IBM DS3000 Series Storage

IBM System Storage DS3200

The IBM System Storage DS3200 is an external storage enclosure specifically designed for the small and medium business (SMB). The DS3200 addresses the top concerns of the businesses managing increasing demand for capacity, data availability, and functionality.

• 3 Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host interface and drive expansion technology
• Easy to deploy and manage with the DS3000 Storage Manager-perfect for inexperienced and/or part-time administrators
• Combination of 12 SAS or SATA 3.5″ drives per enclosure
• Expandable by attaching up to three EXP3000s, a total of 21.6TB of storage capacity with 450GB SAS or up to 48.0TB with 1.0TB SATA
• Affordable for the small and medium business budgets
• RAID data protection – redundant I/O paths and components, hot spares
• Shared-storage benefits – consolidation, single management, increased efficiencies within the IT infrastructure
• Telco model supports -48VDC power supplies
• NEBS and ETSI compliance for AC and DC models

SMBs face unique challenges. When new servers are purchased, typically they will house several drives. For an SMB with a restrictive budget, this is often viewed as a convenient and low-cost solution for their data storage. However as the organisation grows, this distributed storage strategy leads to wasted data space, duplicated functions, inefficiencies in data protection and availability inconsistencies.

An SMB can take an overburdened internal storage infrastructure to the next level by using the flexible and affordable SAS-based DS3200. The DS3200 combines next-generation SAS technology with time-proven designs for external storage and intuitive management interface to create a fully-featured storage system ideally-suited for the SMB.

By moving storage outside the server and sharing storage across several servers, the business can increase the capacity, management efficiency and availability of their data solution.

IBM System Storage DS3300

The IBM System Storage DS3300 is an external storage system specifically designed for a range of organisations’ data requirements. With iSCSI protocol, next-generation SAS back-end technology, and SAS and SATA drive intermix support, the DS3300 provides businesses with robust, reliable, and cost-effective networked storage.

• Two 1Gbps iSCSI host connections per controller
• One 3Gbps SAS drive interface for capacity expansion per controller
• Affordable, reliable IP networked-attached storage
• Combination of 12 SAS or SATA 3.5″ drives per enclosure
• Scalable to 5.4TB of storage capacity with 450GB hot-swappable SAS disks or 12.0TB with 1.0TB hot-swappable SATA disks in the first enclosure
• Expandable by attaching up to three EXP3000s for a total of 21.6TB of storage capacity with 450GB SAS or up to 48.0TB with 1.0TB SATA
• Telco model supports -48V DC power supplies
• NEBS and ETSI compliance for AC and DC models

With the increase of servers and the influx of data growth in today’s IT environments, organisations from a small-to-medium business to the enterprise understand the value that networking plays in managing applications and business data.

Today, the connectivity of storage devices must enable substantially higher scalability, availability and manageability than is possible with direct attached storage (DAS). To use data to its fullest extent, it must be accessible to those who need it. Consolidating data by means of a network is the best way to achieve this.

IBM expertise in external storage system development was the intellectual groundwork for the DS3300 providing cutting-edge technology and high reliability. The DS3300 is designed to meet the availability and consolidation needs for a wide range of users from the entry-level SMB to an enterprise’s remote site or departments.

The DS3300 provides organisations an affordable, reliable and scalable storage solution that takes advantage of their current IP infrastructure equipment and in-house expertise.

IBM System Storage DS3400

The IBM System Storage DS3400 is a fibre channel (FC) host-based external storage system specifically designed for a wide range of organisations. With FC interface technology, next-generation SAS back-end technology, SAS and SATA drive intermix support, and DS3000 Storage Manager Software, the DS3400 storage system provides businesses with robust, reliable, cost-effective FC networked storage.

The enclosure addresses the top concerns of businesses managing increasing demand for capacity, data availability and consolidated management.

• 4Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) interface technology
• Direct-attach storage (DAS) or SAN solution-start with a DAS configuration and seamlessly transition to a FC SAN when ready
• Easy to deploy and manage with the DS3000 Storage Manager
• Combination of 12 SAS or SATA 3.5″ drives per enclosure
• Scalable to 5.4TB of storage capacity with 450GB hot-swappable SAS disks or 12.0TB with 1.0TB hot-swappable SATA disks in the first enclosure
• Expandable by attaching up to three EXP3000s for a total of 21.6TB of storage capacity with 450GB SAS or up to 48.0TB with 1.0TB SATA
• Affordable for the small and medium business budgets