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Disk Storage Systems/System Storage Software
IBM System Storage DR550 and DR550 Express
Model
Highlights
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Operational Efficiency—Designed to help businesses meet the growing challenge of archiving and securing
retention managed data and other critical information assets over extended periods of time
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Integrated offering—Designed as a preconfigured, integrated offering to help store,retrieve, manage,share
and secure regulated and non-regulated data in non-erasable and non-rewritable format
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Automation—Designed to offer automatic provisioning, migration,expiration and archiving capabilities
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Scalability—Supports non-disruptive enterprise scalability from 1.1TB up to 112TB physical capacity and
supports petabytes of storage with attached tape and optical
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Policy-based—Offers a comprehensive suite of software tools for policy- and event-based data management
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High Availability—Option designed to avoid single points of failure
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Native support for LTO Gen 3 WORM Tape and 3996 optical libraries
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Flexibility—Application program interface (API) client program makes it easy to integrate ISV Content
Management applications
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Disaster Recovery support—Synchronous or Asynchronous Replication—Supports Metro or Global Mirroring
allowing two real-time synchronous or asynchronous copies of the data to be maintained on DR550s in sepa-
rate locations. DR550 also protects customer data by allowing businesses to use tape libraries with advanced
LTO Gen 3 tape drives with WORM capabilities to provide efficient and cost effective replication of data
objects.
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Operating in conjunction with an enterprise content-management product like IBM CommonStore for SAP
helps enable centralized management through a single interface to support storage allocation and address
application demands.
Scalability DR550:Single engine:8TB and 16TB,Dual engine:8,16,32,56,112TB of physical storage, up to petabytes
with attached tape and optical storage.
DR550 Express 1.1,5.1 and 9.1TB configurations.
Nodes Single-or dual-server configurations Dual-server configuration offers failover protection
Processors DR550: 2-way 1.9 GHz POWER5+™ Processor Card,36 MB L3 Cache
DR550 Express:1-way 1.65 GHz POWER5+ Processor Card,no L3 Cache
Network protocol support IBM System Storage Archive Manager (SSAM) application programming interface (API) v5.3
Operating system IBM AIX,Version 5.3
Performance Performance testing results:www-03.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/dr/performance.html
PCI slots available N/A
Network connectivity 2 port Gigabit Copper or Fibre Ethernet (upgrades available)
ECC SDRAM
memory (max)
1 GB per node
Data protection Mirrored OS,RAID-5 for user data
Data Encryption for enhanced security for disk and tape via 128-bit AES or 56-bit DES encryption technology.
Encryption keys can be managed by the application or by the DR550
Redundancy/high
availability
IBM HACMP 5.3 (Dual-server configuration), redundant DS4100 controllers,RDAC driver to provide path failover,
RAID
Backup External tape (recommended IBM 3592 WORM tape)
RAID levels RAID-5
Systems management SMIT, DS4000 Storage Manager GUI,SNMP
Storage management IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client and storage agent
* Please visit ibm.com/storage/nas for additional N3700 performance information.
** Please visit ibm.com/storage/dr550 for current DR550 performance results.
† For more information on third-party product support, please refer to “IBM NAS Interoperability”at ibm.com/storage/nas.
SAN Virtualization
Create a tiered storage environment and increase the flexibility within your storage infrastructure by introducing solutions based on
IBMTotalStorage virtualization software.
Product Function and Value Highlights
IBM System Stora
ge SAN Volume
Controller (SVC)
Based on virtualization technology,the
IBM System Storage SAN Volume
Controller is designed to manage
attached disk storage as a single
resource from a single point to simplify
administration. It is designed to allow a
tiered storage environment to be
deployed more easily than relying on
physical disk arrays alone.
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Manage storage volumes from a central point: The SVC is designed to
enhance the flexibility of your storage environment. It can combine the stor-
age capacity from multiple disk arrays from different suppliers into a single
pool of storage that can be managed from a central point. In this way,fewer
skills are required and storage administrators can become more productive.
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Create a tiered storage environment: Using virtualization technology,the
SVC enables customers to match the cost of the storage to the value of their
data. For example,mission-critical data can be stored on high-performance,
highly available Fibre-Channel disks while non-mission-critical data can be
stored on serial-ATA disks.Data can easily be moved from one tier to
another without application disruption.
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Virtually eliminate downtime related to storage:The SVC enables data
migrations, storage software upgrades and changes to the physical storage
without impacting host applications.
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Improve storage resource utilization: By combining the storage capacity
from multiple disk arrays into a single pool,SVC uses existing storage
capacity more efficiently,which can defer additional storage purchases to
save costs.
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A single,cost-effective set of advanced copy services: The SVC can
apply copy services across all the managed storage, regardless of the disk
array supplier.This capability helps simplify the environment,reduce the
costs of implementing disaster recovery solutions, increases flexibility in
using storage and increases personnel
productivity.
IBM TotalStorage Expert Family
Adds value to the storage subsystem solution by providing information for better management.
Product Function and Value
IBM TotalStorage ETL Expert Provides a high-performance monitoring tool to help simplify the management of IBM tape subsystems that
include the IBMTotalStorage Enterprise Tape Library,Virtual Tape Server and Peer-to-Peer Virtual Tape Server
IBM TotalStorage XRC
Performance Monitor
Provides the ability to monitor and evaluate the performance of a running XRC configuration; the monitor func-
tion provides information at the real-time, historic and summary levels
DFSMS Family
Provides automated and central storage management in the z/OS environment
Product Function and Value
DFSMSdfp™ Provides data access, program and device management functions that furnish effective management of active
data
DFSMSdss™ Provides data movement, copy, backup and space management functions
DFSMShsm™ Provides backup,recovery,migration and space management functions that furnish effective management of
inactive data
DFSMSrmm™ Provides a policy-driven solution for the management of removable media, such as tape cartridges and reels
DFSORT™ Provides a solution for faster and easier data sorting, reporting and analysis
DFSMStvs Enables batch jobs and IBM CICS® (Customer Information Control Systems) online transactions to update
shared VSAM data sets concurrently