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IBM System Storage DS4800

Scalable, high-performance storage for on demand

computing environments

Highlights

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4 Gbps Fibre Channel interface

technology

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Up to 1600 MBps bandwidth for

high throughput applications

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Fibre Channel and SATA hard

disk drives supported

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Includes IBM TotalStorage®

DS4000™ Storage Manager to

help centrally manage the

DS4000 series

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Eight host channels for

increased connectivity

4GB Fibre Channel interface technology

The IBM System Storage™ DS4800

disk storage system supports a high-

performance 4 Gbps Fibre Channel

interface for increased host connectivity

to deliver necessary bandwidth for

high-throughput applications. It is

designed for data-intensive applications

that demand increased connectivity

provided by eight 4 Gbps host chan-

nels designed to provide up to

1600 MBps of sustained bandwidth for

high-throughput applications through

the eight channels directly attached to

the host servers or connected to a

Fibre Channel storage area network

(SAN).

Designed to help lower your Total Cost of

Ownership (TCO)

The IBM System Storage DS4800 Disk

Storage System offers customers a

4 Gbps SAN solution to take advantage

of the performance offered by 4 Gbps

technology. There are two ways to

Summary of content (8 pages)

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Scalable, high-performance storage for on demand computing environments IBM System Storage DS4800 4GB Fibre Channel interface technology The IBM System Storage™ DS4800 disk storage system supports a highperformance 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interface for increased host connectivity to deliver necessary bandwidth for high-throughput applications.
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measure performance of a SAN device: hot-swappable components—the Information lifecycle management (ILM) megabytes per second (MBps) and DS4800 Disk Storage System can help Information is the lifeblood of an input/output per second (IOPS). The you maintain data availability and secu- on demand business. With the IBM DS4800 4 Gbps SAN product has rity, enabling enterprise-inspired levels IBM DS4800 offering 4 Gbps technol- very impressive performance numbers.
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some of the most compute-intensive allowing it to integrate into an existing will have 4GB of physical cache mem- workloads and provide robust function- 1 Gbps or 2 Gbps infrastructure, ory (2GB per controller), Model 82 that ality while maintaining availability.
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The DS4800 is designed to help con- disk drive modules. Note: When config- Storage Manager software, multiple solidate direct-attached storage into a ured with 2 Gbps drives, the 4 Gbps DS4800s can be combined to help centrally managed, shared or storage disk drive module will run at 2 Gbps address additional performance and area network (SAN) environment. speed. capacity requirements—further With built-in support for eight Fibre enhancing your scalability options.
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DS4000 Intermix feature for attaching DS4000 Storage Manager allows many as 64 virtual servers. This capa- Fibre Channel and Serial ATA Disk Storage administrators to quickly configure bility allows IT organizations to strategi- Expansion units and monitor storage from a Java™ cally allocate storage capacity, helping The IBM System Storage DS4800 mid- technology-based GUI.
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VolumeCopy feature is designed to The IBM System Storage Proven™ pro- the DS4800 to quickly notify the provide full replication of one logical vol- gram is designed to identify and test IBM Support Center when the system ume (source) to another (target) within many of these products for interoper- detects a problem, helping to reduce or the DS4800.
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IBM System Storage DS4800 at a glance Characteristics Model RAID controller Cache Host interface Drive interface Supported drives RAID levels Storage partitions Maximum drives supported Fans and power supplies Rack support Management software SAN support Warranty Physical characteristics Dimensions Weight Supported systems1 1815-80A, 1815-82A, 1815-84A , 1815-88A Dual active Model 80A: 4GB battery-backed Model 82A: 4GB battery-backed Model 84A: 8GB battery-backed Model 88A: 16GB battery-backed 8 host
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For more information Contact your IBM representative, IBM Business Partner or visit: ibm.com/storage/disk/ds4800 © Copyright IBM Corporation 2006 IBM Systems and Technology Group 9000 Rita Road Tucson, AZ 85744 U.S.A. Produced in the United States July 2006 All Rights Reserved MB, GB and TB equal 1,000,000, 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, respectively, where referring to storage capacity. Actual storage capacity will vary based upon many factors and may be less than stated.