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IBM System Storage N series (continued)/System Storage Software

N series Highlights

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Uniﬁed storage architecture—provides a single storage platform to support hetero-

geneous, multiprotocol storage requirements with the capability of simultaneously han-

dling both Block I/O (with FCP or iSCSI protocol) and File I/O (with CIFS, NFS, HTTP,

FTP, FCoE) application needs

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Application-aware software—SnapManager software provides host-based data

management of N series storage for databases and business applications. Simpliﬁes

application-consistent policy-based automation for data protection and disaster recover.

Snapshot copies and automates error-free data restores and enables application-aware

disaster recovery

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Thin Provisioning—allows applications and users to get more space dynamically and

nondisruptively without IT staff intervention

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Ease of installation—offers installation tools designed to help simplify installation

and setup

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Increased access—allows heterogeneous access to IP attached storage and Fibre

Channel attached storage subsystems

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Operating system—optimized and ﬁnely tuned for storing and sharing data assets,

designing to enable greater efficiency within your organization and help lower TCO

through improved efficiency and productivity

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Flexibility—enables cross-platform data access for Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Linux

environments that can help reduce network complexity and expense, and allow data to

be shared across the organization

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Network Attached Storage (NAS)—supports Network File System (NFS), Common

Internet File System (CIFS) protocols for attachment to Microsoft Windows, UNIX and

Linux systems

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IP SAN—supports Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) protocols for IP

SAN attached to a multitude of host servers including Microsoft Windows, Linux, and

UNIX systems

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FC SAN—supports Fibre Channel protocols (FCP) for accommodating attachment and

participation in ﬁbre channel SAN environments

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FCoE—supports Fibre Channel ﬂow over Ethernet networks

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Scalability—supports nondisruptive capacity increases as well as thin-provisioning

(dynamically allow the increase and decrease of user capacity assignments). Allows you

to scale your storage infrastructure to keep pace with company growth

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Designed to maintain availability and productivity during upgrades

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Manageability—includes integrated system diagnostics and management tools, which

are designed to help minimize downtime

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Redundancy—several redundancy and hot-swappable features provide the highest

system availability characteristics

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Copy Services—provides extensive outboard services that help recover data in disas-

ter recovery environments. SnapMirror provides one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-

one mirroring over Fibre Channel or IP infrastructures

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NearStore (near-line) feature—SATA drive technology enables online and quick

access to archived and nonintensive transactional data

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Advanced Single Instance Storage (A-SIS)—provides block-level deduplication of

data stored in NearStore volumes

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Compliance and data retention—software and hardware features that offer non-

erasable and nonrewritable data protection to meet the industry’s highest regulatory

requirements for retaining company data assets

NOTES:

A single controller can be easily upgraded to a dual controller system as your comput-

ing needs increase. The dual controller is a fully redundant system and is designed to

provide failover and failback capabilities.

The N series Interoperability Matrix can be found at the following Web site:

ibm.com/storage/network/interophome.html

The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of NetApp Inc.; Data ONTAP,

FlexCache, FlexScale, FlexVol, FilerView, Protection Manager, SecureAdmin, RAID-DP,

SecureAdmin, FlexClone, MultiStore, SnapLock, Snapshot, SnapDrive, SnapMirror,

SnapMover, SnapRestore, SnapVault, SnapManager, SnapValidator, SyncMirror,

FlexShare, NearStore, Virtual File Manager

IBM System Storage Multilevel Grid Access Manager Software (Grid Access Manager Software)

Function and Value Highlights

Grid Access Manager Software is built on an open, high-performance grid architecture that

delivers data protection, information lifecycle management, simpliﬁed storage management

and multisite data access based on open standards.

Grid Access Manager Software enables customers with single or multiple sites and with

ﬁxed content/reference data storage requirements to improve storage utilization and invest-

ment across sites by way of an enterprise-wide, fault-tolerant storage grid with real-time

failover capabilities. Grid Access Manager Software can help protect enterprise data

through automated replication, lifecycle management and digital signature functionality.

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The potential beneﬁts derived from these features can help deliver important cost savings and

operational efficiencies, including: Simpliﬁed management and improved storage utilization,

with excellent performance; Data protection and improved business continuity; Support for

global access, multisite operation.

Disk Storage Virtualization

Reduce storage complexity and lower costs through virtualization. IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller keeps it simple.

Product Function and Value Highlights

IBM System Storage

SAN Volume Controller

(SVC) and IBM System

Storage SAN Volume

Controller Entry Edition

(SVC EE)

SAN Volume Controller is a disk storage virtualization sys-

tem that is designed to help businesses improve storage

utilization and reduce the costs associated with disk stor-

age. SAN Volume Controller is designed to pool storage

volumes from IBM and non-IBM storage systems into a

reservoir of capacity for centralized management. SAN

Volume Controller is also designed to hide the boundaries

among disk systems, which helps simplify management

and enables customers to focus on managing storage as a

resource to meet business requirements and not as a set

of boxes.

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IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Entry Edition: SVC EE has all the

functional richness of the full SVC product but is packaged and priced to meet the require-

ments of small and midsize business (SMB) customers. SVC Entry Edition supports storage

conﬁgurations containing up to 250 disk drives and is designed to grow smoothly with your

business.

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Innovative Solid-State Device (SSD) support: The SVC scalable architecture is

designed to deliver outstanding performance with SSDs for critical applications, up to

800,000 read I/Os per second. SVC helps move critical data to and from SSDs as needed

without application disruption.

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iSCSI server attachment support: iSCSI attachment avoids the cost of ﬁbre channel host

bus adapters (HBAs) in servers and reduces the need for ﬁbre channel switches. This capabil-

ity may be particularly attractive for IBM BladeCenter server conﬁgurations.

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Improved storage utilization: By pooling capacity, storage administrators can make better

use of the storage capacity. Improvements of up to 30 percent in storage utilization have

been seen in SVC customers. SVC’s Space-Efficient Virtual Disks function helps to improve

storage utilization even more because it is designed to use physical storage capacity only

when data is written to virtual disks instead of dedicating physical capacity to the entire

deﬁned virtual capacity. This capability is also referred to as “thin provisioning.”

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Reduced storage growth: SVC helps reduce storage growth; customers have seen reduc-

tions in growth of up to 20 percent.

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Simpliﬁed management: SVC provides a single interface for managing all types of sup-

ported storage. As a result, storage administration is made simpler and storage administra-

tors can become more productive. Productivity improvements of up to two times have been

seen in SVC customers.

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Storage virtualization support: Storage virtualization with SVC enables customers to

obtain maximum beneﬁt from virtualized infrastructures.

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Tiered storage: SVC makes it much easier to implement tiered storage, which enables a

mix of different types of storage to be used, including lower cost storage helping to reduce

overall costs. Because SVC also has cache, it can improve the performance of data stored on

lower cost storage, enabling such storage to be used more widely in a data center, further

reducing costs.

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Replication functions: SVC implements a common set of replication functions

(IBM FlashCopy, Metro Mirror and Global Mirror) that can be applied to all supported storage.

This ability can help enhance the value of lower cost storage that may have more basic func-

tionality and helps improve choice when selecting storage, which can be limited by propri-

etary replication functions. The Space-Efficient FlashCopy function helps to dramatically

reduce the amount of storage needed for FlashCopy replicas. Savings of 75 percent or more

can be expected.

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Improved availability: SVC makes it possible to move data among supported disk systems

without disrupting applications. As a result, common data center events such as moving data

at lease expiration or rebalancing loads across disk systems no longer require costly outages.

The Virtual Disk Mirroring function helps to protect against failure of disk systems or disruptive

maintenance activities to disk systems.

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