IBM System Storage DS5000 Series

The DS5000 series is equally adept at supporting transactional applications such as databases and OLTP, throughput-intensive applications such as HPC and rich media, and concurrent workloads for consolidation and virtualisation. With its relentless performance and superior reliability and availability, the DS5000 series storage system can support the most demanding service level agreements (SLAs). And when requirements change, the DS5000 series can add or replace host interfaces, grow capacity, add cache and be reconfigured on the fly—ensuring that it will keep pace with your growing company.

• Next-generation enterprise controller technology
• Field-replaceable host interface cards (HIC)—two per controller
  • Initial release supports 4 Gb/s FC HICs (16 total host ports)
• Sixteen 4 Gb/s FC drive interfaces support up to 256 FC/SATA drives
  • Initial release supports up to 256 drives
• Designed for up to 32 GB of dedicated data cache (16 GB per controller)
  • Initial release supports 4 or 8 GB of cache per controller
  • Dedicated cache mirroring channels
  • Persistent cache backup in the event of a power outage
  • Field-upgradeable
• Support for RAID 6, 5, 3, 10, 1, 0
• Two performance levels (base: DS5100 and high: DS5300) with ability to field-upgrade performance levels.

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