implementations with multiprotocol host connectivity. The
DS3500 Express supports intermixing four 1 Gbps iSCSI, two
Provides a singular DS Storage Manager 10 Gbps iSCSI—dual-ported—or four 8 Gbps Fibre Channel
The DS3500 Express DS Storage Manager is the same man- host ports with its native 6 Gbps SAS interfaces. This f lexible
agement software offered with the DS5000 and DS4000 series. and multipurpose dual-protocol approach enables organizations
Now, any of these storage systems can be viewed and managed to implement a single storage system to support all of their
from a single interface. This allows for consolidated manage- shared storage requirements and helps improve productivity,
ment of these various storage systems as well as a reduced reliability and cost savings. These implementations offer
learning curve. The DS3500 Express also supports enhanced additional benefits, as well:
remote mirroring over Fibre Channel host ports, which is also
compatible with the DS5000 and DS4000 series. This allows
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Low-cost, high-speed SAS delivers the best value and
for low-cost backup and recovery with a DS5000 and DS4000 performance for direct-attach storage implementations.
at a production site and a DS3500 Express at the secondary site.
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Data centers with existing iSCSI or Fibre Channel SAN
infrastructures can cost effectively implement these additional
host interfaces as required; 1 Gbps iSCSI is ideal for low-cost
implementations for secondary servers, and Fibre Channel is
well positioned for high-performance and robust
deployments.
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Future-proof storage provides seamless integration to an
existing 1 Gbps iSCSI infrastructure and is ready for the
inevitable move to 10 Gbps iSCSI.
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4. IBM Systems and Technology System Storage
Data Sheet
Offers continuous data security Supports capacity needs with tiered
In the life cycle of a hard drive, it will, at some point, be out of storage
the user’s control either through theft, off-site service, repair or The DS3500 Express, similar to the DS3000, DS4000 and
disposal. The DS3500 Express combines local key management DS5000 storage systems, can cost-effectively support an
and drive-level encryption for comprehensive data security organization’s complete range of data capacity requirements—
designed to protect data throughout the life of the drive from nearline static data to highly used applications—through
without sacrificing storage system performance or ease of use. support for mixed drive types in a single storage system.
The DS3500 Express accomplishes this with support for
Full disk encryption (FDE) provides data security at the high-performance SAS drives, nearline SAS drives, SSDs and
most basic level—the hard drive. FDE protects against many SED drives. Nearline SAS drives are also the clear replacement
exposures and vulnerabilities all at once. This drive-level of Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) drives.
encryption helps ensure data security in the event of a drive Competitively priced to SATA drives, nearline SAS drives
loss, theft or retirement. The FDE engine performs encryption significantly outperform SATA and do so with greater
without a performance penalty, which gives you the highest reliability.
levels of data security while retaining optimal performance.
Now you can address even more granular and specific require-
Fully integrated into the DS Storage Manager as a premium ments for your application needs, whether they include security
feature upgrade, local key management provides the necessary for data at rest, leading performance or energy efficiency. This
management and protection of self-encrypting disk (SED) exciting capability maximizes storage density and provides a
drives by using a single authorization scheme, or lock key, more efficient use of enclosures when implementing a tiered
which can be set and applied to all SED drives in the DS3500 storage solution.
Express. The DS Storage Manager maintains and controls the
key linkage and communications with the SED drives, secures Centralizes storage device management
user-selected logical drive groups and initiates the instant secure IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center for Disk
erase feature for users desiring even more peace of mind when Select V4.2.2 is designed to provide storage device
servicing, decommissioning or repurposing drives. With local configuration, performance monitoring and management
encryption services, FDE key management is transparent to of SAN-attached devices from a single console. In addition,
day-to-day storage administration, making SED drives as easy it includes performance-monitoring capabilities for the
to manage as traditional drives. DS3500 Express.
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5. IBM Systems and Technology System Storage
Data Sheet
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Select V4.2.2 ●● ●
Business-critical applications: With bullet-proof reliability,
provides the following features: support for SED drives and exceptional uptime, the DS3500
Express supports business-critical applications where data
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Continuous real-time monitoring and fault identification must be protected and available when needed.
to improve SAN availability ●● ●
Secondary storage: Support for redundant array of
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Performance reporting across multiple arrays from a independent disks (RAID) 6 and native language SAS
single console drives means the DS3500 Express can store large amounts of
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Monitoring of metrics such as throughput, I/O, data rates and data cost effectively, with confidence that it is fully protected.
cache use ●● ●
Clustered topologies: SAS-based shared storage and Fibre
●● ●
Reception of timely alerts that can enable event action based Channel or iSCSI SAN implementations are ideal for cluster-
on policies when thresholds are exceeded ing solutions such as Microsoft Cluster Server and Oracle
●● ●
Improved storage ROI by helping to keep SANs up and Real Application Clusters when transitioning from a direct-
running attached storage implementation.
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Reduced storage administration costs by simplifying the ●● ●
Streaming video: Large-block I/O applications, such as
management of complex SANs world-class broadcasting, rich-media storage networks,
content creation, modeling and publishing benefit from the
Handles key applications and workloads additional bandwidth that the DS3500 Express series offers.
The DS3500 Express offers these additional capabilities: ●● ●
Data mining: With Fibre Channel and SAS host connectivity,
organizations can accelerate and scale simulation, visualiza-
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Consolidation and virtualization: Balanced performance, tion, modeling and rendering applications easily to accelerate
low-cost consolidation and unparalleled configuration large dataset I/O rates, as well as cost-effectively scale and
f lexibility make the DS3500 Express ideally suited for smaller share information across the organization for high-level
consolidation and virtualization implementations where an collaboration.
individual storage system supports diverse workloads and ●● ●
Backup and restore: With the ability to mirror data between
application requirements. storage systems over Fibre Channel, the DS3500 Express can
●● ●
Departmental and remote sites: The DS3500 Express offers support short backup windows and recovery times for high
the right amount of performance, simplicity and functionality productivity.
that a part-time administrator can use at a price that won’t ●● ●
Storage solution: The DS3500 Express offers enhanced
break an organization’s budget, allowing multiple sites to be Tivoli Storage FlashCopy® services, thin provisioning
self-sufficient. and advanced software features for small and mid-sized
●● ●
Transactional workloads: Efficient IOPS make the DS3500 businesses.
Express well suited for transactional workloads, including ●● ●
Data protection: The DS3500 Express offers simplified
online transaction processing, databases and email that are provisioning, improved rebuild times and more consistent
the core of every organization’s critical applications. performance under failure via selectable disk pooling.
●● ●
Data warehousing: Solid throughput, 6 Gbps SAS and ●● ●
Campus area replication: When replicating data across a
8 Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces make the DS3500 Express high-speed Fibre Channel SAN, data can be mirrored
well suited for data warehousing environments where an synchronously, ensuring that remote sites have the exact
individual storage system must process large amounts of data. same data as the local site at all times.
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6. IBM Systems and Technology System Storage
Data Sheet
IBM System Storage DS3500 Express at a glance
Characteristics
Part number 1746A2S DS3512 Express Single Controller Storage System
1746A2D DS3512 Express Dual Controller Storage System
1746A4S DS3524 Express Single Controller Storage System
1746A4D DS3524 Express Dual Controller Storage System
1746T4D DS3524 Express DC Dual Controller Storage System
RAID controller Dual active, hot-swappable controllers
Cache 1 gigabyte (GB) cache per controller with 2 GB upgrade (battery-backed)
Host interface Four options:
Four or eight 6 Gbps SAS ports
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Eight 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports and four 6 Gbps SAS ports
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Eight 1 Gbps iSCSI ports and four 6 Gbps SAS ports
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Four 10 Gbps iSCSI ports and four 6 Gbps SAS ports
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Drive interface Two 6 Gb SAS drive ports
Supported drives 6 Gbps SAS 3.5 in. drives:
300 GB , 450 GB, 600 GB 15k rpm
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2 TB 7.2k, 3 TB 7.2k rpm nearline
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600 GB 15k rpm SED
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6 Gbps SAS 2.5 in. drives:
146 GB 15k rpm
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300 GB 15k rpm
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300 GB 10k rpm
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600 GB 10k rpm
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900 GB 10k rpm
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500 GB 7.2k rpm nearline
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300 GB 10k rpm SED
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1 TB 7.2k rpm
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Solid-state SAS 2.5 in. drives*:
200 GB and 400 GB SSD
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RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10
Storage partitions Support for up to 128 storage partitions (levels: 4 standard with upgrades to 8, 16, 32, 64 and 128)
Maximum drives supported ●● ●
Up to 192 drives—high-performance SAS drives, nearline SAS drives, SSDs and SED SAS drives
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EXP3512 (2U 12 3.5-in drives) and EXP3524 (2U 24 2.5-in drive) enclosures, which can be inter
mixed behind a DS3500 Express enclosure
Fans and power supplies Dual redundant, hot-swappable
Rack support 2U, 19 in., industry-standard rack
Management software IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager
SAN support Supported IBM Fibre Channel switches and directors, and IP switches
Warranty Three-year parts and labor warranty, 9x5 next business day, upgradable to 24x7 with four-hour
response
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7. IBM Systems and Technology System Storage
Data Sheet
IBM System Storage DS3500 Express at a glance
Physical characteristics
Dimensions DS3512: Height: 3.39 in./86.16 mm, Width: 18.99 in./482.47 mm, Depth: 21.72 in./551.60 mm
DS3524: Height: 3.47 in./88.07 mm, Width: 18.98 in./482.10 mm, Depth: 19.60 in./497.93 mm
Supported systems For a list of currently supported servers, operating systems, host bus adapters, clustering applications and SAN
switches and directors, refer to the DS3500 Express Interoperability Matrix.
Model Model description Interface Model includes
1746-E2A/EXP3512 Drive enclosure 6 Gb SAS External security manager-embedded
1746-E4A/EXP3524
Relative humidity EXP3512/EXP3524 drive enclosure
(no condensation)
Operating range 20% to 80%
Storage range 10% to 90%
Maximum dew point 79°F (26°C)
Maximum gradient 10% per hour
Altitude ranges
Operating 100 ft. (30.5 m) below sea level to 10,000 ft. (3048 m) above sea level
Storage 100 ft. (30.5 m) below sea level to 10,000 ft. (3048 m) above sea level
Transit 100 ft. (30.5 m) below sea level to 40,000 ft. (12,000 m) above sea level
The tabulated power and heat dissipation values are the maximum measured operating power.
Acoustic noise EXP3512/EXP3524 drive enclosure
Sound power 6.5 bel
Sound pressure 65 dBA
Power input EXP3512/EXP3524 drive enclosure
Nominal voltage range 90 V ac to 264 V ac
Frequency range 50 to 60 Hz
Maximum operating current 3.90 A at 115 V ac
2.06 A at 230 V ac
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