Expanding the possibilities for your business with a storage system
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Meet diverse and changing
needs. Consolidate diverse
data sets onto a unified storage
platform that provides simulta-
neous block and file ser
vices
for business and technical
applications.
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Perform when your applications
need it most. Outstanding file-
based and transaction-based
performance with high band-
width, 64-bit architecture, and
the latest I/O technologies.
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Respond to growth. Thin provi-
sioning helps you eliminate
stranded storage. Preser
ve
investments in staff expertise
and capital equipment with
data-in-place upgrades to more
powerful N series systems while
running the same OS and using
the same management tools.
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Maximize your resources.
Highly efficient storage utiliza-
tion makes it possible for you
to dramatically reduce your
consumption of raw storage,
power
, cooling, and space.
■
Improve your business effi-
ciency. Clients with different
storage subsystems in their
SAN environments can now
take advantage of the N6000
series Gateway capabilities to
help improve business effi-
ciency and reduce data
management complexity.
Today’s business environment demands
innovation and incr
easingly flawless
execution. You are asked to manage
and protect valuable data to enable
business growth and success. Change
can be continuous and your IT opera-
tions have to evolve while adhering to
hard limits on budget, staffing, and
infrastructure. Virtualized computing,
the latest wave of change, is quickly
becoming the norm. It calls for net-
worked storage systems that you can
use to consolidate diverse data sets
and unlock the full potential of virtual-
ized servers.
Now you can simultaneously meet your
diverse needs—SAN and NAS, primary
and secondary storage—and pr
ovide
high levels of application availability for
your critical business operations to
technical applications. With IBM N6000
series systems, you get outstanding
value: our flexible systems offer excel-
lent performance and impressive scala-
bility at a low total cost of ownership.
IBM System Storage N6000 series
Highlights
IBM N series systems enable easy pro-
visioning, managing, and upgrading so
you can quickly adapt your storage
infrastructure to meet your changing
business and technical needs. To help
you maximize staff productivity, all
IBM N series systems use the Data
ONTAP® operating system and the
same suite of application-aware man-
agement software.
The IBM N6000 series systems offer a
versatile storage platform for handling
the large amounts of diverse data mov-
ing through your business. With an
N6000 series system, you can consoli-
date these varied data sets onto a
unified storage platform supporting
simultaneous block and file services for
business and technical applications.
With IBM N6000 series, you can unlock
the full potential of your growing virtual-
ized server environment by enabling vir-
tual machine mobility and offloading the
work of data protection. The N6000
systems enable you to connect your
heterogeneous server environment
(including Windows®, UNIX®, and
Linux® servers) and clients to one stor-
age system by using standard storage
protocols and interfaces.
IBM N6000 series systems can help
you spend less time on backup and
recovery, so you can focus your energy
and creativity on growing your busi-
ness. Our full range of enterprise-class,
high-availability, and disaster-recovery
products provide affordable software for
data protection to help safeguard your
business-critical application’s data.
IBM N series Snapshot™ technology
helps reduce backup times to minutes;
SnapRestore® software enables
recovery of point-in-time data, also in
minutes.
IBM N series SnapManager® software
quickly r
eturns applications to the same
point in time as recovered data. All of
this built on the solid foundation of our
low-overhead, dual-parity RAID-DP™—
the IBM N series implementation of
high-performance RAID 6 for better
data protection and capacity utilization
than RAID 5 and RAID 1+0.
The IBM N6000 series offers compelling
performance across a wide range of
application workloads—file services,
OLTP, and messaging and collabora-
tion, to name just a few. The high-
bandwidth, 64-bit controller architecture
with large memory cache and the latest
I/O technologies help provide data at
the rates you need to keep your
demanding business and technical
applications running smoothly
. Your
critical applications can take priority
under peak load conditions with our
FlexShare™ quality of service software.
The Performance Acceleration Module
gives you a new way to optimize the
performance of your storage system—
an intelligent read cache that improves
throughput and reduces latency for file
services and other random read inten-
sive workloads.
Features such as these can help you
meet demanding service levels and
achieve a faster time to market for your
critical new pr
oducts and services.
In today’s business environment, it
seems the data your systems collect
grows relentlessly, regardless of
your company’s size. With versatile
IBM N6000 series systems, you can
combine high-performance Fibre
Channel and large-capacity SATA disk
drives in storage tiers for optimal per-
formance and cost. And on the same
system, you can seamlessly consolidate
block and file storage. IBM N series
makes this possible by providing native
support of the FCP, iSCSI, NFS and
CIFS storage protocols through both
Fibre Channel and Ethernet interfaces.
Versatility for your diverse business needs
Increase data and application availability
Performance when your applications and
users need it
Respond to your data growth challenges
IBM N series offers an innovative thin
provisioning capability to help you
eliminate stranded storage by expand-
ing or contracting LUNs and volumes
by using a common pool of spare
capacity without IT staff intervention.
When more performance or scalability
is required, you can preserve invest-
ments in staff expertise and capital
equipment by installing a more powerful
N series controller that enables you to
keep your data in place and use the
same management tools.
IBM N6000 series systems can help
you reduce costs in many aspects of
your storage environment by simplifying
data management and maximizing stor-
age utilization to conserve raw storage,
power, cooling, and data center space.
N6000 systems can help you spend
less time waiting and more time inno-
vating, thanks to high system perform-
ance, fast backup, and recovery, and
rapid cloning of data sets.
Clients with different storage subsys-
tems in their SAN environments can
now take advantage of the N6000
series Gateway capabilities to help
improve business efficiency and
reduce data management complexity.
IBM N6000 series ordered under
Gateway structure is able to support
the attachment to a broad range of
IBM, EMC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, 3PAR, and
HP storage subsystems, including the
IBM Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS)
series, IBM System Storage™
DS8000™, and DS4000™ series.
Software
Maximize your resources
Improve your business efficiency
Operating system
Operating systems supported
Software features Standard
Data ONTAP
Windows 2000, Windows Server® 2003, Windows XP, Linux, Sun™ Solaris™, IBM AIX®,
HP-UX, Mac OS, VMware ESX
Integrated RAID manager, including RAID-DP; Snapshot; Fast Boot; NIS; DNS; FilerView®;
FlexVol®; FlexShare; Disk Sanitization; SecureAdmin™; Network Data Management
Protocol (NDMP)
Licensed
CIFS; NFS; HTTP; FTP; iSCSI; FCP; FlexCache™; FlexClone®; FlexScale; MultiStore®;
Clustered Failover; SnapMirror®; SyncMirror®; SnapRestore; Single Mailbox Recovery;
Open Systems Snap Vault; SnapVault®; SnapMover®; NearStore®; Advanced Single
Instance Storage; SnapValidator®; SnapLock®; MetroCluster
Manageability software
Application Suite; SnapManager for Microsoft® Exchange; SnapManager for Microsoft SQL
Server®; SnapManager for Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server; SnapManager for Oracle;
SnapManager for SAP; SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure; Server Suite; SnapDrive®;
Virtual File Manager™ – Enterprise Edition; Virtual File Manager – Migration Edition; Storage
Suite; Protection Manager; Provisioning Manager; File Storage Resource Manager;
Operations Manager
Specifica
N6040
Machine Type Model 2858-A10 2858-A20 2858-A12 2858-A22 2858-A11 2858-A21
Controller Configuration Single Dual
Processors Speed and Type 2.4 GHz AMD Dual-core 64-bit Opteron
Number of Processors 1 2 2 4 2 4
Random Access Memory 4 GB 8 GB 8 GB 16 GB 16 GB 32 GB
Nonvolatile Memory 512 MB 1 GB 2 GB 4 GB 2 GB 4 GB
N6040
(active/active)
tions
N6060 N6060 N6070 N6070
Single Dual
(active/active)
Single Dual
(active/active)
Integrated I/O Ports
Fibre Channel Ports (Speed) 4 (4-Gbps) 8 (4-Gbps) 4 (4-Gbps) 8 (4-Gbps) 4 (4-Gbps) 8 (4-Gbps)
Ethernet Ports (Speed) 2 (1-Gbps) 4 (1-Gbps) 2 (1-Gbps) 4 (1-Gbps) 2 (1-Gbps) 4 (1-Gbps)
Storage Scalability
Maximum Number of Fibre
Channel Loops
Maximum Raw Capacity 420 TB 420 TB 672 TB 672 TB 840 TB 840 TB
Maximum Number of Disk
Drives
Maximum Volume Size 16 TB 16 TB 16 TB 16 TB 16 TB 16 TB
Maximum Number of
Volumes/LUNs
Maximum Number of Storage
Enclosures
Maximum Number of FC or
iSCSI SAN connected servers
(per controller and per
active/active configuration)
10 10 10 10 10 10
420 420 672 672 840 840
2048 2048 2048 2048 2048 2048
30 30 48 48 60 60
256
I/O Scalability
PCI-e Expansion Slots 4 8 4 8 4 8
Maximum number of FC Ports 20 40 20 40 20 40
Maximum number of Ethernet
Ports
Maximum Number of Optional
Adapters
18 36 18 36 18 36
4 8 4 8 4 8
Storage Expansion Unit Disk Drive Support
EXN4000 – 4-Gbps Fibre
Channel Disk Storage
Expansion Unit (MTM 2863-004)
EXN1000 SATA disk storage
expansion unit (MTM 2861-001)
4-Gbps Fibre Channel: 300 GB, 10,000, 15,000 rpm; 450GB, 15,000 rpm
2-Gbps Fibre Channel: 300 GB, 10,000, 15,000 rpm; 450GB, 15,000 rpm
SATA: 500 GB, 7,200 rpm; 750 GB, 7,200 rpm, 1 TB
For more information
Contact your IBM representative or
IBM Business Partner, or visit:
ibm.com/systems/storage/network
For N6000 series modular disk storage
system technical specifications and
optional adapter car
ds, visit:
ibm.com/systems/storage/network/
n6000/appliance
For N6000 series interoperability and
tape drive support, visit:
ibm.com/systems/storage/network/
interophome.html
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