Highlights
- 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interface technology
- Up to 1724 MBps bandwidth for high throughput applications
- Intermix of Fibre Channel and SATA hard disk drives supported in the EXP810 storage expansion unit
- Includes IBM System StorageT DS4000T Storage Manager to help centrally manage the DS4000 series
- Eight host channels for increased connectivity
- Supports intermix of EXP810, EXP710 and EXP100
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The IBM System StorageT DS4800 disk storage system supports a high-performance 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interface for increased host connectivity to deliver necessary bandwidth for high-throughput applications. It is designed for data-intensive applications that demand increased connectivity provided by eight 4 Gbps host channels designed to provide up to 1724 MBps of sustained bandwidth for high-throughput applications through the eight channels directly attached to the host servers or connected to a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN).
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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 DS4800 systems
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Hardware summary
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| · Up to 8 GB cache battery-backed (2 GB addressable) |
| · Eight host ports and eight drive ports-Fibre Channel (FC) Switched and FC Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) standard, auto-sensing 1 Gbps/2 Gbps/4 Gbps |
| · Supports 36.4 GB, 73.4 GB, 146.8 GB and 300 GB 10,000 rpm drives and 36.4 GB, 73.4 GB, 146.8 GB and 300 GB 15,000 rpm drives, 400 GB, 500 GB and 750 GB 7200 rpm drives |
| · RAID level 0, 1, 3, 5 and 10 support |
| · 8, 16 or 64 storage partitions |
| · 224 FC drives (using 14 DS4000 EXP810, 16 using DS4000 EXP710 Expansion Units) or 224 SATA drives (using 16 DS4000 EXP100 Expansion Units). Supports intermix of EXP810, EXP710 and EXP100 Expansion Units. |
| · Dual redundant, hot-swappable cooling fans |
· 19-inch, industry-standard rack
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