Highlights
- Heterogeneous unified storage environment-Designed to provide unified storage access for multiprotocol, multivendor Storage environments
- Storage consolidation-Designed to enable organizations to consolidate UNIX®, Linux®, Windows® and Web workloads with existing SAN storage, thereby helping to increase storage utilization.
- Utilizing existing SAN infrastructure-Designed to integrate into existing SAN storage environments, helping to optimize investment protection and ROI.
- Data Management-Designed to provide advanced data management solutions that maximize availability and can help to significantly reduce operational cost
- Comprehensive software suite-Designed to provide robust system management, copy services, virtualization technologies and disaster recovery and backup capabilities across all SAN resources
 Data Sheet on the N5000 Gateway for SAN Storage Environments
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The challenge: Improving storage utilization and access
As enterprise storage requirements evolved from direct-attached to networked storage, many enterprises made significant investments in multiple storage architectures-DAS, SAN and NAS-to support the different access methods required by business solutions. The result was often inefficient and under-utilized storage environments. A critical IT management challenge is to optimize the usage of existing storage to improve efficiency and return on investment (ROI) yet continue to support different access methods for different business solutions throughout the enterprise.
File-level usage and distributed enterprise usage of the SAN environment are ways to improve access and usage of storage resources. Many enterprises, however, are not ready to replace their existing storage systems with new, unified ones. Instead, companies with extensive SAN storage networks are looking for ways to broaden the use of their infrastructures and achieve a greater return on investment by provisioning SAN capacity for new business solutions that require NAS-shared data access and remote access.
The solution: IBM System Storage N5000 Gateway
The IBM System StorageT N5000 Gateway is a network-based solution designed to provide heterogeneous access to Fibre Channel attached storage arrays. The Gateway can help you leverage the dynamic provisioning capabilities of Data ONTAP® software across your existing Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure to support an expanded set of business applications. The IBM N5000 Gateway is based on the Data ONTAP microkernel operating system, which is designed to unify block and file storage networking paradigms under a common architecture. The N5000 Gateway features a comprehensive suite of advanced data management capabilities to help you consolidate, protect, and recover mission-critical data for enterprise applications and users.
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Product features
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| · Data ONTAP 7 software |
| · SnapshotT, Fast Boot, FlexVol® software |
· Telnet, e-mail alerts, NIS, DNS, SNMP, FilerView®, NDMP, antivirus, LDAP capabilities
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Hardware summary
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| · Redundant hot-plug cooling fans |
| · Redundant hot-plug power supplies |
| · Diagnostic LED/LCD |
| · 19" rack-mount enclosure |
· Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP), iSCSI; fabric-attached and direct-attached
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