Ibm Ds4300 Model 60U/60X With Turbo Option; Ds4000 Exp Storage Expansion Enclosures - IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Installation, User's, And Maintenance Manual

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IBM DS4300 Model 60U/60X with Turbo option

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DS4000 EXP storage expansion enclosures

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IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Fibre Channel Storage Subsystem: Installation, User's, and Maintenance Guide
to the DS4300 with individual fibre channel disk drive module capacities ranging
from 36.4 to 300 GB and individual SATA disk drive module capacities of 500 GB.
Note: The maximum of 112 drives in a DS4300 storage subsystem is achieved
only when all of the attached drive expansion enclosures are of 14 drive
storage expansion enclosures type (EXP100/EXP700/EXP710). When using
the 16 drive storage expansion enclosure type (EXP810) or intermixing the
14 drive and 16 drive storage expansion enclosure types behind the DS4300
controller, the maximum number of drives supported in the DS4300 controller
drive loop is 110. Please refer to Table 3 on page 6 for the maximum number
of drives supported in a DS4300 with various combinations of the 14 drive
and 16 drive storage expansion enclosures types.
Attention: The disk drive modules for the DS4300 storage subsystem and the
EXP700 and the EXP710 storage expansion enclosures (DS4300/EXP700/EXP710)
are not the same as the SATA disk drive modules (DDMs) for the EXP100 nor the
FC or SATA enhanced disk drives modules (E-DDMs) for the EXP810. The
DS4300/EXP700/EXP710, EXP100 and EXP810 use different non-interchangeable
drive options and CRUs. Please order the correct options/CRUs for the enclosures
in your configuration. Force-fitting insertion of the incorrect disk drive modules can
cause damage to the drive CRUs or the enclosure chassis slots /backplane. IBM
does not sell or provide replacement parts to change the drive CRU form factors.
The standard DS4300 dual-controller storage subsystem (Model 60U/60X) supports
a maximum of three EXP storage expansion enclosures. In order to support up to
seven EXP units, you must purchase the DS4300 Turbo option.
The DS4300 dual-controller storage subsystem (Model 60U/60X) with Turbo option
will be referred to as the DS4300 dual-controller Turbo Model 60U/60X in IBM
publications and Readme files. The Turbo option can be purchased in the initial
order or at a later time as IBM DS4300 Model 60U/60X Turbo Upgrade option (IBM
P/Ns 24P8215 for models 60U and 24P8216 for models 60X).
The latest versions of the IBM DS4000 host software and the DS4000 controller
firmware on the DS4000 System Storage Support Web site that support the
DS4300 dual-controller Turbo Model 60U/60X storage subsystem are version 9 and
6.19.xx.xx, respectively.
The DS4300 Turbo option consists of the following:
v Two 1-GB memory RAID controllers
v License for connecting up to seven 14 drive EXP storage expansion enclosures
or six 16 drive EXP storage expansion enclosures or a combination of up to six
14 and 16 drive EXP storage expansion enclosures
v Entitlement for eight partitions using the Storage Partitioning premium feature
You can add up to seven 14 drive DS4000 EXP storage expansion enclosures to
the DS4300 dual-controller storage subsystem (Model 60U/60X) or six 16 drive
DS4000 EXP storage expansion enclosures to the DS4300 dual-controller storage
subsystem (Model 60U/60X).