IBM System Storage DS5300

• Cache memory to 32Gb (16 on the controller)
• Disks to 448 FC, SATA
• Interface 16 FC-4Gb

The newest storage system of the seventh generation of IBM System Storage DS5000 of a series will provide the highest performance, reliability, versatile scalability and the increased level of protection of investments. IBM System Storage DS5000 of a series equally well will be suitable for support of the transactional applications, for applications requiring high capacity and for multimedia applications. Providing the permanent high level of performance and reliability the IBM System Storage DS5000 system of a series will be able to provide the continuity of your business both will reliably protect your investments and will provide permanent data availability.

Specific Features:

• The architecture of the seventh generation provides to 700,000 input-output operations per second (IOPs) and 6400 Mbps – the balanced performance perfectly suitable for virtualization and consolidation
• Scaling option up to 448 hard drives when using the module EXP5000 and to the 960th terabyte (TB) when using the module of high density of EXP5060
• Support of simultaneous use of disks of different type – the Fibre Channel (FC), FDE, Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) and solid-state disks (SSD) – and a host interfaces – FC and SCSI over IP (iSCSI) – for protection of investments and creation of the cost-efficient multilevel environment of data storage
• The managing software provides centralized operation by all systems of the DS series and also provides the most effective use of resources and expense reduction
• Support of high availability by means of principal components with a possibility of "hot" replacement and also updating of the built-in software without breaks in work.

The storage system of IBM System Storage DS5000 allows to meet the current and future requirements of open systems and sets the new standard of duration of lifecycle. The architecture of the seventh generation of DS5000 created on the basis of many decades of developments provides the leading performance, true reliability, multilateral scalability and unprecedented protection of capital investments.

DS5000 system equally well is suitable for support of transactional applications, such as databases and online transaction processing (OLTP), the applications exacting to capacity, such as high-performance computing (HPC), for processing of multimedia materials and accomplishment of parallel workloads at consolidation and virtualization. Thanks to the permanent performance and the highest reliability and scalability, the storage system of DS5000 supports the most tough agreements on the service level (SLA) for the majority of widespread operating systems, including Microsoft® Windows®, UNIX® and Linux®. In case of change of requirements it is possible to add or replace a host interfaces, to increase capacity, to increase volume a cache memory and to quickly upgrade a system according to growth rates of the company.

Such multilateral scalability allows to provide DS5000 system lifecycle considerably exceeding normal 3-4 years, protects capital investments in a storage system thanks to a delay (or even to need elimination) data transfer in new and allows to prolong depreciation of acquisition value for a progressive tense. The big duration of a system lifecycle of DS5000 allows to use its opportunities much longer in comparison with other systems. Enciphering at the level of disks in DS5000 system provides economic data protection without decline in production. DS5000 system also provides several options of replication, enciphering at the level of disks and backup of a constant a cache memory for fixing and preserving of all data of a cache in case of failure of power supply.

Base characteristics:

• The rational, compact body 4U high for installation in a 19-inch rack
• Possibility of investment in process of growth for expansion without work interruption
• Easy-to-customize and use control interface of DS3000, DS4000 and DS5000 systems
• Upgradeability of the equipment and the built-in software without interruption of work for support of high availability
• Connectivity to switches, managing switches and IBM Storage Area Network (SAN) routers
• Support of the most widespread operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux

Short description of hardware:

• Corporate technology of controllers of the next generation
• The payments replaced on site a host interface (HIC) - on two on each controller
• The current version supports payments of HIC FC 4 and 8 of Gbps (all the 16th host ports)
• 16 FC interfaces of 4 Gbps for connection of hard drives support up to 448 hard drives FC/SATA (in DS5300 – 256 disks in DS5100)
• Scaling option up to 32 GB selected a cache memory (16 GB on the controller)
• Available options: 4, 8 and 16 (further) GB a cache memory on the controller
• Allocated channels of mirroring cache memory
• Permanent backup a cache memory on a case of failure of power supply
• Possibility of upgrade on site installations
• Support of RAID 6, 5, 3, 10, 1, 0
• Two performance levels (basic: DS5100 and high: DS5300) with a possibility of upgrade of performance levels on site installations