IBM N6060, N6070, N6040 User Manual

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

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.

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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

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