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IBM System Storage DR550 and DR550 Express
Model
An award-winning information archiving and retention solution designed to:
Highlights
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store, retrieve, manage, share and secure all types of data (e-mail, database, documents, images, files, etc.)
provide non-erasable, non-rewritable archival storage. Prevents deletion or alteration of data stored on the
system.
support multiple storage tiers for long term archiving (disk, tape and optical)
provide the facilities to migrate archive data from aging disk or tape subsystems to new ones
offer automatic provisioning, migration, expiration and archiving capabilities
offer scalability up to 112 TB raw physical capacity and supports petabytes of storage with attached tape and
optical
offer chronological and event-based data retention
offer high availability option to avoid single points of failure
provide security and protection through data encryption and data shredding options
support and integrate with broad set of IBM and non-IBM content management applications
provide file archiving through the new IBM System Storage DR550 File System Gateway
protect customer data against disasters through Synchronous or Asynchronous Replication
offer low TCO through the use of multiple storage devices for long period archiving
Carefree Services—for onsite software/firmware upgrades and three year warranty repair and maintenance
(24x7, four hour response)
Scalability DR550: Single engine: 8 TB and 16 TB, Dual engine: 8, 16, 32, 56, 112 TB of raw physical storage, up to
petabytes with attached tape and optical stora
ge.
DR550 Express 1.1, 5.1 and 9.1 TB configurations.
Nodes Single-or dual-server configurations Dual-ser
ver configuration offers failover protection
Processors DR550: 2-way 2.1 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) v5.4
Operating system IBM AIX, Version 5.3
Performance Performance testing results: ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/dr/performance.html
PCI slots available N/A
Network connectivity 2 port Gigabit Copper or F
ibre Ethernet (upgrades available)
ECC SDRAM
memory (max)
1 GB per node
Data protection Mirrored OS, RAID
-5, RAID-10 (opt.) for user da
ta
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. Maintains data as non-erasable and non-
rewritable until deletion is permitted by retention policy.
Redundancy/high
availability
IBM HACMP 5.3 (Dual-server configura
tion), redundant DS4700 controllers, RDAC driver to provide path failover,
RAID
Backup External tape (recommended IBM 3592 WORM tape)
RAID levels RAID-5, RAID-10 (opt.)
Systems management SMIT,
DS4000 Storage Manager GUI, SNMP
Storage management IBM Tivoli Storage Manager client and storage agent
Disk Storage Virtualization
Create a tiered storage environment and help increase the flexibility and efficiency of your storage infrastructure by introducing solutions based on
IBM System Storage virtualization software.
Product Function and Value Highlights
IBM System Stora Based on virtualization technology, the
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Manage storage volumes from a central point: SVC is designed to
ge SAN Volume
IBM System Storage SAN Volume
enhance the flexibility of your storage environment. It can combine the stor-
Controller (SVC)
Controller is designed to increase the
age capacity from multiple disk systems from different suppliers into a sin-
efficiency and flexibility of your storage
gle pool of storage that can be managed from a central point. In this way,
infrastructure by pooling storage and
fewer skills are required and storage administrators can become more pro-
centralizing management, and enabling
ductive.
changes to the physical storage while
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Virtually eliminate downtime related to storage: SVC enables data
avoiding disruption to
migrations, maintenance and upgrades to the SVC system itself, and
applications.
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 systems 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: SVC can apply
copy services across all the managed storage, regardless of the disk system
supplier. This capability helps simplify the environment, reduce the costs of
implementing disaster recovery solutions, increases flexibility in using stor-
age and increases personnel productivity.
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Create a tiered storage environment: Using virtualization technology, 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.
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 IBM T
otalStorage Enterprise Tape Library, Virtual Tape Server and Peer-to-Peer Virtual Tape Server
IBM TotalStorage XRC Provides the ability to monitor and evaluate the performance of a running XRC configuration; the monitor func-
Performance Monitor
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 da
ta access,
program and device management functions that furnish effective management of active
da
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DFSMSdss™ Provides data movement, copy, backup and space management functions
DFSMShsm™ Provides backup,
recovery, migration and space mana
gement 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 da
ta sorting, reporting and analysis
DFSMStvs Enables batch jobs and IBM CICS® (Customer Information Control Systems) online transactions to update
shared VSAM da
ta sets concurrently
* 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.
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