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Scalable, high-performance storage for on demand
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IBM System Storage DS4700
Express Model
The challenge: Managing data to achieve a
low cost of ownership and high data
availability
Effective data management is essential
to the success of your enterprise if
business goals are to be met. You need
a storage solution that has a low cost
of ownership while providing high data
availability, strong storage management
capabilities, and powerful performance
features. You need to be able to easily
Highlights
and cost effectively scale storage
capacity and take advantage of
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End-to-end 4 Gbps capable
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Includes IBM System Storage™
emerging technologies as information
Fibre Channel interface tech-
DS4000™ Storage Manager to
demands change. Powerful, dynamic
nology to help optimize
help centrally manage the
backup and recovery capabilities can
performance
DS4000 Series
help you protect data and prevent
failure—not just respond and recover.
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Up to 1600 Mbps bandwidth for
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high throughput applications
Eight total host channels with
dual controllers for increased
connectivity
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Support for Fibre Channel hard
disk drives
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Support for up to 112 disk drive
modules with the attachment of
six DS4000 EXP810 Expansion
Units
The solution: IBM System Storage DS4700
increased connectivity. The DS4700
Express
Express supports eight 4 Gbps capable
In a continuing effort to provide storage
host channels that may be directly
solutions that are designed to provide
attached to host servers or connected
low total cost of ownership, high per-
to a Fibre Channel storage area net-
formance, robust functionality, and
work (SAN). Four Gbps capable drives
unparalleled ease of use, IBM offers the
and IT infrastructure are required to
IBM System Storage DS4700 Express.
achieve 4 Gbps capable throughput
As part of the DS4000 Series, the
speeds.
DS4700 Express offers highThere are two ways to measure the
Channel connections, up to 56TB of
performance of a SAN device:
physical storage capacity with
Megabytes per second (Mbps) and
112 500GB SATA disk drives, and pow-
input/output per second (IOPS). The
erful system management, data man-
DS4700 Express 4 Gbps SAN solution
agement and data protection features.
is designed to provide up to
The DS4700 Express is designed to
1600 Mbps throughput (assuming a
expand from workgroup to
4 Gbps capable system) with up to
enterprise-wide capability with the
125,000 IOPS. A 2 Gbps storage array
attachment of six DS4000 EXP810 disk
can require up to twice as many host
enclosures.
ports as a 4 Gbps array to deliver the
throughput of four 4 Gbps ports. The
Helping to achieve a low Total Cost of
DS4700 Express can help you free up
Ownership (TCO)
or eliminate the need for additional host
The IBM System Storage DS4700
ports in the SAN for each array.
performance 4 Gbps capable Fibre
Channel interface designed for dataintensive applications that demand
Designed for mid-sized
business, the IBM Express
Portfolio™ of offerings is just
right. Each and every offering
that’s part of the IBM Express
Portfolio is certified to ensure
three simple features:
1. Easy to install and deploy
performance 4 Gbps capable Fibre
Express Model supports a high-
Not too big. Not too small.
2. Easy to manage
3. Competitively priced
The IBM Express Portfolio of
offerings are scalable and have
the features and functionality
you’ll need to meet your technology needs, including hardware,
software, services and financing.
Since they are priced just right
for mid-sized businesses, you
know you’ll get more out of your
investment.
On the host side, if a server requires
to help you maintain data availability
speed if they are connected, but zoning
more than two 2 Gbps host bus
and security, enabling enterprise
allows you to implement a rolling
adapters (HBAs) to attain the required
inspired levels of reliability, availability,
upgrade strategy with minimal
performance (a server should have at
security and serviceability.
disruption.
number can be halved with a 4 Gbps
The DS4700 Express offers disaster
Helping to achieve Information Lifecycle
HBA. Fewer HBAs can help you lower
recovery and resiliency capabilities that
Management
the number of switch ports used and,
are designed to help you protect data
Information is the lifeblood of an
therefore, help reduce overall cost.
and prevent failure—not just respond
on demand business, and how that
least two HBAs for availability), that
and recover. These include point-in-
information is managed can become a
Helping to provide high data availability
time copying with IBM FlashCopy®,
key strategy of the IT organization.
The IBM System Storage DS4700
copying a volume with VolumeCopy,
Because of the 4 Gbps capable
Express Model offers the latest innova-
and remote mirroring with Enhanced
technology incorporated into the
tion from IBM in storage infrastructure
Remote Mirroring.
DS4700 Express, the IBM DS4000
Series can allow flexible access and a
performance and management. It is
designed to help you develop storage
One of the key advantages of the
broader range of scale and perform-
environments that can deliver high data
DS4700 Express 4 Gbps technology is
ance options, providing structure and
availability.
that it is backward compatible with
context to your enterprise information.
2 Gbps and even 1 Gbps technologies.
As a result, you have the freedom to
With a choice of multiple RAID levels
That means you can avoid replacing
build data management strategies that
and redundant, hot-swappable compo-
your entire SAN with 4 Gbps technol-
align with your evolving information
nents, the DS4700 Express is designed
ogy; you can add new technology
demands.
incrementally. 4 Gbps products will
slow down to the 2 Gbps or 1 Gbps
Helping to increase performance
Using its ability to auto-negotiate FC
The DS4700 Express is integrated into
The DS4700 Express is designed to
connection speeds allows you to inte-
DS4000 Series environments, running
manage some of your most
grate it into an existing 1 Gbps or
the same robust, yet intuitive, storage
compute-intensive workloads. Excelling
2 Gbps infrastructure.
management software as the other
DS4000 Series models. It is designed
at IOPS and Mbps, the DS4700
Express works well for both
The DS4700 Express storage system’s
to support high utilization of storage
transaction-oriented and bandwidth-
four 4 Gbps drive connections are
capacity and control over your rapidly
intensive applications. Additionally, the
designed to support up to 112 disk
growing storage environment.
DS4700 Express is a good choice for
drives with the attachment of six
environments with intense replication
DS4000 EXP810 disk enclosures. This
Serving a wide range of storage
requirements, because its extra “horse-
makes the DS4700 Express a good
consolidation and clustering applications
power” is designed to efficiently handle
choice for performance-oriented or
The IBM System Storage DS4700
the additional performance demands of
capacity-oriented storage requirements.
Express is designed to be an afford-
FlashCopy, Volume Copy and
Models 70 and 72 are designed to sup-
able, scalable storage server for stor-
Enhanced Remote Mirroring.
port over 33.6TB of Fibre Channel
age consolidation and clustering
physical storage capacity.
applications. Its modular architecture,
which includes Dynamic Capacity
The DS4700 Express Model 72 has
eight independent 4 Gbps Fibre
The DS4700 Express expands the
Addition and Dynamic Volume
Channel host ports for direct attach-
DS4000’s history of flexibility with
Expansion, can support on demand
ment to host (FC-AL) or for fabric
another configuration option—cache
business environments by helping to
attachment to storage area networks
size. The DS4700 Express is available
enable storage to grow as demands
(FC-SW). As one of the industry’s first
in two models: Model 70 is designed to
increase. Autonomic features such as
enterprise-class storage systems using
support up to 2GB of physical cache
online firmware upgrades and DS4000
4 Gbps Fibre Channel technology, the
memory (1GB per controller) and the
Service Alert also are designed to help
DS4700 Express is designed to enable
Model 72 can support up to 4GB of
enhance the system’s usability.
you to prepare for the future while fully
physical cache memory (2GB per
utilizing your present infrastructure.
controller).
The DS4700 Express features support
cooling modules, and Environmental
DS4000 EXP810 Storage Expansion
the consolidation of direct-attached
Service Module (ESM) interfaces. The
Unit to take advantage of using Fibre
storage into a centrally managed,
DS4000 EXP810 is available in a
Channel technology.
shared or storage area network (SAN)
19-inch rack-mount package.
Scalability throughout the DS4000 Series
environment. With built-in support for
eight Fibre Channel-attached servers,
Each ESM Customer Replacement Unit
Because the DS4700 Express is
the need for additional switches is
(CRU) supports 2 Gbps/4 Gbps Fibre
designed to be highly scalable—up to
reduced or eliminated, helping to make
Channel host connections. The DS4000
112 Fibre Channel or SATA disk
server clustering more cost-effective.
EXP810 ESM designs support a
drives—it can be upgraded from a
4 Gbps Fibre Channel loop. Both
workgroup SAN to an enterprise net-
The 4 Gbps capable
2 Gbps and 4 Gbps Fibre Channel disk
work storage system, thereby helping
IBM System Storage EXP810 Storage
drives are supported. A switch on the
provide flexibility to grow with your busi-
Expansion Unit offers a new 16-bay
front of the DS4000 EXP810 enclosure
ness. In addition, by using
disk enclosure for attachment to
selects the speed of the entire enclo-
IBM System Storage DS4000 Storage
selected DS4000 Mid-range Disk
sure—either 2 Gbps or 4 Gbps, but not
Manager software, multiple DS4700
Systems, with up to 4.8 terabytes (TB)
both at the same time.
Expresses can be combined to help
address additional performance and
physical capacity per expansion unit
using sixteen Fibre Channel 300GB disk
Leveraging DS4000 Series capabilities
capacity requirements—further enhanc-
drives, or up to 8TB physical capacity
The DS4700 Express is part of the
ing your scalability options.
per expansion unit using sixteen SATA
DS4000 Series, which uses common
500GB disk drives. The EXP810
storage management software and
Another scalability feature of the
Storage Expansion Unit is designed to
expansion enclosures. The DS4700
DS4700 Express is Dynamic Capacity
accommodate the new optional 2 Gbps
Express can also be used with the
Expansion (DCE), which is designed to
Fibre Channel Enhanced Disk Drive
provide the ability to add DS4000
Modules (E-DDM). The EXP810 con-
EXP810 enclosures to an existing
tains redundant (AC or DC) power and
DS4700 Express while avoiding the
need to stop operations. Adding these
designed to allow administrators to
DS4000 Storage Manager software,
enclosures can help you bring unused
quickly configure and monitor storage
administrators can partition the DS4700
storage online for a new host group or
from a Java™ technology-based Web
Express into as many as 64 virtual
an existing volume to provide additional
browser interface. It is also designed to
servers. This capability is designed to
capacity on demand.
allow them to customize and change
help your IT organization strategically
settings as well as configure new vol-
allocate storage capacity to achieve
The DS4700 Express is designed to
umes, define mappings, handle routine
high utilization of storage space and
allow upgrades to higher performing
maintenance, and dynamically add new
low hardware and storage management
DS4000 Series systems while keeping
enclosures and capacity to existing
costs. Instead of purchasing multiple
data intact, helping to avoid disruptions
volumes—without interrupting user
RAID controllers with their own dedi-
during upgrades. The DS4700 Express
access to data. Failover drivers, per-
cated disks and management, you can
also supports online controller firmware
formance tuning routines and cluster
attach multiple servers to one central
upgrades to help provide better per-
support are also standard features of
system—the DS4700 Express. The
formance and functionality. Events such
the DS4000 Storage Manager.
DS4700 Express is designed to provide
hardware failover with dual controllers
as upgrades to support the latest version of DS4000 Storage Manager or to
By providing these features and an intu-
add optional services such as DS4000
itive user interface, the DS4000 Storage
Service Alert or the new DS4000 Alert
Manager is designed to help reduce the
Other DS4700 Express features that
Manager can often be executed without
complexity of storage management and
can help enhance data management
stopping operations.
the amount of time spent managing
and protection include FlashCopy,
storage.
Dynamic Volume Expansion,
and common management.
VolumeCopy and Enhanced Remote
Centralizing administration through
DS4000 Storage Manager
Enhancing storage management
The System Storage DS4000 Storage
capabilities
Manager software included with the
The IBM System Storage DS4700
The FlashCopy feature is designed
DS4700 Express is designed to support
Express has several features designed
to take point-in-time copies of logical
centralized management of local and
to improve data management and stor-
volumes, which may be used for file
networked DS4000 Series systems.
age system performance. Using the
restoration, backups, application testing
The DS4000 Storage Manager is
Mirroring.
or data mining.
Dynamic Volume Expansion is designed
Additional tools to help manage storage
The optional DS4000 Service Alert and
to allow administrators to resize logical
The DS4700 Express is supported by a
the DS4000 Alert Manager services are
volumes while avoiding disruption to
variety of IBM Tivoli® software prod-
designed to enable the DS4700
users. This feature can work well for
ucts, including IBM Tivoli Storage
Express to quickly notify the
applications with rapidly growing data
Manager and IBM Tivoli Storage
IBM Support Center when the system
requirements, such as Lotus Notes®
Resource Manager, as well as other
detects a problem, helping to avoid the
and Microsoft® Exchange.
third-party hardware and software prod-
need for you to place a service call.
ucts. These applications can add to the
This feature is capable of forwarding
The VolumeCopy feature is designed to
capabilities of the DS4700 Express by
error alert messages (via e-mail) from
provide full replication of one logical vol-
enabling backup and storage reporting.
the DS4000 Storage Manager to
ume (source) to another (target) within
IBM to help expedite diagnosis and
the DS4700 Express. VolumeCopy fea-
The IBM System Storage Proven™ pro-
repair of failed hardware and software
tures support read-only access to the
gram is designed to identify and test
problems.
source volume during the copy process
many of these products for interoper-
and suspend writes to support point-
ability with the DS4700 Express and
Competitive financing options from
in-time integrity.
other IBM disk products. Products in
IBM Global Financing
this program have been tested to help
Financing is available through
Enhanced Remote Mirror consists of
avoid time-consuming installation and
IBM Global Services for a wide range of
Global Mirror with Asynchronous
support issues. For more information,
IBM products and services, including
Write-order Consistency. This is critical
please visit ibm.com/storage/proven.
the DS4700 Express, for the duration of
for mirroring multi-LUN applications,
the financing term. This financing offers
Global Copy with Asynchronous, and
Service and support
competitive rates, flexible terms, pre-
Metro Mirror with Synchronous.
The DS4700 Express has a three-year
dictable costs and a fast approval
hardware warranty with a 9x5 next
process for DS4700 Express and asso-
The DS4700 Express is designed to
business day response time that is
ciated software and services. For more
use a common pool of hot-spare disk
upgradeable to a 24x7 4-hour response
information, please visit
drives as a cost-effective way to help
time. Additional services for hardware
ibm.com/financing.
improve availability. IT administrators
installation, DS4000 Storage Manager
can determine the number of drives to
configuration, and advanced storage
allocate as spares.
management are available from
IBM Global Services. IBM Support Line
services can assist with using DS4000
Storage Manager, helping you to selfmaintain your DS4000 system.
For more information
Contact your IBM representative,
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