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IBM TotalStorage DS4300

Scalable, high-performance storage for on demand computing

environments

IBM TotalStorage DS4300

Highlights

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Designed to deliver high per-

formance of up to 768 MBps

throughput with turbo option

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Supports up to 112 hard drives

and scales up to 33.6TB with

high performance 2Gb FC disks

with the DS4300 Turbo

, or

28TB with Serial ATA disks with

DS4300 and DS4300 Turbo.

Supports up to 14 hard drives

and scales to 4.2TB with

DS4300 single controller

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Includes IBM TotalStorage®

DS4000 Storage Manager to

help centrally manage the

DS4000 series (formerly the

FAStT Storage Servers)

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Designed to help facilitate stor-

age consolidation in storage

area network (SAN), network

attached storage (NAS) and

direct-attach environments

Wide range of storage consolidation and

clustering applications

The IBM TotalStorage DS4300 (formerly

FAStT600 Storage Server) is designed

to be an affordable, scalable storage

server for storage consolidation and

clustering applications. Its modular

architecture—which includes Dynamic

Capacity Addition, Dynamic Volume

Expansion and a turbo option—can

support e-business on demand™

environments by helping to enable

storage to grow as demands increase.

Autonomic features such as online

ﬁrmware upgrades and DS4000 Service

Alert also help enhance the system’s

usability.

The DS4000 EXP710 switched disk

expansion unit has an ESM-embedded

Fibre Channel “loop switch.” The loop

switch creates what is essentially point-

to-point Fibre Channel communication,

allowing the ESMs and drives to oper-

ate as though they were on a private

Fibre Channel arbitrated loop, but with

(formerly IBM TotalStorage FAStT600)

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IBM TotalStorage DS4300Scalable, high-performance storage for on demand computingenvironmentsIBM TotalStorage DS4300Highlights Designed to deliver hig

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Part of the DS4000 SeriesThe DS4300 is part of the DS4000series, which uses common storagemanagement software and expansionenclosures. Dual controller

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system, thereby providing ﬂexibility togrow with your business. In addition, byusing the IBM TotalStorage DS4000Storage Manager software, multipleDS43

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Other features of the turbo optioninclude an increased cache size of 2GBand an auto-sensing capability to helpdetect host connectivity speed. Thisauto

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Enhanced storage managementcapabilitiesThe IBM TotalStorage DS4300 has sev-eral features designed to improve datamanagement and storage system per-for

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Service and supportThe DS4000 series has a three-yearhardware warranty. Additional servicesfor hardware installation, DS4000Storage Manager conﬁgurati

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CharacteristicsModel 1722-60U, 1722-6LU (single controller model)RAID controller Single or dual active 2GB RAID controllersCache Single controller mod

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