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Product positioning

Jana Jamsek, ATS Europe

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IBM Storage Systems

DS8000 POWER6+ controllers (2-way and 4-way)

8 Gb/s host and device adapters

2.5” Enterprise SAS-2 drives

1056 drives in 3 racks

Maximum 384 GB cache

Total Resiliency

Managing Tiered storage

Connection to IBM i:–Natively –VIOS_NPIV–VIOS vscsi

Copy services– of IBM i entire disk space– of IBM i IASP

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DS8000Appropriate for:Big IBM i wokloads

–Provides excellent performance with IBM iConsolidating storage for many IBM i systems

–Possibility of VIOS-NPIV and virtual FC adapters in IBM i IBM i and other workloads sharing storage Implementing tiered storageBusiness continuity solutions for IBM i

–Including Disaster Recovery solutions–Including BC solutions for many IBM i systems–Supported by PowerHA SystemMirror for i

Unified Business continuity solutions for IBM i and other systems

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DS5000 RAID controllers–Controllers - Custom ASIC with

built-in hardware-assist for RAID

8 Gb and 4 Gb interfaces

Max 64 GB cache

Tired storage

Connection to IBM i:–Natively –VIOS_NPIV–VIOS vscsi

Copy services–of IBM i entire disk space– of IBM i IASP with limitations

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DS5000

Appropriate for:

Midrange and small IBM i workloads

IBM i customers with installed DS6000 may consider to change for DS5000

Customers with simple tiering requirements

Business continuity solutions –Automation may require additional services

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DS3500

RAID controllers

Max 2 GB cache

8 Gb FC interfaces to host

2.5” SAS drives

Small IBM i customers

IBM i in Blade center

Connection to IBM i with VIOS vscsi

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SAN Volume Controller

Virtualization of different Storage systems

2, 4, 6 or 8 node cluster

Up to 192GB cache per cluster

Internal SSD

Connects to IBM i with VIOS vscsi

Copy services supported with PowerHA SystemMirror for i *

Copy services of entire IBM i entire disk space

* Planned GA November 2011

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San Volume ControllerAppropriate for:

Midrange and big IBM i customers

Sharing background storage among IBM i and other systems

Virtualizing heterogenous storage systems for IBM i and other servers

Implementing tiered storage

Business continuity solutions for IBM i –Supported by PowerHA SystemMirror for i *

High availability solution for IBM i disk storage

Unified Business continuity solutions for IBM i and other systems

* Planned GA November 2011

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XIV

Data distribution across all drives

24GB System Cache / Module

Writes completed to two different data modules cache

12x 2TB SAS Drives

Infiniband ports for any to any Interface Module and Data Module connectivity

Connection to IBM i with VIOS vscsi

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XIV

Appropriate for:

Midrange and big IBM i workloads

Experienced excellent performance with IBM i transaction workloads

Archiving data for multiple IBM i systems

Business continuity solutions

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Storwize V7000

Disk drives –SSD, 15 K RPM SAS, 10 K

RPM SAS, nearline

FC, iSCSI host interfaces

Easy Tier

Virtualization

Connects to IBM i with VIOS vscsi

Copy services supported with PowerHA SystemMirror for i *

Copy services of entire IBM i entire disk space

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IBM Storage Systems

Storwize V7000Appropriate for:Midrange to big customersThe customers with performance requirements (?) Implementing tiered storage Sharing storage among multiple IBM i systems Shairng storage among IBM i and other systems Copy services for IBM i business continuity solutions of IASP

–PowerHA SystemMirror for i –ACS

Copy services for business continuity solutions of entire disk space