Performance Features - IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Introduction And Planning Manual

The DDMs are installed in a horizontal position with a locking handle. The rear of
the enclosure provides the docking sites for the power supplies and the controller
cards.
You can attach the DS6800 and expansion enclosure by using the controller card
interfaces at the rear of the enclosure. A system display panel is also located at the
rear of the enclosure.

Performance features

The DS6000 series is built upon 2 Gbps fibre channel technology that can help
bring high availability RAID-protected storage with scalable capacity, increased
addressing capabilities, and connectivity to a wide range of storage area network
(SAN) applications.
The DS6000 series provides the following technology and hardware to meet today's
on demand business environments:
Integrated RAID controller technology
High availability
Industry standard fibre channel disk drives
LUN and volume management
Addressing capabilities
Simplified storage management for zSeries with z/OS
System management
Online Information Center
4
Introduction and Planning Guide
The DS6000 series features IBM's 32-bit PowerPC microprocessor, a fourth
generation processing technology.
The DS6000 series is designed with component redundancy to eliminate
single points of hardware failure, and no single point of repair other than the
enclosure.
The DS6000 series offers a selection of 2 Gb fibre channel disk drives,
including 300 GB drives, allowing the DS6000 series to scale up to 67 TB
of capacity.
LUN and volume creation and deletion is nondisruptive. When you delete a
LUN or volume, the capacity can immediately be reused. You can configure
LUN and volumes to span arrays, which allows larger LUNs and volumes.
The DS6000 series allows:
v Up to 32 logical subsystems
v Up to 8192 logical volumes
v Up to 1040 volume groups
The DS6000 series supports a new 65 520 cylinder 3390 volume. This
volume option has a capacity of approximately 55.7 GB. It helps relieve
addressing constraints, improve disk resource utilization, and improve
storage administrator productivity by providing the ability to consolidate
multiple disk volumes into a single address.
The DS6000 series provides online and offline configuration capability
features and a graphical user interface (GUI) designed to offer increased
ease of use.
A single command line interface (CLI) supports both logical configuration
and copy services.
The online Information Center is an information database that provides you