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IBM System Storage DS5000 series

Highlights

• Balanced performance - up to 700,000 IOPs and 6400 Mbps - is well-suited for virtualization and consolidation
• Scalable up to 448 drives using the EXP5000 enclosure and up to 960 TB of high-density storage with the EXP5060 enclosure
• Support for intermixing drive types—FC, FC-SAS, SED, SATA and SSD—and host interfaces—Fibre Channel and iSCSI—for investment protection and cost-effective tiered storage
• Central management of all IBM System Storage DS series products while maximizing utilization and lowering costs
• Designed to support high availability with hot-swappable components and non-disruptive firmware upgrades
• Supports IBM AIX and Power Systems T10-PI Data Integrity Initiative

The IBM® System Storage® DS5000 series is designed to meet today’s and tomorrow’s demanding open-systems requirements while establishing a new standard for life cycle longevity. Building on many decades of design expertise, the DS5000 storage system’s architecture delivers industry-leading performance, real reliability, multidimensional scalability and unprecedented investment protection.

The DS5000 storage systems are equally adept at supporting transactional applications such as databases and On Line Transaction Processing OLTP, throughput-intensive applications such as high-performance computing (HPC) and rich media, and concurrent workloads for consolidation and virtualization. With relentless performance and superior reliability and availability, DS5000 series storage systems can support the most demanding service level agreements (SLAs) for the most common operating systems, including Microsoft® Windows®, UNIX® and Linux®. And when requirements change, you can add or replace host interfaces, grow capacity, add cache and reconfigure the system on the fly—ensuring that it will keep pace with your growing company.

This multidimensional scalability allows a DS5000 series storage system to extend beyond the normal three- to four-year life cycle, protecting your storage investment by delaying (or even eliminating) the expense of migrating data to a new system and allowing you to amortize acquisition costs over extended periods of time. This life-cycle longevity enables DS5000 storage systems to continue delivering value long after other systems have been retired. With drive-level encryption DS5000 series systems support affordable data security with no performance penalty. And the DS5000 storage system’s multiple replication options, drive level encryption, and persistent cache backup can help ensure that any data in cache is captured and safe in the event of a power outage.