Designed as reliable, powerful, scalable modular storage systems
■
Scalable—Designed for non-
disruptive expansion to more
than 1.1 petabytes (1.1 PB, or
1100 TB) storage capacity
■
Versatile—Single, integrated
architecture designed to sup-
port concurrent block I/O and
file ser
ving over Ethernet
and Fibre Channel SAN
infrastructures
■
Flexible—Fibre Channel and
SAT
A disk-drive capabilities
allow for deployment in multiple
solution environments, includ-
ing data retention, near-line
storage, disk-to-disk backup
scenarios and high-
performance, mission-critical
I/O intensive operations
■
Efficient consolidation—
Intended to provide storage for
multiple applications in a single
system with FlexShare™ to
ensure that critical workloads
get priority service
■
Application availability—N7000
systems with Data ONTAP
®
enable application-level recov-
ery in minutes, not hours, upon
failure or user error
■
Performance—Delivers high,
consistent performance for
mission-critical applications
In an increasingly demanding and com-
petitive business landscape, effective
data management is essential to the
success of the enterprise. Data avail-
ability from any location gives employ-
ees, partners and customers the
up-to-the-minute information they need
to work pr
oductively
, make timely deci-
sions and meet business goals.
Information technology professionals
facing these challenges are under pres-
sure to deliver more capacity and at
higher levels of service. Yet critical
resources—staffing, budget, power,
cooling and floor space—are often
constrained.
These demands call for enterprise-class
storage systems with the flexibility to
support changing IT requirements,
accommodate continuous data growth,
satisfy application-level service r
equire-
ments and unify SAN and NAS infra-
structures with the expectation of
reducing overall costs.
offering a unified storage architecture—with exceptional value—
for large-enterprise data center applications and consolidations
IBM System Storage N7000 Modular
Disk Storage Systems
Highlights
The challenge: Managing data for business
antage
adv
The solution: IBM System Storage N7000
The IBM System Storage™ N7000
series systems are intended to help IT
organizations tackle the challenge of
effective data management using virtu-
alization technology and a unified stor-
age architecture. The N7000 series is
designed to deliver high-end enterprise
storage and data management value
with midrange affordability. Built-in
enterprise serviceability and managea-
bility features help support your efforts
to increase reliability, simplify and unify
storage infrastructure and maintenance,
and deliver exceptional economy.
The N7000 series, like all N series sys-
tems, pr
ovides powerful virtualization
and thin-pr
ovisioning capabilities
designed to maximize storage utilization
and staf
f productivity while minimizing
the use of power, cooling and floor
space. Staff productivity can be
enhanced by an integrated suite of
application-aware manageability soft-
ware that can provide policy-based
automation to otherwise manual tasks.
The IBM N7000 series is designed to
provide remarkable versatility by unify-
ing FC SAN, iSCSI SAN, NAS, primary
,
nearline and regulatory compliance data
retention and archival storage in a sin-
gle integrated architecture. N series
systems ar
e designed for easy installa-
tion, configuration, management and
expansion. The combination of versatil-
ity and simplicity of N series systems is
intended to help IT professionals
respond quickly to changing business
needs.
The N7000 series combines the bene-
fits of a unified storage architecture
suite of application-aware software with
massive scalability, which is intended to
provide an ideal platform for large-scale
data center applications and storage
consolidations.
Scalability. The N7000 series is
designed to meet the massive storage
scalability and I/O scalability needs that
are critical in large data center environ-
ments. The N7900 system can be con-
figur
ed with 1.176 PB of raw storage
capacity using up to 1,176 disk drives.
The N7700 system can support 840 TB
of capacity using as many as 840 disk
drives.
Both the N7900 and the N7700 sys-
tems offer high-bandwidth controller
designs, which can be in an active-
active configuration. Each system
of
fers sixteen 4-Gbps Fibre Channel
(FC) ports and twelve Gigabit Ethernet
(GbE) ports standard with the system’s
ten PCI-e and six PCI-x expansion slots
that can accommodate quad-port
4-Gbps FC adapter cards and ten GbE
adapter cards. For additional connectiv-
ity, the N7000 series can expand to a
maximum of 56 Fibre Channel ports
and 52 Ethernet ports.
Versatility. The unified storage ar
chi-
tectur
e of the N7000 series can help
eliminate the need to manage separate
NAS and SAN storage by pr
oviding
concurrent support for block and file
protocols via Ethernet and Fibre
Channel interfaces. With support for
Fibre Channel and SATA hard drives,
the N7000 product line also has the
flexibility to be used for primary and
secondary tiered storage.
Storage provisioning can take hours on
other storage systems but with N series
system’s thin provisioning capabilities
pr
ovided by FlexVol®, volumes can be
expanded and contracted automatically
without IT staff intervention or disruption
to applications.
series
Designed to support scalability, versatility,
flexibility, reliability and availability with
outstanding value
Another feature of the N series Data
ONTAP operating system, FlexClone®,
enables the nearly instant creation of
clones without requiring incremental
storage. FlexClone can dramatically
accelerate test and development cycles
for IT projects.
Efficient consolidation. The N7000
series is designed to consolidate
and serve data for a wide variety of
workloads, including mission-critical
business applications, technical appli-
cations, databases, e-mail, home direc-
tories, digital media, backup and
recovery, regulatory compliant data
retention and archival. IBM N series
systems support Windows®, UNIX®,
including AIX®, Solaris™ and HP-UX,
and Linux® host operating systems as
well as VMware for server virtualization.
IT organizations can be challenged with
poor r
esponse times during peak hours
of operations after consolidating stor-
age systems with dissimilar data work-
loads on to a single platform. To help
address this challenge, N series offers
FlexShare quality-of-service software,
which is intended to enable storage
administrators to set and dynamically
adjust workload priorities. FlexShare
can help ensure that important applica-
tions get fast response times.
Application availability. N7000 sys-
tems combine a variety of featur
es to
meet the need for continuous availabil-
ity. Complementing the high-availability
hardware design is the proven reliability
of the Data ONTAP operating system
and RAID-DP™ (N series implementa-
tion of RAID-6), which uniquely provides
double-level RAID data protection to
help ensure that data is not lost in the
event of multiple disk drive failures. In
addition, RAID-DP has negligible per-
formance impact. The N7000 also sup-
ports simple yet powerful synchronous,
semi-synchronous and asynchronous
mirroring that can be deployed
in one-to-one, one-to-many and many-
to-one mirroring configurations.
The N7000 can serve as the foundation
for a compr
ehensive data management
solution consisting of hardware, soft-
ware and services. With an appliance
architecture and built-in backup and
recovery software, an N7000 solution is
designed to address the entire spec-
trum of data availability challenges while
offering value in price/performance and
scalability.
Ultimately what matters is application-
level availability
, and this is where
N series systems excel. Snapshot™, a
standard feature of Data ONTAP, makes
it possible to instantly revert to a
pr
evious version of data upon failure or
user error. N series Snapshot copies
are unique in that they can be created
frequently during production, because
they use only a small amount of incre-
mental storage and have virtually no
impact on performance. Host-based
SnapManager® software integrates
Snapshot management with applica-
tions, designed to ensure consistent
backup images and application-level
recovery in minutes.
Performance. High performance and
massive storage capacity ar
e character-
istics that make the N7000 systems
ideal for large-scale applications and
storage consolidation. An N7000 sys-
tem is designed to complete jobs
quickly and handle a large number of
users via a powerful, high-bandwidth
architecture with scalability to
1,176 disk drives capable of delivering
up to 1.176 PB of raw storage capacity.
With large cache memory configura-
tions, expandable high-performance
I/O, 4 Gbps FC SAN support, 4 Gbps
disk drive support and support for
10 Gbps Ethernet, the N7000 delivers
exceptional enterprise-class system
performance.
N7000 near-line storage capabilities
The N7000 is well suited for near-line
storage configurations. An N7000 sys-
tem populated with Fibre Channel disk
drives that backs up to another
N series system populated with SATA
disk drives offers disk-to-disk backup
capabilities that are designed to help
you fill the price/performance gap
between fast but costly primary storage
and less-costly but slow archival (tape
and optical) storage. Utilizing SATA disk
drive technology, you could achieve
near-primary storage performance at
near-tape storage costs. A disk-based,
secondary storage device for enterprise
applications, N7000 disk-to-disk envi-
ronments are designed to complement
and dramatically improve existing tape
backup, archiving and data protection
schemes. They do so by inserting eco-
nomical and simple-to-use disk-based
storage between application storage
and tape libraries in a three-tier
storage architecture.
This arrangement is designed to pro-
vide economical storage and rapid
disk-based access to r
efer
ence data to
help addr
ess business and regulatory
requirements. It can serve as a key
component in an information lifecycle
management process by storing less-
critical data on a device whose cost
and performance stand between pri-
mary and tape storage.
Combined with SnapVault®, the N7000
disk-to-disk backup environments are
designed to serve as a r
obust and fully
integrated appliance that makes back-
ing up and restoring data rapid and reli-
able. Backing up directly to an N7000
system in a near-line storage configura-
tion and then to tape can help your
organization enhance data protection
management, improve primary storage
and tape library performance, and
reduce backup resource requirements
and costs. Two N series systems oper-
ating in a disk-to-disk backup scenario
are designed to be faster and to con-
sume less application-server CPU pro-
cessing power than direct backup to
tape. SnapVault software can be used
to help reduce network bandwidth con-
sumption by supporting incremental
block transfers to backup data across a
LAN or WAN. SnapMirror® software,
which replicates data at high speeds
over a LAN or a WAN, is designed to
provide high data availability and
fast recovery for mission-critical
applications.
IBM N series systems using
NearStore® software can use the
Advanced Single Instance Storage
(A-SIS) softwar
e feature for better stor-
age utilization. A-SIS software enables
N series systems to deduplicate stored
data at the block level in order to con-
serve physical disk space when making
disk-to-disk copies of primary data.
Traditionally when copies of volumes
are created, every duplicate data string
is also copied, resulting in an inefficient
use for secondary storage. A-SIS dedu-
plication helps eliminate this inefficiency.
The N7000 of
fers multiple capabilities in
the area of data retention. It can serve
as a high-performance device for stor-
ing mission-critical pr
oduction data and
as a data-retention system by running
SnapLock® software. The N7000 with
SnapLock software is designed to
deliver high-performance and high-
security data permanence to disk-
based nearline and primary N series
storage. An optional feature of the
proven Data ONTAP operating system,
SnapLock software supports the accu-
racy, integrity and security of data.
Support for data retention through non-
erasable,
capabilities
non-rewriteable security
It helps prevent the alteration of busi-
ness records and allows data to be
rapidly accessible online for long peri-
ods of time.
SnapLock offers capabilities to help you
addr
ess r
egulatory and best-practices
r
ecor
ds retention requirements by sup-
porting the creation of non-rewritable,
non-erasable volumes on IBM N series
systems. This functionality is designed
to prevent critical files from being
altered or deleted until a specified
r
etention date.
SnapLock is also designed to replicate
non-erasable, non-r
ewriteable data
secur
ely and automatically between
multiple N series systems using
SnapMirr
or softwar
e. The non-erasable,
non-rewriteable to non-erasable,
non-rewriteable replication of data at
remote sites can help your organization
address regulatory concer
ns or best
practices, resulting in a highly robust
compliant data protection solution.
Non-erasable, non-rewriteable data
can also be backed up to tape for an
additional level of data protection.
Software
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; FlexClone; MultiStore®; Clustered Failover; SnapMirror;
SyncMirror®; SnapRestore®; Single Mailbox Recovery; SnapVault; SnapMover®;
NearStore; Advanced Single Instance Storage; SnapValidator®; SnapLock; LockVault™;
MetroCluster
Manageability software
Application Suite
SnapManager for Microsoft® Exchange; SnapManager for Microsoft SQL Server™;
SnapManager for Microsoft Office SharePoint®; SnapManager for Oracle®; SnapManager
for SAP
Server Suite
SnapDrive®
Data Suite
Protection Manager; VFM® Virtual File Manager™—Enterprise Edition; Virtual File
Manager—Migration Edition
Storage Suite
File Storage Resource Manager; Operations Manager
Specifications
Machine type model
Controller configuration
Processors speed and type
(Note 1)
Number of processors
Random access memory
Standard integrated I/O ports
Fibre Channel ports/speed
Ethernet ports/speed
Storage scalability
Maximum raw capacity
Maximum number of disk
drives
Maximum volume size
Maximum number of
volumes/LUNs
Maximum number of
storage enclosures
Disk expansion units
supported
I/O scalability
PCI-Express (PCI-e)
expansion slots
PCI-x expansion slots
Maximum number FC ports
Maximum number of
Ethernet ports
2.6 GHz AMD™ Opteron™
EXN4000—4 Gbps Fibre Channel Disk Storage Expansion Unit
EXN1000—SATA Disk Storage Expansion
EXN2000—FC Storage Expansion Unit (Legacy)
N7700
2866-A11
Single
2
16 GB
8 (4 Gbps)
6 (1 GbE)
840 TB 840 TB
840 840
16 TB 16 TB
2048 2048
60 60
5
3
28
26
N7700
2866-A21
Dual (active/active)
2.6 GHz AMD Opteron
4
32 GB
16 (4 Gbps)
12 (1 GbE)
10
6
56
52
N7900
2867-A11
Single
2.6 GHz AMD dual core
Opteron
4
32 GB
8 (4 Gbps)
6 (1 GbE)
1176 TB
1176
16 TB
2048
84
5
3
28
26
N7900
2867-A21
Dual (active/active)
2.6 GHz AMD dual core
Opteron
8
64 GB
16 (4 Gbps)
12 (1 GbE)
1176 TB
1176
16 TB
2048
84
10
6
56
52
Specifications
Machine type model
Controller configuration
Processors speed and type
(Note 1)
Number of processors
Random access memory
Standard integrated I/O ports
Fibre Channel ports/speed
Ethernet ports/speed
Storage scalability
Maximum raw capacity
Maximum number of disk
drives
Maximum volume size
Maximum number of
volumes/LUNs
Maximum number of
storage enclosures
Disk expansion units
supported
I/O scalability
PCI-Express (PCI-e)
expansion slots
PCI-x expansion slots
Maximum number FC ports
Maximum number of
Ethernet ports
EXN4000—4 Gbps Fibre Channel Disk Storage Expansion Unit
EXN1000—SATA Disk Storage Expansion
EXN2000—FC Storage Expansion Unit (Legacy)
N7600
2866-A10
Single
2.6 GHz AMD Opteron
2
16 GB
8 (2 Gbps)
6 (1 GbE)
840 TB 840 TB
840 840
16 TB 16 TB
2048 2048
60 60
5
3
28
26
N7600
2866-A20
Dual (active/active)
2.6 GHz AMD Opteron
4
32 GB
16 (2 Gbps)
12 (1 GbE)
10
6
56
52
N7800
2867-A10
Single
2.6 GHz AMD Opteron
4
32 GB
8 (2 Gbps)
6 (1 GbE)
1008 TB
1008
16 TB
2048
72
5
3
28
26
N7800
2867-A20
Dual (active/active)
2.6 GHz AMD Opteron
8
64 GB
16 (2 Gbps)
12 (1 GbE)
1008 TB
1008
16 TB
2048
72
10
6
56
52
For more information
Contact your IBM representative or
IBM Business Partner or visit:
ibm.com/storage/network
For technical specifications, optional I/O
expandability and softwar
e features,
functions and benefits of the N7000
series, visit:
ibm.com
/storage/network/n7000/
appliance
For N7000 series interoperability visit:
ibm.com/systems/storage/nas/
interophome.html
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