IBM Midrange System DS4000 Series Hardware Manual page 41

Midrange system storage ds4000/ds5000 series

Hide thumbs Also See for Midrange System DS4000 Series:

Table of Contents

IBM System Storage DS4000 and

DS5000 hardware

This chapter describes the hardware and features of the current IBM System Storage

DS4000 and the DS5000 family, including the new IBM System Storage DS5020 Express.

This section details the DS5000 products, which include the DS5020, DS5100, and the

DS5300. The DS4000 product covered in this section includes only the DS4700 model; for

more details about the older DS4000 models, see IBM System Storage DS4000 and Storage

Manager V10.30, SG24-7010.

The chapter also includes a description of additional hardware components that are essential

for a complete storage solution. These include the new EXP5000 and the EXP520, with

cabling considerations.

The IBM System Storage DS storage subsystem is designed for the rigors of consolidation.

The architecture allows for linear scalability, and it is easy to customize a balanced workload

to fulfill high IOPS and MBps requirements. Replaceable host cards enable modular adoption

for different host interface techniques, such as 4 Gbps FC, 8 Gbps FC, iSCSI, and so on.