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IBM® System Storage™ Positioning the Total. Storage and System Storage Family New Entry Point Unified Family New Standard in Pricing and Packaging Foundation DS 4000 DS 6000 ESS 750 / 800 New Standard in Functionality, Performance, TCO EXP 400 DS 300/DS 400 Common management platform Common suite of copy services Virtualization Compelling price points DS 8000 Enterprise Storage Continuum IBM Total. Storage and System Storage Family innovations are designed to help you: § Simplify the underlying IT infrastructure of storage and its management to lower cost and complexity while increasing the ability to respond to changing needs. § Maintain business continuity, security and data durability. Industry leading service and support 2 § Efficiently manage information throughout its lifecycle, relative to its business value. DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4000 Series § Fully-featured series of solutions designed to address a wide range of storage needs From entry-level to enterprise From performance-oriented to capacity-oriented applications From direct-attach to SAN-attach § DS 4000 series benefits Common management interface and functionality across all products and platforms Performance optimized for open systems FC and SATA offerings that provide flexible, cost-effective tiered storage solutions Industry unique dynamic capabilities and intuitive GUI simplify storage administration High availability features designed to protect data and support data accessibility 3 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4000 Series Positioning This table represents general positioning and not technical capabilities DS 4800 DS 4500 DS 4700 DS 4300 DS 4200 DS 4100 Entry-level 4 Midrange DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential High-end © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4200 Express Overview § Fully-featured disk system targeted for entry-level and secondary storage requirements Designed to deliver high-end functionality at an attractive cost-per-gigabyte § Four auto-negotiating 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces Support for new and existing infrastructures helps provide backward and forward investment protection § Affordable entry point offers dual-active controllers and up to 16 SATA drives (8 TB) in 3 U enclosure Supports online expansion up to 112 SATA drives § Managed by powerful / intuitive DS 4000 Storage Manager software Fully-integrated Flash. Copy, Volume. Copy, Enhanced Remote Mirroring § Designed to meet Ro. HS directive http: //www. ibm. com/ibm/environment/products/rohs. shtml 5 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ A Smooth Handoff From DS 4100 To DS 4200 Feature enhancements to prior generation; (DS 4100) § § § § Expanded host ports (four vs. two) Expanded drive ports (four vs. two) Denser cache footprint of 2 GB (vs. 512 MB) End-to-end 4 Gbps capable Switched loop architecture 16 -slot switched 4 Gbps drive enclosures Higher performance over DS 4100 Higher capacity with 500 GB SATA disk drives Enhanced Value Disk Drive Module (EV-DDM) § Supports attachment of DS 4000 EXP 420 storage expansion units 6 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4200 Target Markets § SMB entry-level, Intel-server environments Affordable entry point that delivers 4 Gbps connectivity, ultra-reliable architecture and high-end functionality at an attractive cost-per-gigabyte § Secondary storage requirements Fully-featured software combined with high-capacity, low-cost SATA drives maximizes cost per GB without sacrificing functionality Designed for: − Disk-to-disk backup / restore • Shorter backup time / higher application availability • Spinning archive enables faster restores • Improved backup / restore reliability − Retention managed data / fixed content • Medical imaging, object folders, historical reports − Disaster recovery • Restoration source of archived information • Hot site storage of “like” data from primary site − Oil and gas / seismic processing 7 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ Where Does SATA Fit? § Entry-level storage is an emerging opportunity for SATA due to its common requirements with secondary storage Typical applications Requirement 8 OLTP, databases, ERP, email Primary Retention managed data, fixed content, D 2 D backup 1 st external RAID File / print server Secondary Entry-level IOPS performance Highest Minimal MB/s performance Highest High Minimal Time to data Immediate ~ Immediate Media reliability Highest Good Uptime 24/7 < 24/7 OK Price Higher is OK Low cost-per GB Lowest Primary media FC disk SATA disk DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ Understanding SATA Performance Throughput § Sequential, large-block transfers Video servers, rich media, seismic processing, HPC § Key drive-based performance enablers: Data transfer rate, maximum I/O transfer size, command queuing IOPS § Random, small-block transfers OLTP, databases, Exchange Majority of enterprise applications § Key drive-based performance enablers: Seek time, latency, rotational velocity, command queuing, number of drives 9 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ Application Access Patterns Best served by FC drives Read intensive Write intensive I/O intensive OLTP ● ● Data warehouse ● ● ● System (SCP) ● ● ● File serving ● ● Medical imaging Throughput intensive Random access ● ● ● Sequential access ● Web / Internet ● ● Multimedia / video ● ● ● Document imaging CAD/CAM Backup / recovery ● ● ● Option for SATA drives 10 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4000 Performance § SATA is a good fit for most applications requiring throughput Exceptional performance value for entry-level / secondary storage Results in MB/s Drive Type DS 4800 Mod. 88, 84, 82 DS 4800 Mod. 80 DS 4500 DS 4700 Mod. 72, 72 DS 4300 DS 4200 DS 4100 Sustained throughput – cache reads --- 1, 724 1, 326 800 1, 550 800 FC 1, 680 1, 275 800 990 400 --- SATA 1, 625 1, 275 800 990 395 990 493 FC 1, 325 975 625 850 315 --- SATA 1, 200 920 635 690 310 690 425 FC 72 4 Gb FC 36 2 Gb FC 36 4 Gb FC 36 2 Gb FC --- SATA 64 SATA II 72 SATA I 36 SATA II 28 SATA I Sustained throughput – disk read Sustained throughput – disk write (CMD) Drives used in testing Note: Results as of 6 -26 -2006. Source of information from Engenio and not confirmed by IBM. Performance results achieved under ideal circumstances in a benchmark test environment. Actual customer results will vary based on configuration and infrastructure components. The number of drives used for MB/s performance does not reflect an optimized test config. The number of drives required could be lower/higher. 11 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4000 Performance § SATA is not a good fit for applications requiring adequate IOPS Results in IOPS Drive Type DS 4800 Mod. 88, 84, 82 DS 4800 Mod. 80 DS 4500 DS 4700 Mod. 72, 72 DS 4300 DS 4200 DS 4100 Sustained throughput – cache reads --- 575, 000 375, 000 148, 000 121, 500 77, 000 121, 500 76, 000 FC 86, 000 62, 000 53, 200 44, 500 25, 000 --- SATA 22, 000 16, 000 18, 900 11, 200 9, 800 11, 200 10, 000 FC 22, 000 16, 000 10, 900 9, 000 5, 200 --- SATA 3, 500 2, 500 4, 000 1, 800 2, 000 FC 224 4 Gb FC 140 2 Gb FC 112 4 Gb FC 64 2 Gb FC --- SATA 224 SATA II 224 SATA I 112 SATA II 112 SATA I Sustained throughput – disk read Sustained throughput – disk write (CMD) Drives used in testing Note: Results as of 6 -26 -2006. Source of information from Engenio and not confirmed by IBM. Performance results achieved under ideal circumstances in a benchmark test environment. Actual customer results will vary based on configuration and infrastructure components. Drives were “short-stroked” to optimized for IOPs performance. Real-life may take more drives to achieve the numbers listed. . 12 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4200 Controller Module Specifications § Dual-active 4 Gbps RAID controllers 2 GB (1 GB per controller) of battery-backed cache § Four 4 Gbps FC interfaces for host/SAN connectivity Auto-negotiate 4, 2 and 1 Gbps link speeds § Four 4 Gbps FC expansion drive loops Max of 112 SATA drives with 6 EXP 420 expansion units − 1 to 3 trays requires an expansion license − 4 to 6 trays requires and expansion license § Two Ethernet connections Power/cooling Controllers One for customer, one for support/service personnel § Up to 16 SATA II drives 500 GB 7. 2 K RPM (EV-DDM) § Redundant, hot-swappable CRUs § 3 year 9 x 5 next business day warranty Upgradeable to 24 x 7 four hour response 13 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential SATA II drives © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ EXP 420 Specification Overview § Expansion Unit Up to 16 SATA II drives − 500 GB 7. 2 K RPM (EV-DDM) 4 Gbps ESMs − High-speed, low-latency interconnect from controllers to drives Dual-active drive channels − Redundant access to every drive Power/cooling ESMs Switched architecture − Drive isolation, better diagnostics − Higher performance, lower latency SATA Interface Card − Provide single-ported SATA drives with dual-active 4 Gbps FC ports − DDM-level FC emulation enables SATA drives to plug into 4 Gbps FC mid-plane SATA II drives Hot-swappable CRUs Redundant pathing 14 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4000 Storage Manager Software For DS 4200 § Requires version 9. 16 (firmware 6. 16) § Same functionality as rest of DS 4000 family Centralized administration Online configuration, reconfiguration, expansion, tuning and maintenance § 2 partitions standard Upgrade to 4, 8, 16, 64 § Optional Flash. Copy®, Volume Copy, Enhanced Remote Mirroring 15 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4200 Controller Module Drive interfaces Power/cooling 16 Ethernet Serial Host interfaces Battery Controller DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ EXP 420 Expansion Unit Future use Serial Power/cooling 17 Tray ID Expansion ESM DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4200 Host-Side Connectivity § Four 4 Gbps FC ports for host or SAN connections Each host port is capable of delivering up to 400 MB/s § Auto-negotiate to 1, 2, and 4 Gbps speeds Seamless addition to current infrastructure that’s “ 4 Gbps ready” Direct host connections Fabric SAN connections I/O paths to each controller should be established for full redundancy and failover protection 18 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4200 Drive-Side Connectivity § Four 4 Gbps drive loops support 112 drives Each drive port is capable of delivering up to 400 MB/s When attaching enclosures, drive loops are configured as redundant pairs utilizing one port from each controller and “top-down / bottom-up” cabling. This helps ensure data access in the event of a path/loop or controller failure. Loop pair 1 Loop pair 2 DS 4200 with EXP 420 Single drive loop pair shown 19 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4200 Cabling (Full Configuration) 20 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4200 Controller Architecture § Uses 667 MHz Xscale processor with embedded XOR engine § 1 GB of cache memory per controller 128 MB for processor memory. 896 MB for dedicated data cache § Fully switched drive-side architecture 21 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4000 Specifications Comparison Dual-controller system (unless noted) DS 4800 DS 4500 DS 4700 Model 72 / 70 DS 4300 Turbo / Base DS 4200 DS 4100 Host channels 8 4 8/4 4 Native host interface link speed 4 Gbps 2 Gbps Total host channel maximum bandwidth 3, 200 MB/s 800 MB/s 3, 200 / 1, 600 MB/s 800 MB/s Redundant drive channels Eight 4 Gbps Four 2 Gbps Four 4 Gbps Two 2 Gbps Total drive channel maximum bandwidth 3, 200 MB/s 800 MB/s 1, 600 MB/s 400 MB/s Max drives 224 112 / 56 FC 112 SATA 112 Drives supported FC and SATA* FC and SATA Processor Intel Xeon 2. 4 GHz Intel Pentium III 850 MHz Intel x. Scale 667 MHz Intel x. Scale 600 MHz Processor memory (single controller) 512 MB 128 MB 128 MB XOR engine Dedicated Integrated Dedicated data cache per dual-controller system 4, 8, or 16 GB 2 GB 4 GB / 2 GB / 512 MB 2 GB 512 MB (256 MB for memory) * Future release 22 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4000 Series Positioning High-end Midrange DS 4800 § Highest performance of DS 4000 series for business-critical applications § Data replication is a key piece of the storage strategy DS 4500 § High performance for price-conscious environments § Midrange data replication and remote replication sites DS 4700 § Exceptional performance value for medium-scale configurations § Midrange data replication and remote replication sites DS 4300 Turbo § Homogeneous workgroup/departmental storage consolidation § Windows®, Linux™, Net. Ware environments DS 4300 Single / Dual Entry-level 23 § Low cost, entry-level 2 Gbps external RAID system based on FC disk for SMB § Designed to offer highly available, reliable storage for SMB applications DS 4200 § Low-cost, entry-level 4 Gbps external RAID storage based on SATA disk for SMB § Highly reliable storage with robust storage management functionality DS 4100 Single / Dual § Low-cost, entry-level 2 Gbps external RAID storage based on SATA disk for SMB § Highly reliable storage with robust storage management functionality DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4200 Express Model Feature Code Part Number Description 1814 -7 VA (AAS) 18147 VH (HVEC) DS 4200 Express Model 7 V Country specific § DS 4200 is an “Express Seller” product only § DS 4200 will be available in SAP only for AG and EMEA and AAS only for AP § 16 disk drives inside controller 1 – 3 trays requires an expansion license 4 – 6 trays requires and expansion license § HVEC ordering ships with 2 partitions Optional upgrades to 4, 8, 16 or 64 24 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4200 Express Feature Codes | Part Numbers Description Feature Code (AAS) Part Number (HVEC) IBM System Storage DS 4200 Express Model 7 V - Controller 1814 -7 VA 18147 VH VMware ESX Host Kit 7603 39 M 6046 HBA: FC 4 Gbps - PCI-X Single Port 2105 39 M 5894 AIX Host Kit 7611 39 M 6048 HBA: FC 4 Gbps - PCI-X Dual Port 2106 39 M 5895 SUN Solaris Host Kit 7612 41 Y 5163 DS 4200 500 GB SATA EV-DDM 4612 42 D 0389 HPUX Host Kit 7613 41 Y 0686 1 M Fiber Optic Cable LC-LC 5601 39 M 5696 Linux on Power Host Kit 7614 42 D 3252 5 M Fiber Optic Cable LC-LC 5605 39 M 5697 2 Storage Partitions - Plant 8750 N/A 25 M Fiber Optic Cable LC-LC 5625 39 M 5698 4 Storage Partitions - Plant 8751 N/A Flash. Copy Activation 7321 41 Y 0743 8 Storage Partitions - Plant 8752 N/A Volume Copy Activation 7323 41 Y 0746 16 Storage Partitions - Plant 8753 N/A Flas. Copy/ Volume Copy Activation 7324 41 Y 0738 64 Storage Partitions - Plant 8754 N/A Enhanced Remote Mirror Activation 7325 41 Y 0739 2 – 4 Storage Partitions – Field upgrade 8760 42 D 3254 EXP 420 Attachment (1 -3 EXP Units) 7380 39 M 5954 2 – 8 Storage Partitions – Field upgrade 8761 42 D 3257 EXP 420 Attachment (1 -3 EXP Units) 7381 39 M 5957 4 – 8 Storage Partitions – Field upgrade 8762 42 D 3260 Windows Host Kit 7600 N/A - Included in HVEC models 4 – 16 Storage Partitions – Field upgrade 8763 42 D 3263 8 – 16 Storage Partitions – Field upgrade 8764 42 D 3266 8 – 64 Storage Partitions – Field upgrade 8765 42 D 3272 Linux/Intel Host Kit (Red. Hat ES, SUSE ELS) 7601 39 M 6009 Novell Netware Host Kit 7602 39 M 6041 Note: This information is deemed accurate but subject to change without notice 25 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
IBM® System Storage™ DS 4200 – Make Sure You Know § DS 4200 is SATA only and can only expand with EXP 420 drive enclosure You cannot attach an EXP 810 to a DS 4200 § EXP 420 will only operate behind a DS 4200 controller You cannot attach a EXP 420 to any other DS 4000 series product § Drives from EXP 420 will not work in any other DS 4000 series product § DS 4200 is not upgradeable to any other type of DS 4000 series product § DS 4200 is similar to a DS 4700 with regard to architecture and premium features – but no Intermix capability § DS 4200 was designed to be a low-cost entry level SMB system Replacing DS 4100 § DS 4200 will have Storage Manager management software and will be seen as a DS 4200 by other DS 4000 series products DS 4200 can be a target device for a DS 4800 or DS 4700 for DR/BC or secondary storage applications 26 DS 4200 Express | Sales and Marketing Training | IBM Confidential © 2006 IBM Corporation
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