IBM System Storage

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IBM System Storage (formerly IBM TotalStorage) is the brand name for IBM's computer storage products, covering both Disk and Tape products.

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[edit] Disk Systems

[edit] Current SAN Disk Systems

[edit] DS3000 Series

The DS3000 products are made for IBM by NetApp (after NetApp purchased Engenio from LSI in March 2011).[1]

  • DS3200
    • 3Gbit SAS single or dual-controller for direct host attachment (up to 6 hosts)
    • 2U enclosure with 12 SAS or SATA drive bays
    • can use up to 48 drives using EXP3000
  • DS3300
    • 1Gbit iSCSI single or dual-controller with 2 host ports
    • 2U enclosure with 12 SAS or SATA drive bays
    • can use up to 48 drives using EXP3000
  • DS3400
    • 4Gbit FC single or dual-controller with 4 host ports
    • 2U enclosure with 12 SAS or SATA drive bays
    • can use up to 48 drives using EXP3000
  • EXP3000
    • 3Gbit SAS expansion drawer for direct host, DS3200 or DS3400 attachment
    • 2U enclosure with 12 SAS or SATA drive bays
  • DS3512/DS3524
    • 6Gbit SAS single or dual-controller with 2 host ports. Controller options to add either 2 more 6Gbit SAS hosts ports, 4 8Gbit FC ports, or 4 1Gbit iSCSI ports.
    • 2U enclosure with 12 3.5" (DS3512) or 24 2.5" (DS3524) SAS drive bays
    • can use up to 96 drives using EXP3512 or EXP3524
  • EXP3512/EXP3524
    • 6Gbit SAS expansion drawer for DS3512 or DS3524 attachment (no direct host attachment)
    • 2U enclosure with 12 3.5" (EXP3512) or 24 2.5" (EXP3524) SAS drive bays
  • DS3950 Express
    • 8Gbit FC dual-controller with 8 Hosts ports
    • Optional four 1Gbit/s iSCSI
    • 3U enclosure with 16 SAS or SATA drive bays
    • can use up to 112 drives using EXP395
  • EXP395
    • 3U enclosure with 16 SAS or SATA drive bays

[edit] Storwize V7000

The IBM Storwize V7000 is a midrange storage controller from IBM. The Storwize V7000 is based on the IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC).

[edit] DS5000 Series

  • DS5020
  • DS5100
  • DS5300

[edit] DS8000 Series

Enterprise storage, supporting FC, FICON and ESCON host connectivity

[edit] XIV

The IBM XIV is an Enterprise Disk Storage Solution. Its focus is ease of management and consistent performance.

[edit] DS4000 Series

  • EXP3000
    • 3,5' SAS disks (10k, 15k)
  • EXP420
    • 4Gbit FC Expansion drawer for DS4200 attachment
    • 3U enclosure with 16 SATA drive bays
  • EXP810
    • 4Gbit FC Expansion drawer for DS4300, DS4500, DS4700 or DS4800 attachment
    • 3U enclosure with 16 Fibre Channel drive bays

[edit] DCS9900

Disk storage system targeting HPC workloads. It is based on the DataDirect Networks S2A9900

[edit] Current SAN Disk Virtualization Systems

[edit] SAN Volume Controller

The IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a block storage virtualization appliance. Because the IBM Storwize V7000 uses SVC code, it can also be used to perform storage virtualization in exactly the same way as the SVC.

[edit] Current NAS Disk Systems

[edit] SONAS

SONAS is the IBM Enterprise storage platform based on GPFS technology. This system supports NAS based protocols over a large-scale global name space. Today the system can scale out using commodity components to 30 balanced nodes and up to 14.4 PB of storage. GPFS gives the SONAS system with built-in ILM and tight integration with TSM allows administrators to move data to disk pools.

[edit] Storwize V7000 Unified

The Storwize V7000 Unified combines two head units running IBM SONAS version 1.3 code with the IBM Storwize V7000. It is described as unified storage because it simultaneously supports NAS protocols (such as CIFS and HFS) and block storage.

[edit] N Series

The N Series is a Unified Architecture that Natively supports Block and File based protocols (FCP, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, FCoE). There is deep Enterprise application integration and enhanced storage efficiency technology, such as Block level De-duplication on Primary Data. The N Series is through an OEM Relationship with NetApp.

  • All Product lines are certified IDC 99.999% availability and share the same feature functionality, Can be used for Tier 1, 2 or 3.

Entry Level

  • N3300 (68TB maximum raw capacity)
  • N3400
  • N3600 (104TB maximum raw capacity)

Mid-Tier

  • N6040 (420TB maximum raw capacity)
  • N6060
  • N6070 (840TB maximum raw capacity)

High-end

  • N7900 (1.1PB maximum raw capacity)

Storage Virtualization Gateway Appliance to virtualize existing heterogeneous storage to gain the advantages of DataONTAP. Support includes IBM DS line, EMC, Hitachi, etc.

[edit] Withdrawn Disk Systems

  • EXP300 (SCSI Ultra160 Expansion drawer for direct host attachment)
  • EXP400 (SCSI Ultra320 Expansion drawer for direct host or DS400 attachment)
  • DS300 (iSCSI controller)
  • DS400 (FC Attached controller, using SCSI drives)
  • DS4000 Series
    • EXP100 (1Gbit FC Expansion drawer for DS4000 attachment, using SATA disks)
    • EXP700 (2Gbit FC Expansion drawer for DS4000 attachment)
    • EXP710 (2Gbit FC Expansion drawer for DS4000 attachment)
    • DS4100 (FC Attached controller, using SATA drives)
    • DS4200
    • DS4300
    • DS4300 Turbo
    • DS4400
    • DS4500
    • DS4700
    • DS4800
  • DS6800
    • Enterprise storage, supporting both FC and FICON host connectivity
    • PowerPC 750 dual-controller with 8 host ports and 8 drive ports
    • 3U enclosure with 16 FC drive bays
    • Attached up to 128 drives using DS6000 expansion units (1750-EX1 and 1750-EX2)
    • Drives could be Fibre Channel or SATA
  • FAStT Series (renamed to DS4000 Series)
    • EXP200 (1Gbit FC Expansion drawer for FAStT attachment)
    • EXP500 (1Gbit FC Expansion drawer for FAStT attachment)
    • FAStT100 (renamed to DS4100)
    • FAStT200
    • FAStT500
    • FAStT600 (renamed to DS4300)
    • FAStT600 Turbo (renamed DS4300 Turbo)
    • FAStT700 (renamed to DS4400)
    • FAStT900 (renamed to DS4500)
  • Enterprise Storage Server (or ESS, or Shark; predecessor of DS8000 Series)
  • DCS9550 (based on the DataDirect Networks S2A9550)

[edit] Tape Systems

[edit] Current Tape Drives

The IBM tape product range includes drives and tapes based on LTO and Magstar derived formats.

  • TS1120 - tape drive supporting 3592 media
  • TS2230 - half-height, single slot LTO-3
  • TS2340 - single slot LTO-4 (equivalent to the previous LTO 3580 tape drive)

[edit] Current Tape Libraries

  • TS3100 - one or two LTO-3, LTO-4 or LTO-5 drive library (24 cartridges)
  • TS3200 - one or two LTO-3, LTO-4 or LTO-5 drive library (48 cartridges)
  • TS3310 - expandable library with up to 18 LTO-3, LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives (409 cartridges maximum with expansion modules)
  • TS3400 - one or two TS1120 drive library (18 cartridges)
  • TS3500 - ultrascalable tape library with LTO or 3592 drives (up to 16 frames, 192 drives and over 20,000 cartridges capacity)

[edit] Current Tape Virtualization Products

[edit] Other Storage Devices

  • Real Time Compression Engine
  • ProtecTIER
  • Information Archive

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ "NetApp to Purchase Engenio External Storage Systems Business of LSI Corporation". NetApp. http://www.netapp.com/us/company/news/news-rel-20110309-364618.html. 
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