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IBM System Storage (SAN and NAS)
IBM Disk Systems
IBM XIV Storage System
The IBM® XIV® Storage System is a proven, high-end disk
storage series designed to address storage challenges across the application
spectrum, including for virtualization, email, database, analytics and data
protection solutions. The XIV series delivers consistent high performance and
high reliability at tier 2 costs for even the most demanding workloads, using
massive parallelism to allocate system resources evenly at all times and scale
seamlessly without manual tuning. Its virtualized design and customer-acclaimed
ease of management dramatically reduce administrative overhead and bring
optimization to virtualized server environments.
- XIV
Gen3: From 55 to 161 TB usable per frame;
Second-generation XIV: From 27 to 161 TB usable per frame
- Consistent
high performance for all workloads without manual tuning: XIV Gen3 is designed
for ultra-high performance with an InfiniBand backplane and other
state-of-the-art hardware, including eight Gbps FC ports for very high-speed
data transfer; second-generation XIV meets most workload needs with excellent
price-performance value
- Active-active
N+1 redundancy of all system components, rapid disk rebuild, self-healing
- Rich
features set comes standard with software
- XIV can offer
dramatic savings through ease of management, virtualization, and efficiencies
in capacity, power, and space
IBM XIV is proven, high-end disk storage, designed for
growth with unmatched ease of use. IBM XIV eliminates the complexity of managing
enterprise storage. It never compromises performance for reliability, providing
consistent high performance without manual tuning for even the most demanding
application workloads, while keeping TCO incredibly low.* Its grid
architecture delivers virtual storage that optimizes performance in virtualized
environments and integrates seamlessly with cloud technologies to give you the
agility you need to handle growth.
Now, a great storage system gets even better with a
third-generation model designed for the most demanding performance needs. IBM
XIV Gen3 harnesses the same proven XIV architecture and features
state-of-the-art hardware to boost throughput by up to a factor of four,
dramatically increasing performance.
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e XIV Storage System has met with rapid market success
with more than four thousand installations in diverse industries worldwide,
including financial services, healthcare, energy, education and manufacturing.
IBM XIV integrates easily with virtualization, email, database, analytics and
data protection solutions from Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle, SAS, VMware,
Hyper-V, and Symantec. It is offered in two models: the standard model, for
meeting most application needs with excellent price-to-performance benefits,
and XIV Gen3, for ultra-high performance.Power
of the XIV Architecture Unleashed. The XIV Gen3 model exemplifies the XIV
series’ evolutionary capability: each hardware component has been upgraded
with the latest technologies, while the core of the architecture remains
intact. The XIV Gen3 model gives applications a tremendous performance boost,
helping customers meet increasing demands with fewer servers and networks.
XIV Storage System series—Common features:
- Self-tunes and delivers consistently high
performance with automated balanced data placement across all key system
resources, eliminating hot spots
- Provides unprecedented data protection and
availability through active-active N+1 redundancy of system components and
rapid self-healing (< 60 minutes for 2 TB drives)
- Enables unmatched ease of management through
automated tasks and an intuitive user interface
- Promotes low total cost of ownership enabled by
high-density disks and optimal utilization
- Provides seamless and easy to use integrated
application solutions with the leading host platforms and business
applications
XIV Gen3 brings
ultra-performance capabilities to the XIV series by providing:
- Up to 4 times the throughput,
cutting time and boosting performance for business intelligence, archiving
and other extremely demanding applications
- Up to 3 times speedier response time,
enabling faster transaction processing and greater scalability with OLTP,
databases and email applications
- Power to serve even more applications from
a single system with a prodigious hardware upgrade that includes
InfiniBand inter-module connect, larger cache, faster disk controllers,
increased processing power, and more FC and iSCSI connectivity
- Option for future upgradability to SSD
Caching* for breakthrough SSD performance levels at a fraction of
typical SSD storage costs, with very high density drives for even lower TCO
IBM XIV Storage System is offered
in two models, both based on the same proven XIV architecture and all-inclusive
pricing approach:
- IBM XIV features powerful storage
for most application needs, with excellent price-to-performance advantages.
This model offers customer-acclaimed value in handling a mix of diverse
workloads at low TCO.
- IBM XIV Gen3 features
state-of-the-art hardware that can do more, faster. Rely on it for your
ultra-demanding performance objectives, including business intelligence,
archiving, large email setups, data warehousing, and OLTP workloads, as well
as ever-changing virtualized and cloud environments.
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A revolutionary, high-end, disk storage
system with a virtualized grid architecture designed to eliminate
the complexity of storage administration and make managing storage easy
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High reliability and data
availability via active-active N+1 redundancy of all key
components, partition mirroring, unique self-healing, rapid rebuild times,
and non-disruptive upgrades
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Unmatched total cost of ownership
and environment-friendly attributes, with dramatic efficiencies
in capacity, power, and space
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Enterprise-level, consistent
performance through massive parallelism, disk utilization and
unique caching mechanisms
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Open and integrated system,
offering strong interoperability with open system servers
and technologies
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Transparent, no-impact scalability,
in on-demand increments, without the need for manual data migration or
performance tuning, providing automatic online capacity growth
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Rich function set standard with the
system software includes snapshots, thin provisioning, data
migration, asynchronous and synchronous mirroring and an intuitive
management console
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Next-generation storage system helps enable growth without complexity
The IBM XIV® Storage System is a
next-generation high-end open disk storage system. An integral part of IBM’s
broad spectrum of system storage offerings, the XIV system has an innovative
grid architecture designed to deliver the highest levels of reliability,
performance, scalability and functionality at low overall cost, while
eliminating complexity and providing unprecedented ease of management.
Designed for exceptionally low Total Cost of
Ownership, the XIV system aims to tackle almost every aspect related to owning,
operating and maintaining a storage system, including backup and restore,
acquisition, environmentals, administration and downtime cost factors.
The XIV system is designed to deliver
consistently high performance through the elimination of hot spots and full
exploitation of all key system resources. Its ground-breaking architecture
delivers these performance levels while innovatively leveraging the capacity and
cost benefits of large SATA drives.
Outstanding availability and reliability are
delivered through a revolutionary redundancy scheme, enabling automated self
healing with exceptionally fast rebuild times. Software functionality including
snapshotting, thin provisioning and space reclamation, and remote mirroring can
help ease provisioning and protect business data from unexpected outages. IBM
XIV can help customers deploy an information infrastructure that is reliable,
versatile and available while offering improvements in storage management,
provisioning and improved asset utilization.
Data Sheet
- Provides
unprecedented data protection and availability through active-active N+1
redundancy of system components
- Automatically
self-tunes and delivers consistently high performance with unique,
balanced data placement across all key system resources, eliminating hot
spots on disks
- Rapidly
self-heals, rebuilding data after a 1 TB disk drive failure in an average
of 30 minutes or less for most workloads
- Promotes low
total cost of ownership, enabled by high-density disks and optimal
capacity use
- Enables
exceptional ease of management through an intuitive user interface that
simplifies configuration
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- Up to 21 CPUs
- Up to 72 Gbps
internal switching capacity
- Up to 120 GB
cache memory
- Up to 240 Gbps
cache to disk bandwidth
- Up to 180 SATA
7200 RPM disks, 1 TB or 2 TB
- Up to 24 Fiber
Channel ports offering 4 Gbps, 2 Gbps or 1 Gbps support
- Up to 6 iSCSI
ports offering iSCSI over Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
- Redundant power
feed with input voltage from 180 to 264 V ac
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Distributed, massively paralleled architecture |
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- Offers high performance:
Full exploitation of system resources including disks, central processing
units (CPUs) and switches combined with unique caching algorithms can
translate into excellent performance.
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storage management |
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Simplifies the complexity of storage management through a highly
intuitive GUI, automated load balancing and optimized capacity use that
reduces the amount of storage to be managed
- Enables
management of up to 64 systems from a single XIV user console
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Active-Active with N+1 redundancy of all system components |
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Offers high reliability: Systems components are protected
in an N+1 active-active design to help ensure the highest levels of
reliability and availability; provides redundancy of all system components
at hardware and software levels, including: |
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- UPS protection of disk, cache, and
electronics, redundant power supply and fans
- Concurrent multi-path host connectivity
- Remote mirroring at virtually unlimited
distances
- Non-disruptive code load
- Proactive error detection and self
healing
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Rapid self healing |
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- Helps reduce risk of impact from
disk failure: The system’s exceptionally short rebuild process
allows a 1 TB disk drive to be re-built in 30 minutes or less, helping to
reduce the chance of a second disk failure during the critical time of the
rebuild process
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Snapshots |
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- Provides near-instantaneous
snapshots: The system’s innovative architecture enables snapshot
copies of data to be created and made available in sub-second time
- Features minimal capacity
overhead: Snapshot copies are differential and require capacity
only to store changes in data
- Provides thousands of
differential snapshots: A true solution for multi-generation
logical backup, with virtually no impact to system performance
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Remote mirroring |
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- Helps protect data against site
failure: Asynchronous and synchronous remote mirroring can
provide business continuity through protection against primary site
outages, disasters and site failures. XIV asynchronous mirroring is
flexible and can be automatic, based on a user-configurable schedule or
manual command. Its flexibility extends to many parameters, including
multiple consistency groups, targets and mirrored pairs. For both kinds of
replication, a snapshot mirror function enables copying of local snapshots
to a remote site; this is particularly important for
application-consistent snapshots.
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| Thin
provisioning |
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- Facilitates reduced storage
costs: Thin provisioning allows logical volumes to exceed
physical capacity, while the latter only need be large enough to contain
the data actually written; this flexibility can offer dramatic savings in
storage, power, and space costs
- Helps provide simplified
provisioning and space reclamation, which can ease the management
of capacity allocation for application workload. Using XIV system
management tools, administrators can easily zero out space no longer in
use; the system then releases that space into the general pool, allowing
its reuse. Instant space reclamation is also enabled for supported
applications which offer thin reclamation.
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migration |
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- Allows the migration of volumes
from current-generation systems to the IBM XIV Storage System, copying the
information while applications are online
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host and application interoperability |
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- Supports a wide variety
of hosts, operating systems, applications and middleware
- Special affinity for virtualized
environments, including VMware with XIV support for VMware
vSphere, vCenter and vCenter Site Recovery Manager.
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Native concurrent multi-path support |
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- Helps provide optimized,
reliable integration with the host operating system
- Provides cost-effective
connectivity (no charge)
- Helps prevent delays
while awaiting third-party device drivers
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Storage infrastructure optimization |
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- Provides IBM Tivoli®
FlashCopy® Manager support,
facilitating automated, application-aware management of snapshots—helping
alleviate scripting tasks, improve service levels, enhance data protection
and recoverability and simplify snapshot management, especially in complex
heterogeneous storage environments.
- Leverages IBM Tivoli Storage
Productivity Center support including TPC for Disk and TPC
Standard Edition, delivering full performance monitoring, analysis,
capacity planning and reporting.
- Provides Tivoli Storage Manager
(TSM) Copy Services 6 for Advanced Copy Services support, to
enhance copy, backup and restore operations for Microsoft® Windows® and
IBM AIX® applications.
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Disks |
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SATA disk drives
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7,200 RPM supported
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Capacity: 1 TB or 2 TB
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Physical Specifications |
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Dimensions: Height: 78.4 in/199.1 cm; Width: 23.6
in/60 cm; Depth: 45 in/114.2 cm
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Maximum weight: 1,949 lb/884 kg
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Clearance: Front: 47 in/120 cm; Rear: 39.4 in/100 cm
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Power |
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Input voltage: Nominal, 200 - 240 V ac, at 60 A or 30
A (+/- 10%)
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Redundant power feed
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Single-phase power feed
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Operating Environment |
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Temperature: 10 - 35° C
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Altitude: up to 7,000 ft/2,134 m
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Humidity: 25 - 80%, noncondensing
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Capacity and Resources (per module) |
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Cache-to-disk bandwidth: 240 Gbps
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# Disks |
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Usable capacity*
1TB/ 2TB |
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Conne- ctivity |
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Power usage
1TB/ 2TB |
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Internal (grid) switching (GBps) |
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# CPUs |
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Memory (GB) |
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FC ports |
iSCSI ports |
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kVA (peak) |
kVA (idle) |
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30 |
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Dual ** |
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72 |
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3.4/3.1 |
2.9/2.8 |
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30 |
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9 |
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48/96 |
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108 |
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43/87 |
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16 |
4 |
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5.0/4.5 |
4.2/4.0 |
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48 |
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15 |
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72/144 |
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120 |
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50/102 |
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16 |
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5.5/4.9 |
4.7/4.4 |
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52 |
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16 |
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80/160 |
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132 |
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54/111 |
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16 |
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6.1/5.4 |
5.2/4.7 |
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56 |
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17 |
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88/176 |
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144 |
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61/125 |
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20 |
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6.7/5.8 |
5.7/5.1 |
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96/192 |
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66/134 |
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104/208 |
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168 |
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73/149 |
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6.7/5.9 |
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112/224 |
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180 |
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79/161 |
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7.2/6.2 |
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Data Protection |
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Active-active with N+1 redundancy on disks, modules,
switches and UPS units
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Non-disruptive hardware and firmware upgrades
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Remote synchronous and asynchronous mirroring and
flexible restore
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Differential snapshots with near-zero performance
overhead
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Thousands of snapshots
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Instant create, modify, restore
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Writable snapshots
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“Snap on snap”
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Self-healing: Rapid rebuild time after disk and module
failure
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All functionality included with system software |
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LDAP authentication
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Thin provisioning (including support for thin
reclamation)
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Data migration
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Storage management
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Native multi-path support
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Support for Tivoli® FlashCopy® Manager Tivoli
Productivity Center and Tivoli Storage Management
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Host Connectivity |
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Fibre Channel rates: 1 Gbps, 2 Gbps, 4 Gbps
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iSCSI over Gigabit Ethernet
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SCSI-3 protocol for both FC and iSCSI
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