Chapter 1. Introduction; Overview Of The Ds6000 Series Models - IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Introduction And Planning Manual

Chapter 1. Introduction

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and is built upon 2 Gbps fibre channel technology that provides RAID-protected
storage with advanced functionality, scalability, and increased addressing
capabilities.
The DS6000 series offers a high reliability and performance midrange storage
solution through the use of hot-swappable redundant RAID controllers in a space
efficient modular design. The DS6000 series provides storage sharing and
consolidation for a wide variety of operating systems and mixed server
environments.
The DS6000 series offers high scalability while maintaining excellent performance.
With the DS6800 (Model 1750-511), you can install up to 16 disk drive modules
(DDMs). The minimum storage capability with 8 DDMs is 584 GB. The maximum
storage capability with 16 DDMs for the DS6800 model is 4.8 TB.
If you want to connect more than 16 disks, you use the optional DS6000 expansion
enclosures (Model 1750-EX1) that allow a maximum of 224 DDMs per storage
system and provide a maximum storage capability of 67 TB.
The DS6800 measures 5.25-in. high and is available in a 19-in. rack mountable
package with an optional modular expansion enclosure of the same size to add
capacity to help meet your growing business needs.
The DS6000 series addresses business efficiency needs through its heterogeneous
connectivity, high performance and manageability functions, thereby helping to
reduce total cost of ownership.
The DS6000 series offers the following major features:
v PowerPC 750GX processors
v Dual active controllers provide continuous operations through the use of two
v A selection of 2 GB fibre channel (FC) disk drives, including 73 GB, 146 GB, and
v 2 GB fibre channel and FICON host attachments of up to 8 ports, which can be
v Fibre channel arbitrated loop (FC AL) switched device attachment of up to 2 dual
v Storage virtualization
v Battery backed mirrored cache
v Fully redundant power and cooling system
v Disaster Recovery and Copy Service solutions

Overview of the DS6000 series models

The DS6000 series offers a base enclosure model with storage and optional
expansion enclosures.
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TotalStorage DS6000 series is a member of the family of DS products
processors that form a pair to back up the other
300 GB sizes with speeds of 10 000 or 15 000 revolutions per minute (RPM)
configured with an intermix of Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) and FICON
loops
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