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IBM System Storage Product Guide
Cost effective and reliable access to your information
People need access to information so they can make knowledgeable decisions that lead to growth and increased profitability. Your challenge is making sure that information is
always available, when and where it is needed, to fuel the
cycle of creative thinking that leads to innovation.
IBM System Storage™ solutions help you more successfully
support your business by cr
eating IT environments that:
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Protect information assets and enable data sharing and
collaboration across your enterprise in real time
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More easily handle changing business requirements
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Manage information effectively by matching the value of your
information to how it is stored and accessed at each point in
its life cycle
Only IBM delivers the depth and breadth of intelligent storage
solutions and expertise to help you r
eliably bring information to
people in a cost-effective way.
Empower your people to innovate and make more informed
business decisions
Innovate faster and help ensure that the information that fuels
creative thinking and decision making is available in real time
with IBM System Storage solutions.
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Automate and simplify IT operations with revolutionary
IBM System Storage solutions—so you can focus on your
business and spend less time managing your infrastructure
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Increase your return on people and create an environment
for competitive advantage by capitalizing on data sharing
and collaboration across the enterprise in real time with
IBM System Storage offerings
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Fuel your innovation engine with complete solutions that
leverage IBM’s unmatched expertise, strong synergy
between servers and storage, award-winning storage software and extensive partner network
Get the most value from your information
Protect and fully leverage your information assets by using
intelligent management solutions from IBM—solutions that
enable your IT staff to implement the most cost-effective storage options based on the value and service level of the information at each point in its lifecycle.
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Align your storage investment with the value of your information using comprehensive tiered storage, policy-based
automation and intelligent information management solutions
from IBM
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Confidently protect your strategic information assets and efficiently comply with regulatory and security requirements with
the unrivaled breadth of storage solutions from IBM
Make your business more responsive with an informationcentric IT environment
Manage and adapt to growing and changing business needs
with an IT environment that makes critical information always
available—without disruption.
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Keep your business running with continuous access to information through industry-leading business continuity solutions
from IBM System Storage
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Rapidly adapt to evolving business needs by creating an
open, flexible, on demand infrastructure that scales as you
grow—without disrupting ongoing operations—using proven
IBM System Storage solutions
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Optimize and protect your IT investment with
marketplace-leading virtualization capabilities, superior multivendor interoperability and cost-effective storage solutions
from IBM
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Disk Storage Systems/System Storage Software
IBM System Storage DR550 and DR550 Express
Model
An award-winning information archiving and retention solution designed to:
Highlights
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store, retrieve, manage, share and secure all types of data (e-mail, database, documents, images, files, etc.)
provide non-erasable, non-rewritable archival storage. Prevents deletion or alteration of data stored on the
system.
support multiple storage tiers for long term archiving (disk, tape and optical)
provide the facilities to migrate archive data from aging disk or tape subsystems to new ones
offer automatic provisioning, migration, expiration and archiving capabilities
offer scalability up to 112 TB raw physical capacity and supports petabytes of storage with attached tape and
optical
offer chronological and event-based data retention
offer high availability option to avoid single points of failure
provide security and protection through data encryption and data shredding options
support and integrate with broad set of IBM and non-IBM content management applications
provide file archiving through the new IBM System Storage DR550 File System Gateway
protect customer data against disasters through Synchronous or Asynchronous Replication
offer low TCO through the use of multiple storage devices for long period archiving
Carefree Services—for onsite software/firmware upgrades and three year warranty repair and maintenance
(24x7, four hour response)
Scalability DR550: Single engine: 8 TB and 16 TB, Dual engine: 8, 16, 32, 56, 112 TB of raw physical storage, up to
petabytes with attached tape and optical stora
ge.
DR550 Express 1.1, 5.1 and 9.1 TB configurations.
Nodes Single- or dual-server configurations Dual-ser
ver configuration offers failover protection
Processors DR550: 2-way 2.1 GHz POWER5+™ Processor Card, 36 MB L3 Cache
DR550 Express: 1-way 1.65 GHz POWER5+ Processor Card,
no L3 Cache
Network protocol support IBM System Storage Archive Manager (SSAM) application programming interface (API) v5.4
Operating system IBM AIX, Version 5.3
Performance Performance testing results: ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/dr/performance.html
PCI slots available N/A
Network connectivity 2 port Gigabit Copper or F
ibre Ethernet (upgrades available)
ECC SDRAM
memory (max)
1 GB per node
Data protection Mirrored OS, RAID
-5, RAID-10 (opt.) for user da
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Data Encryption for enhanced security for disk and tape via 128-bit AES or 56-bit DES encryption technology.
Encryption keys can be managed by the application or by the DR550. Maintains data as non-erasable and nonrewritable until deletion is permitted by retention policy.
Redundancy/high
availability
IBM HACMP 5.3 (Dual-server configura
tion), redundant DS4700 controllers, RDAC driver to provide path failover,
RAID
Backup External tape (recommended IBM 3592 WORM tape)
RAID levels RAID-5, RAID-10 (opt.)
Systems management SMIT,
DS4000 Storage Manager GUI, SNMP
Storage management IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client and storage agent
Create a tiered storage environment and help increase the flexibility and efficiency of your storage infrastructure by introducing solutions based on
IBM System Storage virtualization software.
Product Function and Value Highlights
IBM System Stora Based on virtualization technology, the
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Manage storage volumes from a central point: SVC is designed to
ge SAN Volume
IBM System Storage SAN Volume
enhance the flexibility of your storage environment. It can combine the stor-
Controller (SVC)
Controller is designed to increase the
age capacity from multiple disk systems from different suppliers into a sin-
efficiency and flexibility of your storage
gle pool of storage that can be managed from a central point. In this way,
infrastructure by pooling storage and
fewer skills are required and storage administrators can become more pro-
centralizing management, and enabling
ductive.
changes to the physical storage while
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Virtually eliminate downtime related to storage: SVC enables data
avoiding disruption to
migrations, maintenance and upgrades to the SVC system itself, and
applications.
changes to the physical storage without impacting host applications.
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Improve storage resource utilization: By combining the storage capacity
from multiple disk systems into a single pool, SVC uses existing storage
capacity more efficiently, which can defer additional storage purchases to
save costs.
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A single, cost-effective set of advanced copy services: SVC can apply
copy services across all the managed storage, regardless of the disk system
supplier. This capability helps simplify the environment, reduce the costs of
implementing disaster recovery solutions, increases flexibility in using storage and increases personnel productivity.
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Create a tiered storage environment: Using virtualization technology, SVC
enables customers to match the cost of the storage to the value of their
data. For example, mission-critical data can be stored on high-performance,
highly available Fibre-Channel disks while non-mission-critical data can be
stored on serial-ATA disks. Data can easily be moved from one tier to
another without application disruption.
Adds value to the storage subsystem solution by providing information for better management.
Product Function and Value
IBM TotalStorage ETL Expert Provides a high-performance monitoring tool to help simplify the management of IBM tape subsystems that
include the IBM T
otalStorage Enterprise Tape Library, Virtual Tape Server and Peer-to-Peer Virtual Tape Server
IBM TotalStorage XRC Provides the ability to monitor and evaluate the performance of a running XRC configuration; the monitor func-
Performance Monitor
tion provides information at the real-time,
historic and summary levels
Provides automated and central storage management in the z/OS environment
Product Function and Value
DFSMSdfp™ Provides da
ta access,
program and device management functions that furnish effective management of active
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DFSMSdss™ Provides data movement, copy, backup and space management functions
DFSMShsm™ Provides backup,
recovery, migration and space mana
gement functions that furnish effective management of
inactive data
DFSMSrmm™ Provides a policy-driven solution for the management of removable media, such as tape cartridges and reels
DFSORT™ Provides a solution for faster and easier da
ta sorting, reporting and analysis
DFSMStvs Enables batch jobs and IBM CICS® (Customer Information Control Systems) online transactions to update
shared VSAM da
ta sets concurrently
* Please visit ibm.com/storage/nas for additional N3700 performance information.
** Please visit ibm.com/storage/dr550 for current DR550 performance results.
† For more information on third-party product support, please refer to “IBM NAS Interoperability” at ibm.com/storage/nas.
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Disk Storage Virtualization
IBM TotalStorage Expert Family
DFSMS Family
System Storage Software/System Storage Services
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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Function and Value Highlights
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is designed to provide protection of
your 24x7 applications and key data in the event of hardware, able data in the most costsoftware or network failures. It offers move-and-store tech- effective manner
niques and policy-based automation, which are designed to
work together to help increase data and application protection, tive data to help reduce
decrease disaster recovery time and lower storage administra- costs
tion costs. It manages inactive data, helping you match the
value of the data to the most cost-effective storage manage- continuity and recovery
ment practices. Tivoli Storage Manager is designed to scale
easily to protect hundreds of computers running a dozen operating systems ranging from laptops to mainframes and connected together via the Internet, WANs, LANs or SANs. Tivoli
Storage Manager also offers open, easy-to-use APIs designed
to enable ISVs to more easily adapt their solutions to IBM software, helping to allow joint customers to customize, better
secure and extend the functionality of their storage
environment.
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Designed to protect valu-
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Designed to archive inac-
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Designed to help ensure
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
Product Function and Value Highlights
IBM TotalStorage
Productivity
Center for Disk
In a pooled or virtualized SAN
environment, multiple devices
work together to create a storage
solution. IBM TotalStorage
Productivity Center for Disk is
designed to provide integrated
administration, optimization and
replication features for these
environments.
IBM TotalStorage
Productivity
Center for
Replication
TotalStorage Productivity Center
For Replication is designed to
simplify and automate the configuration of your replication environment allowing for more
effective Metro Mirroring, Global
Mirror and IBM FlashCopy management. It is also designed to
monitor and automate copy operations across devices to support a
replication environment.
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Designed to help reduce the
complexity and cost of storage
management while improving
data availability
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Offers centralized, open
standards–based management
of storage devices
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Designed to help enhance
storage administrator
productivity
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Offers proactive management
of storage devices
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Automates the configuration of
your IBM DS8000, DS6000™
and ESS advanced copy services features.
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Monitors and manages the
IBM DS8000 and SVC copy
operations to ensure successful completion from your
source volumes to your disaster recovery volumes
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
IBM TotalStorage TPC for Replica
Productivity
Center for
Replication Two
Site Business
Continuity
Three Site Business Continuity
provides disaster recovery management through planned and
unplanned failover and failback
automation for the IBM ESS
Model 800, IBM DS6000 and
IBM DS8000.
IBM TotalStorage IBM TotalStorage Productivity
Productivity
Center for Data
Center for Data is a Storage optimize existing storage
Resource Management (SRM)
tool for storage environments that
provide a set of policy-driven
automated tools for managing
storage capacity, availability, storage utilization
events, performance and assets,
including DAS, NAS and SAN
technologies.
tion Two Site and
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
IBM TotalStorage IBM TotalStorage Productivity
Productivity
Center for Fabric
IBM TotalStorage Combines Disk, Data and Fabric
Productivity
Center Standard
Edition
Center for Fabric is designed to age network failures before
help automate the management they happen, enabling prevenof heterogeneous storage net- tative maintenance
works and works with a broad
range of devices, so businesses
can leverage and better use existing technology investments. It is
designed to provide comprehensive management of physical and
logical configurations for multivendor SANs with automatic
resource discovery, event monitoring and alerting, zone control
and SAN error-prediction
capabilities.
components together as one allows higher levels of value—
orderable product.
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TPC for Replication Two Site
and Three Site Business
Continuity helps you manage
replication to a remote backup
site(s) through Metro Mirror or
Global Mirror. The software is
designed to allow you to monitor the progress of the copy
services so you can verify the
amount of replication that has
been done as well as the
amount of time needed to
complete the replication.
Automated failover is designed
to keep your critical data online
and available to your users
even if your primary site fails.
When the primary site comes
back on, the software manages failback to the default
configuration as well.
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Designed to help leverage and
resources and perform storage
management with a high level
of control
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Designed to help maximize
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Designed to be able to manage
more storage with the same
staff
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Designed to help predict stor-
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Designed to help accelerate
problem isolation when failures
occur
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Designed to create a single
point of control, administration
and security for the management of heterogeneous storage
networks
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Having Disk, Data and Fabric
i.e. combined SAN and Disk
performance reports or automated workflows to do provisioning (under the control of
Tivoli Provisioning Manager)
IBM Global Services for System Storage and Storage
Networking
Data Storage Services from IBM can help companies achieve their business objectives
by creating cost-effective data storage solutions that address the requirements of key
business applications. These solutions can support multiple platforms and product vendors, helping to provide enhanced protection for critical business data, increased asset
utilization, availability and reliability levels with reduced management costs.
IBM Global Services, as the leading data storage services provider, brings best practices
from its thousands of customer engagements to work with your employees to integrate
new solutions and technology with your business and IT needs. IBM offers a comprehensive portfolio of data storage services including:
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Analysis of enterprise information needs and environment
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Defined enterprise-wide storage strategies
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Quantified business benefits
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Backup/restore and business continuity planning
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Performance and capacity planning
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Enterprise security architecture
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Storage migration and consolidation
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Networked storage architecture design
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SAN configuration and integration services
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Proof of concept, validation and certification
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Implementation, testing and migration services
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Education and training
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Installation, relocation, cabling and site preparation
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Business and application recovery services
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Systems monitoring and management
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Managed Storage Services
IBM Global Services has a track record in offering services for open and mainframe storage, data migration, installation and support services for IBM and non-IBM environments.
Some examples are:
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IBM Storage Strategy Assessment assists with the vision and strategy, assessment,
architecture and conceptual designs to help customers optimize their storage infrastructure to new architectures.
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IBM Planning Services for 3494 Automated Tape Library and Virtual Tape Server can
help improve tape storage management and gain control of an often expanding library
of tapes.
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IBM Operational Support Services for Tivoli Storage Manager assists customers in the
planning and implementation of storage management software.
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IBM Managed Storage Services offer scalable, cost-effective storage capacity, management and backup/restore services on a usage basis.
More information about IBM storage services can be found at
ibm.com/services/storage.
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