IBM System Storage
Encyclopedia
IBM System Storage is the brand name for IBM
's computer storage
products, covering both Disk and Tape products.
is a midrange storage controller from IBM. The Storwize V7000 is based on the IBM SAN Volume Controller
(SVC).
, FICON
and ESCON
host connectivity
and FICON
host connectivity
(SVC) is a block storage virtualization
appliance.
Entry Level
Mid-Tier
High-end
Storage Virtualization
Gateway Appliance to virtualize existing heterogeneous storage to gain the advantages of DataONTAP. Support includes IBM DS line, EMC, Hitachi, etc.
and Magstar
derived formats.
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
's computer storage
Computer storage
Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, refers to computer components and recording media that retain digital data. Data storage is one of the core functions and fundamental components of computers....
products, covering both Disk and Tape products.
DS3000 Series
The DS3000 products are made for IBM by LSILSI Corporation
LSI Corporation is an electronics company based in Milpitas, California that designs semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters and mobile networks.-History:...
- DS3200
- 3Gbit SASSerial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
single or dual-controller for direct host attachment (up to 6 hosts) - 2U enclosure with 12 SASSerial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
or SATASerial ATASerial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...
drive bays - can use up to 48 drives using EXP3000
- 3Gbit SAS
- DS3300
- 1Gbit iSCSI single or dual-controller with 2 host ports
- 2U enclosure with 12 SASSerial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
or SATASerial ATASerial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...
drive bays - can use up to 48 drives using EXP3000
- DS3400
- 4Gbit FC single or dual-controller with 4 host ports
- 2U enclosure with 12 SASSerial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
or SATASerial ATASerial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...
drive bays - can use up to 48 drives using EXP3000
- EXP3000
- 3Gbit SAS expansion drawer for direct host, DS3200 or DS3400 attachment
- 2U enclosure with 12 SASSerial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
or SATASerial ATASerial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...
drive bays
- DS3512/DS3524
- 6Gbit SAS single or dual-controller with 2 host ports. Controller options to add either 2 more 6Gbit SAS hosts ports, 4 8Gbit FC ports, or 4 1Gbit iSCSI ports.
- 2U enclosure with 12 3.5" (DS3512) or 24 2.5" (DS3524) SASSerial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
drive bays - can use up to 96 drives using EXP3512 or EXP3524
- EXP3512/EXP3524
- 6Gbit SAS expansion drawer for DS3512 or DS3524 attachment (no direct host attachment)
- 2U enclosure with 12 3.5" (EXP3512) or 24 2.5" (EXP3524) SASSerial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
drive bays
- DS3950 Express
- 8Gbit FC dual-controller with 8 Hosts ports
- Optional four 1Gbps iSCSI
- 3U enclosure with 16 SASSerial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
or SATASerial ATASerial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...
drive bays - can use up to 112 drives using EXP395
- EXP395
- 3U enclosure with 16 SASSerial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
or SATASerial ATASerial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...
drive bays
- 3U enclosure with 16 SAS
Storwize V7000
The IBM Storwize V7000IBM Storwize V7000
In Computer data Storage, the IBM Storwize V7000 is a midrange storage controller from IBM. The Storwize V7000 is based on the IBM SAN Volume Controller .- Hardware :...
is a midrange storage controller from IBM. The Storwize V7000 is based on the IBM SAN Volume Controller
IBM SAN Volume Controller
In computer data storage, the IBM SAN Volume Controller is a block storage virtualization appliance that belongs to the IBM System Storage product family. SVC implements an indirection, or "virtualization", layer in a Fibre Channel storage area network .- Architecture :SVC is always deployed as a...
(SVC).
DS8000 Series
Enterprise storage, supporting FCFibre Channel
Fibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
, FICON
FICON
FICON is the IBM proprietary name for the ANSI FC-SB-3 Single-Byte Command Code Sets-3 Mapping Protocol for Fibre Channel protocol. It is a FC layer 4 protocol used to map both IBM’s antecedent channel-to-control-unit cabling infrastructure and protocol onto standard FC services and infrastructure...
and ESCON
ESCON
ESCON is a data connection created by IBM, and is commonly used to connect their mainframe computers to peripheral devices such as disk storage and tape drives. ESCON is an optical fiber, half-duplex, serial interface. It originally operated at a rate of 10 Mbyte/s, which was later increased to...
host connectivity
- DS8100
- two 2-way POWER5+POWER5The POWER5 is a microprocessor developed and fabricated by IBM. It is an improved version of the highly successful POWER4. The principal improvements are support for simultaneous multithreading and an on-die memory controller...
controllers - can contain up to 384 drives
- drives can be Fibre ChannelFibre ChannelFibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
or SATASerial ATASerial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...
- two 2-way POWER5+
- DS8300
- two 4-way POWER5+POWER5The POWER5 is a microprocessor developed and fabricated by IBM. It is an improved version of the highly successful POWER4. The principal improvements are support for simultaneous multithreading and an on-die memory controller...
controllers (based on p570 servers) - can contain up to 1024 drives
- drives can be Fibre ChannelFibre ChannelFibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
or SATASerial ATASerial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...
- two 4-way POWER5+
- DS8700
- 2- or 4-way POWER6POWER6The POWER6 is a microprocessor developed by IBM that implemented the Power ISA v.2.03. When it became available in systems in 2007, it succeeded the POWER5+ as IBM's flagship Power microprocessor...
based controller - 3.5" Fiber Channel drives
- 2- or 4-way POWER6
- DS8800
- 2- or 4-way POWER6+POWER6The POWER6 is a microprocessor developed by IBM that implemented the Power ISA v.2.03. When it became available in systems in 2007, it succeeded the POWER5+ as IBM's flagship Power microprocessor...
based controller - 2.5" SAS-2 drivesSerial Attached SCSISerial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...
- 2- or 4-way POWER6+
DS4000 Series
- EXP3000
- 3,5' SAS disks (10k, 15k)
- EXP420
- 4Gbit FC Expansion drawer for DS4200 attachment
- 3U enclosure with 16 SATASerial ATASerial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...
drive bays
- EXP810
- 4Gbit FC Expansion drawer for DS4300, DS4500, DS4700 or DS4800 attachment
- 3U enclosure with 16 Fibre ChannelFibre ChannelFibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
drive bays
DS6000 Series
Enterprise storage, supporting both FCFibre Channel
Fibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
and FICON
FICON
FICON is the IBM proprietary name for the ANSI FC-SB-3 Single-Byte Command Code Sets-3 Mapping Protocol for Fibre Channel protocol. It is a FC layer 4 protocol used to map both IBM’s antecedent channel-to-control-unit cabling infrastructure and protocol onto standard FC services and infrastructure...
host connectivity
- DS6800
- PowerPC 750 dual-controller with 8 host ports and 8 drive ports
- 3U enclosure with 16 FC drive bays
- can contain up to 128 drives using DS6000 expansion units
- drives can be Fibre ChannelFibre ChannelFibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute –accredited standards...
or SATASerial ATASerial ATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives...
DCS9900
Disk storage system targeting HPC workloads. It is based on the DataDirect Networks S2A9900SAN Volume Controller
The IBM SAN Volume ControllerIBM SAN Volume Controller
In computer data storage, the IBM SAN Volume Controller is a block storage virtualization appliance that belongs to the IBM System Storage product family. SVC implements an indirection, or "virtualization", layer in a Fibre Channel storage area network .- Architecture :SVC is always deployed as a...
(SVC) is a block storage virtualization
Storage Virtualization
Storage virtualization or storage virtualisation is a concept and term used within computer science. Specifically, storage systems may use virtualization concepts as a tool to enable better functionality and more advanced features within the storage system.Broadly speaking, a 'storage system' is...
appliance.
SONAS
SONAS is the IBM Enterprise storage platform based on GPFS technology. This system supports NAS based protocols over a large scale global name space. Today the system can scale out using commodity components to 30 balanced nodes and up to 14.4 PB of storage. GPFS gives the SONAS system with built in ILM and tight integration with TSM allows administrators to move data to disk pools.N Series
The N Series is a Unified Architecture that Natively supports Block and File based protocols (FCP, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, FCoE). There is deep Enterprise application integration and enhanced storage efficiency technology, such as Block level De-duplication on Primary Data. The N Series is through an OEM Relationship with NetApp.- All Product lines are certified IDC 99.999% availability and share the same feature functionality, Can be used for Tier 1, 2 or 3.
Entry Level
- N3300 (68TB maximum raw capacity)
- N3400
- N3600 (104TB maximum raw capacity)
Mid-Tier
- N6040 (420TB maximum raw capacity)
- N6060
- N6070 (840TB maximum raw capacity)
High-end
- N7900 (1.1PB maximum raw capacity)
Storage Virtualization
Gateway Appliance to virtualize existing heterogeneous storage to gain the advantages of DataONTAP. Support includes IBM DS line, EMC, Hitachi, etc.
Withdrawn Disk Systems
- EXP300 (SCSISCSISmall Computer System Interface is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices. The SCSI standards define commands, protocols, and electrical and optical interfaces. SCSI is most commonly used for hard disks and tape drives, but it...
Ultra160 Expansion drawer for direct host attachment) - EXP400 (SCSISCSISmall Computer System Interface is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices. The SCSI standards define commands, protocols, and electrical and optical interfaces. SCSI is most commonly used for hard disks and tape drives, but it...
Ultra320 Expansion drawer for direct host or DS400 attachment) - DS300 (iSCSIISCSIIn computing, iSCSI , is an abbreviation of Internet Small Computer System Interface, an Internet Protocol -based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. By carrying SCSI commands over IP networks, iSCSI is used to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage...
controller) - DS400 (FC Attached controller, using SCSI drives)
- DS4000 Series
- EXP100 (1Gbit FC Expansion drawer for DS4000 attachment, using SATA disks)
- EXP700 (2Gbit FC Expansion drawer for DS4000 attachment)
- EXP710 (2Gbit FC Expansion drawer for DS4000 attachment)
- DS4100 (FC Attached controller, using SATA drives)
- DS4200
- DS4300
- DS4300 Turbo
- DS4400
- DS4500
- DS4700
- DS4800
- FAStT Series (renamed to DS4000 Series)
- EXP200 (1Gbit FC Expansion drawer for FAStT attachment)
- EXP500 (1Gbit FC Expansion drawer for FAStT attachment)
- FAStT100 (renamed to DS4100)
- FAStT200
- FAStT500
- FAStT600 (renamed to DS4300)
- FAStT600 Turbo (renamed DS4300 Turbo)
- FAStT700 (renamed to DS4400)
- FAStT900 (renamed to DS4500)
- Enterprise Storage ServerIBM Enterprise Storage ServerThe IBM Enterprise Storage Server or the Shark is an enterprise storage array from IBM.-History:Originally, in 1998 IBM released the IBM 2105 Versatile Storage Server...
(or ESS, or Shark; predecessor of DS8000 Series) - DCS9550 (based on the DataDirect Networks S2A9550)
Current Tape Drives
The IBM tape product range includes drives and tapes based on LTOLinear Tape-Open
Linear Tape-Open is a magnetic tape data storage technology originally developed in the late 1990s as an open standards alternative to the proprietary magnetic tape formats that were available at the time. Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Seagate initiated the LTO Consortium, which directs development...
and Magstar
IBM 3592
The IBM 3592 is a series of tape drives and corresponding magnetic tape data storage media formats developed by IBM. The first drive, having the IBM product number 3592, was introduced under the nickname Jaguar. The next drive was the TS1120, also having the nickname Jaguar. As of June, 2011, the...
derived formats.
- TS1120 - tape drive supporting 3592 media
- TS2230 - half-height, single slot LTO-3
- TS2340 - single slot LTO-4 (equivalent to the previous LTO 3580 tape drive)
Current Tape Libraries
- TS3100 - one or two LTO-3, LTO-4 or LTO-5 drive library (24 cartridges)
- TS3200 - one or two LTO-3, LTO-4 or LTO-5 drive library (48 cartridges)
- TS3310 - expandable library with up to 18 LTO-3, LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives (409 cartridges maximum with expansion modules)
- TS3400 - one or two TS1120 drive library (18 cartridges)
- TS3500 - ultrascalable tape library with LTO or 3592 drives (up to 16 frames, 192 drives and over 20,000 cartridges capacity)
Current Tape Virtualization Products
- TS7510 / TS7520 - virtualization engines (virtual tape librariesVirtual Tape LibraryA virtual tape library is a data storage virtualization technology used typically for backup and recovery purposes. A VTL presents a storage component as tape libraries or tape drives for use with existing backup software.Virtualizing the disk storage as tape allows integration of VTLs with...
) for Open Systems - TS7700 - virtualization engine (virtual tape libraryVirtual Tape LibraryA virtual tape library is a data storage virtualization technology used typically for backup and recovery purposes. A VTL presents a storage component as tape libraries or tape drives for use with existing backup software.Virtualizing the disk storage as tape allows integration of VTLs with...
) for System z (mainframe)