A cost-effective way to take advantage of storage consolidation, the IBM System Storage DS3400 Express, features Fibre Channel direct-attach or SAN solution for easy transition. It’s also simple to deploy and manage, and it’s expandable as you grow.
The IBM System Storage DS3400 Express leads the way for organizations to cost-effectively take advantage of consolidating storage with a Fibre Channel direct-attach or SAN solution
IBM System Storage DS3400 Express
As a business matures, so does the amount of data and the value of the data that it holds within the organization. If the data is distributed across servers and individual storage systems, the business will face increased cost and complexity along with the accompanying business risks. Highlights The IBM System StorageT DS3400 ? 4 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) ? Expandable by attaching up to Express leads the way for these organiinterface technology three EXP3000s for a total of zations to take advantage of consoli21.6 TB of storage capacity dating and sharing this data within a ? Direct-attach storage (DAS) or with 450 GB SAS or up to direct-attach or FC SAN solution. SAN solution-start with a DAS 48.0 TB with 1.0 TB SATA The DS3400 Express adds the most con?guration and seamlessly advanced front-end 4 Gbps FC techtransition to a FC SAN when ? Flexible for use with IBM nology to IBM time-proven designs for ready System xT, IBM System p® enterprise-class RAID storage. With FC and BladeCenter® servers host connectivity and SAS back-end ? Easy to deploy and manage technology, the DS3400 Express is with the DS3000 Storage ? Affordable for the small and designed to improve productivity Manager medium business budgets through data consolidation, availability, performance and scalability. ? Combination of 12 SAS or ? Telco model supports -48 V dc SATA 3.5" drives per enclosure power supplies
? Scalable to 5.4 TB of storage ? NEBS and ETSI compliance for capacity with 450 GB hot AC and DC models swappable SAS disks or 12.0 TB with 1.0 TB hot-swappable SATA disks in the ?rst enclosure Easy to deploy and manage Expand with multiple EXP3000s can deliver powerful dynamic capabiliThe IBM System Storage DS3000 The scalability of the DS3400 Express ties that help you protect data. The Storage Manager software is designed enables IT managers to respond to a disk storage system enables copy to provide a friendly user interface from constantly changing storage environ and disaster recovery features such as setup to administration. This intuitive ment. By starting small, the DS3400 FlashCopy® and VolumeCopy that can software builds on generations of enables users to make additional be enabled when required by your IBM software development to provide investments in their infrastructure when application. trusted and reliable data management. data growth necessitates; thus organiIts task-based user interface signi? zations can easily increase capacity Telco options cantly reduces the complexity of and storage capabilities with minimal The IBM System Storage DS3400 installation, con?guration, and manage cost and effort. The DS3400 Express Express includes a DC powered model ment. The DS3000 Storage Manager capacity is increased by adding hard that is especially suited for telco indusapproach is designed to enable even disk drives and by expanding the con try environments. The IBM System non-storage savvy administrators to ?guration and adding EXP3000 Express Storage DS3400 Express Model 42T, quickly set up and deploy their storage expansion units. Both of these opera a NEBS-3 and ETSI compliant disk solution. tions can be performed without having system and the IBM System Storage to take the DS3400 Express off-line. EXP3000 Express Model 02T storage Tiered storage solution This means "zero-impact" to your expansion unit are both designed to Tiered storage is the assignment of environment and gives users control of be powered from a -48 V dc telco different categories of data to different their data storage as they expand industry-standard power supply. types of drives in order to reduce total capacity on an as-needed basis. storage cost. A key attribute of the Priced right for small business DS3000 Express series of disk systems Flexible approach to storage With the functionality and availability is the integration of SAS and SATA The DS3400 Express is a comprehen features that come standard and a technologies within a single enclosure. sive storage solution for IBM System x, price point that does not strain the This simpli?es purchasing and storage IBM System p, IBM BladeCenter and budget, the DS3400 Express is the deplo... [download for more]
