The IBM System Storage DS3500 Express is a modular data storage system with balanced mixed workload performance and a rich set of application aware management tools. The DS3500 uses the latest 6 Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface for the back-end connection to disk drives and a rich set of front-end server connectivity options. The iSCSI host attach option leverages the affordability and ubiquity of industry standard Ethernet technology. The high performance 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) host attach option provides connectivity for applications with high performance and availability requirements. SAS, which has traditionally been used for an affordable connection to entry level disk arrays (often referred to as just a bunch of disks, or JBOD), is also supported for high speed, low cost host connectivity.

Supporting up to 4 GB/sec of throughput and 40,000 IOPS, the key capabilities of the DS3500 include:

• Four native 6 Gbps SAS host interfaces.
• Up to eight additional 1 Gbps iSCSI host interfaces.
• Up to eight additional 8 Gbps FC host interfaces.
• Up to four additional 6 Gbps SAS interfaces.
• Up to 96 high-speed SAS, cost-effective nearline SAS, self encrypting, or solid state drives.
• 3.5 and 2.5 inch drive enclosures.
• Up to 4 GB of cache.
• Advanced recovery capabilities, including snapshots and volume copies.
• Advanced availability capabilities, including dual controllers and remote replication.

A growing set of application aware management plug-ins provide tight integration with management tools from Microsoft, VMware, Oracle and others. Plug-ins simplify the management of DS3500 storage with built-in provisioning, monitoring, event management, and advanced data recovery. A growing set of management frameworks are supported, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM), and Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Related Solutions:

Microsoft Windows Server Platforms, Redhat Linux, Suse linux, Oracle, Vmvare

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IBM System Storage DS3500 Express

System Storage DS3500

IBM System Storage DS3500