Highlights
- 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interface technology
- Up to 1550 MBps bandwidth for high throughput applications
- SATA-only hard disk drives supported
- Includes IBM System StorageT DS4000T Storage Manager to help centrally manage the DS4000 Series
- Four total host channels with dual controllers for increased connectivity
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4 Gb Fibre Channel interface technology
The IBM System Storage DS4200 disk storage system supports a high-performance 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interface for increased host connectivity to deliver necessary bandwidth for high throughput applications. Designed for data-intensive applications that demand increased connectivity provided by four 4 Gbps host channels designed to provide up to 1550 MBps of sustained bandwidth for high throughput applications through the four channels directly attached to the host servers or connected to a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN).
Designed to help lower your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
The IBM System Storage DS4200 Disk Storage System offers customers a SAN solution to take advantage of the performance offered by 4 Gbps technology. The IBM DS4200 4 Gbps SAN product is designed to offer up to 1550 MBps throughput with up to 121,500 IOPS (input/output per second). A 4 Gbps storage array requires as few as half the number of ports compared to a 2 Gbps storage array to deliver equal throughput. This frees up ports in the SAN for each array.
On the host side, if a server requires more than two 2 Gbps host bus adapters (HBAs) to attain the required performance (a server should have at least two HBAs for availability), then that number can be halved with 4 Gbps. Fewer HBAs help lower the number of switch ports used.
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Product features
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| · Dynamic Capacity Expansion (DCE) |
| · System Storage DS4000 Storage Manager software |
| · Ability to mix FC and SATA disk attachment units |
| · IBM FlashCopy® to take point-in-time copies of logical volumes |
| · Dynamic Volume Expansion |
| · VolumeCopy feature is designed to provide full replication of one logical volume to another |
| · Enhanced Remote Mirror to multi-LUN applications |
· Share a common pool of hot-spare disk drives among multiple DS4200 systems
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Hardware summary
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| · Up to 2 GB cache battery-backed |
| · 4 host ports and 4 drive ports-Fibre Channel (FC) Switched and FC Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) standard, Host auto-sensing 1 Gbps/2 Gbps/4 Gbps, Drive auto-sensing 4Gbps |
| · Supports SATA 7,200 rpm 750 GB |
| · RAID level 0, 1, 3, 5 and 10 support |
| · Up to 64 storage partitions |
| · 112 SATA drives (using 6 DS4000 EXP420 Expansion Units) |
| · Dual redundant, hot-swappable cooling fans |
· 19-inch, industry-standard rack
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