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Additional Features
IBM has combined best-of-breed development with leading 6 Gbps host interface and drive technology in the IBM System Storage® DS3500 Express®. With its simple, efficient and flexible approach to storage, the DS3500 is a cost-effective, fully integrated complement to System x® servers, BladeCenter® and Power Systems™. Offering substantial improvements at a price that will fit most budgets, the DS3500 delivers superior price to performance ratios, functionality, scalability and ease of use for the entry-level storage user.
Comes with new VMware vCenter™ Management Plug-in for IBM System Storage™
Price does not include installation
Six Gbps SAS systems deliver midrange performance and scalability at entry-level prices
Data consolidation helps ensure data availability and efficiency
Management expertise is built into an intuitive and powerful storage management software
Provides investment protection and cost-effective backup and recovery with remote mirror across Fibre Channel and compatibility with DS5000 and DS4000
Mixed host interface support enables DAS and SAN tiering, reducing overall operation and acquisition costs
Full disk encryption with local key management provides relentless data security
Offers NEBS and ETSI compliance and support for 48V dc power supplies
IBM has combined best-of-breed development with leading 6 Gbps host interface and drive technology in the IBM® System Storage® DS3500 Express®. With its simple, efficient and flexible approach to storage, the DS3500 is a cost-effective, fully integrated complement to IBM System x® servers, IBM BladeCenter® and IBM Power Systems™. Offering substantial improvements at a price that will fit most budgets, the DS3500 delivers superior price to performance ratios, functionality, scalability and ease of use for the entry-level storage user.
Scalability to midrange performance and features starting at entry-level prices.
Efficiency to help reduce annual energy expenditures and environmental footprint.
Simplicity that does not sacrifice control with the perfect combination of robustness and ease of use.
Next-generation 6 Gbps SAS systems deliver midrange performance and scalability at entry-level prices
Data consolidation to ensure data availability and efficiencies across the organization
Energy saving implementations for cost savings today and tomorrow
The DS3500 meets the NEBS telecommunications specification requiring very robust abilities and support for 48 V DC power supplies
Management expertise built into an intuitive and powerful storage management software
Investment protection and cost-effective backup and recovery with 16 remote mirror capability across Fibre Channel host ports and compatibility with DS5000 and DS4000
Mixed host interfaces support enables DAS and SAN tiering reducing overall operation and acquisition costs
Relentless data security with local key management of full drive encryption drives
Drive and expansion enclosure intermix cost-effectively meets all application, rack and energy efficiency requirements
DS Storage Manager software
- Partitioning (128)
- IBM FlashCopy® (256)
- Volume Copy (255)
- Remote Mirroring through Fibre Channel host ports (16)
Dual active, hot-swappable controllers
Four interface options—SAS, iSCSI/SAS, FC/SAS
- Four or eight 6 Gbps SAS ports
- Eight 8 Gbps FC ports and four 6 Gbps SAS ports
- Eight 1 Gbps iSCSI ports and four 6 Gbps SAS ports
- Four 10 Gbps iSCSI ports and four 6 Gbps SAS ports
Two 6 Gbps SAS drive expansion ports
Up to 192 drives—high performance and nearline (NL) SAS, and SED SAS drives
- Enclosures can be intermixed behind a controller
1 GB cache per controller with 2 GB upgrade
- Mirrored, battery-backed, destaged to flash
Power and cooling module houses power supplies, redundant cooling fans
All primary components are hot-swappable CRUs and can be easily accessed and removed or replaced
DC-powered models available in enclosures for 24 drives of 2.5" (DS3524 and EXP2524)
Feature
Benefits
Host interface intermix
Support for intermixing SAS and Fibre Channel or SAS and iSCSI interfaces allows for cost-effective SAN tiering and consolidation
Balanced performance
Equally adept at IOPS and MBps, the DS3500 is able to support applications with wide-ranging performance requirements
Well suited for consolidation and virtualization environments that have diverse workloads and application requirements
Designed to concurrently support transactional applications and throughput-intensive applications
Complete testing and integration with IBM® System x®, IBM BladeCenter® and IBM Power Systems™ servers
With its simple, efficient and flexible approach to storage, the DS3500 is a cost-effective, fully integrated complement to System x, BladeCenter and Power Systems servers.
Support for SED drives
Comprehensive protection for data-at-rest helps ensure data is secured throughout the drive’s life cycle without sacrificing performance or ease of use
Scalability up to 192 drives
“Start small, grow big” provides the flexibility to grow with their data needs
Not locked into high-quantity drive purchase at initial purchase
Support for drive intermix
Ability to intermix high-performance SAS, near-line SAS and SED SAS drives enables tiered storage
Cost-effectively support an organization’s complete range of data capacity requirements—from near-line to highly utilized applications—with support for mixed drive types within a single storage system
Enclosure-based intermixing maximizes efficiency
Near-line SAS drives support
Near-line SAS drives are also the clear replacement of SATA drives; competitively priced to SATA drives, near-line SAS drives significantly outperform SATA and do so with greater reliability, for a comparable price
2.5-in and 3.5-in drive support
Additional drive flexibility supports both high performance and great IOPS/Watt requirements
Tray-level drive intermix cost-effectively meets all application, rack and energy efficiency requirements within a single storage system
Superior disk utilization
Achieve great performance with fewer drives
Lower drive investment and reduced heat dissipation
Support for greater than 2 TB LUNs
Maximizes capacity utilizations for applications that need to move large amounts of data with maximum throughput performance
Fully configured RAID 0 and 10 Volume Groups
Ideal for very large databases or file systems, or those wishing to utilize more than 30 drives per volume to maximize performance
Built-in efficiencies
Modular design avoids over-configuration for an affordable entry point while offering seamless “pay-as-you-grow” scalability as requirements change
Efficient utilization lowers raw capacity requirement and support for intermixing drives enables tiered storage
Exceptional per-drive performance creates performance value by getting the most performance out of the fewest drives
DS3500 DC model
Meets the standard 48 V dc requirements of telecommunications and related industries
A NEBS/ETSI compliant storage system provides assurance of resiliency in the most intense and harsh environments
DS Storage Manager
Full-time storage administrators achieve complete control over their storage configuration and part-time users have an intuitive and simple interface
Centralized management of all local and networked DS5000, DS4000® and DS3500 storage systems—increased management efficiencies and reduced learning curve with single management
Investment protection with enhanced remote mirroring support across FC host interfaces
Dynamic software capabilities
Enhanced functionality with the ability to expand capacity, volume size, segment size, volume groups and migrate RAID levels with no data I/O interruption
Simply adjust to changes in application, availability, or performance requirements without interruption
Configure volumes, perform routine maintenance and add new enclosures and capacity without interrupting access to data
Up to 128 partitions supported
Enough partitions to effectively support medium-scale consolidation or virtualization environments, thus helping to reduce hardware and storage management costs
Online firmware upgrades
Firmware upgrades can occur with continued data accessibility continues in dual controller configurations
Organizational productivity and customer satisfaction is assured with data available 24/7/365
Up to 256 FlashCopy images per storage system and eight per volume support granular backup and recovery
Multiple options allows administrators to best fit their replication needs
Local or remote copies—across the Fibre Channel interface—can be used for file restoration, backups, application testing, data mining or disaster recovery
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- Dual Controller SAS System Storage and bundle with 4 pcs of 2TB 7.2k RPM NL-SAS Drive.
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