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New
Entry Point
Unified
Family
New Standard in
Pricing and
Packaging
Foundation New Standard in Functionality,
Performance, TCO
EXP400
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DS300/DS400 DS4000 DS6000 ESS 750 / 800 DS8000
Common management platform
Common suite of copy services
Virtualization
Compelling price points
Industry leading service and support
Enterprise Storage Continuum
IBM TotalStorage and System Storage Family innovations are designed to help you:
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Simplify the underlying IT infrastructure of storage and its management to lower cost and complexity while increasing the ability to respond to changing needs.
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Maintain business continuity , security and data durability.
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Efficiently manage information throughout its lifecycle , relative to its business value.
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Fully-featured series of solutions designed to address a wide range of storage needs
 From entry-level to enterprise
 From performance-oriented to capacity-oriented applications
 From direct-attach to SAN-attach
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DS4000 series benefits
 Common management interface and functionality across all products and platforms
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Performance optimized for open systems
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FC and SATA offerings that provide flexible, cost-effective tiered storage solutions
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Industry unique dynamic capabilities and intuitive GUI simplify storage administration
 High availability features designed to protect data and support data accessibility
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This table represents general positioning and not technical capabilities
DS4800
DS4700
DS4500
DS4100
DS4300
DS4200
Entry-level Midrange
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Fully-featured disk system targeted for entry-level and secondary storage requirements
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Designed to deliver high-end functionality at an attractive cost-per-gigabyte
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Four auto-negotiating 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces
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Support for new and existing infrastructures helps provide backward and forward investment protection
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Affordable entry point offers dual-active controllers and up to
16 SATA drives (8 TB) in 3U enclosure
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Supports online expansion up to 112 SATA drives
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Managed by powerful / intuitive DS4000 Storage Manager software
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Fully-integrated FlashCopy, VolumeCopy, Enhanced Remote Mirroring
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Designed to meet RoHS directive
 http://www.ibm.com/ibm/environment/products/rohs.shtml
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Feature enhancements to prior generation; (DS4100)
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Expanded host ports (four vs. two)
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Expanded drive ports (four vs. two)
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Denser cache footprint of 2 GB (vs. 512 MB)
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End-to-end 4 Gbps capable
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Switched loop architecture
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16-slot switched 4 Gbps drive enclosures
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Higher performance over DS4100
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Higher capacity with 500 GB SATA disk drives
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Enhanced Value Disk Drive Module (EV-DDM)
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Supports attachment of DS4000 EXP420 storage expansion units
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SMB entry-level, Intel-server environments
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Affordable entry point that delivers 4 Gbps connectivity, ultra-reliable architecture and high-end functionality at an attractive cost-per-gigabyte
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Secondary storage requirements
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Fully-featured software combined with high-capacity, low-cost SATA drives maximizes cost per GB without sacrificing functionality
 Designed for:
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Disk-to-disk backup / restore
• Shorter backup time / higher application availability
• Spinning archive enables faster restores
• Improved backup / restore reliability
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Retention managed data / fixed content
• Medical imaging, object folders, historical reports
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Disaster recovery
• Restoration source of archived information
• Hot site storage of “like” data from primary site
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Oil and gas / seismic processing
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Entry-level storage is an emerging opportunity for SATA due to its common requirements with secondary storage
Typical applications
Requirement
IOPS performance
MB/s performance
Time to data
Media reliability
Uptime
Price
OLTP, databases, ERP, email
Primary
Highest
Highest
Immediate
Highest
24/7
Higher is OK
Retention managed data, fixed content,
D2D backup
Secondary
Minimal
High
~ Immediate
Good
< 24/7 OK
Low cost-per GB
1 st external RAID
File / print server
Entry-level
Minimal
Minimal
~ Immediate
Good
< 24/7 OK
Lowest
Primary media FC disk SATA disk SATA disk
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Throughput
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Sequential, large-block transfers
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Video servers, rich media, seismic processing, HPC
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Key drive-based performance enablers:
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Data transfer rate, maximum I/O transfer size, command queuing
IOPS
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Random, small-block transfers
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OLTP, databases, Exchange
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Majority of enterprise applications
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Key drive-based performance enablers:
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Seek time, latency, rotational velocity, command queuing, number of drives
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Best served by FC drives
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OLTP
Data warehouse
System (SCP)
File serving
Medical imaging
Web / Internet
Multimedia / video
Document imaging
CAD/CAM
Backup / recovery
Read intensive
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Write intensive
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I/O intensive
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Throughput intensive
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Random access
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Sequential access
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Option for SATA drives
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SATA is a good fit for most applications requiring throughput
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Exceptional performance value for entry-level / secondary storage
Results in MB/s
Drive
Type
D S 4 8 0 0
Mod. 88, 84, 82
Sustained throughput
– cache reads
--1,724
1,680 FC
Sustained throughput
– disk read
SATA
FC
Sustained throughput
– disk write (CMD)
SATA
1,625
1,325
1,200
72 4Gb FC
Drives used in testing
FC
SATA 64 SATA II
DS4800
Mod. 80
1,326
1,275
1,275
975
920
72 4Gb FC
64 SATA II
800
800
800
625
635
36 2Gb FC
72 SATA I
D S 4 5 0 0
D S 4 7 0 0
Mod. 72, 72
1,550
990
990
850
690
36 4Gb FC
36 SATA II
D S 4 3 0 0
800
400
395
315
310
36 2Gb FC
36 SATA I
D S 4 2 0 0
1,550
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990
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690
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36 SATA II
D S 4 1 0 0
800
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493
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425
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28 SATA I
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Note: Results as of 6-26-2006. Source of information from Engenio and not confirmed by IBM. Performance results achieved under ideal circumstances in a benchmark test environment. Actual customer results will vary based on configuration and infrastructure components.
The number of drives used for MB/s performance does not reflect an optimized test config. The number of drives required could be lower/higher.
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SATA is not a good fit for applications requiring adequate IOPS
Results in IOPS
Drive
Type
D S 4 8 0 0
Mod. 88, 84, 82
Sustained throughput
– cache reads
--575,000
FC
Sustained throughput
– disk read
SATA
86,000
22,000
22,000 FC
Sustained throughput
– disk write (CMD)
SATA
FC
3,500
224 4Gb FC
Drives used in testing
SATA 224 SATA II
DS4800
Mod. 80
375,000
62,000
16,000
16,000
2,500
224 4Gb FC
224 SATA II
D S 4 5 0 0
148,000
53,200
18,900
10,900
4,000
140 2 Gb FC
224 SATA I
D S 4 7 0 0
Mod. 72, 72
121,500
44,500
11,200
9,000
1,800
112 4Gb FC
112 SATA II
D S 4 3 0 0
77,000
25,000
9,800
5,200
2,000
64 2Gb FC
112 SATA I
D S 4 2 0 0 D S 4 1 0 0
121,500
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11,200
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1,800
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112 SATA II
76,000
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10,000
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2,000
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112 SATA I
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Note: Results as of 6-26-2006. Source of information from Engenio and not confirmed by IBM. Performance results achieved under ideal circumstances in a benchmark test environment. Actual customer results will vary based on configuration and infrastructure components.
Drives were “short-stroked” to optimized for IOPs performance. Real-life may take more drives to achieve the numbers listed..
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Dual-active 4 Gbps RAID controllers
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2 GB (1 GB per controller) of battery-backed cache
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Four 4 Gbps FC interfaces for host/SAN connectivity
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Auto-negotiate 4, 2 and 1 Gbps link speeds
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Four 4 Gbps FC expansion drive loops
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Max of 112 SATA drives with 6 EXP420 expansion units
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1 to 3 trays requires an expansion license
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4 to 6 trays requires and expansion license
Power/cooling
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Two Ethernet connections
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One for customer, one for support/service personnel
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Up to 16 SATA II drives
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500 GB 7.2K RPM (EV-DDM)
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Redundant, hot-swappable CRUs
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3 year 9x5 next business day warranty
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Upgradeable to 24x7 four hour response
Controllers
SATA II drives
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Expansion Unit
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Up to 16 SATA II drives
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500 GB 7.2K RPM (EV-DDM)
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4 Gbps ESMs
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High-speed, low-latency interconnect from controllers to drives
 Dual-active drive channels
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Redundant access to every drive
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Switched architecture
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Drive isolation, better diagnostics
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Higher performance, lower latency
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SATA Interface Card
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Provide single-ported SATA drives with dual-active 4 Gbps FC ports
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DDM-level FC emulation enables SATA drives to plug into 4 Gbps FC mid-plane
 Hot-swappable CRUs
 Redundant pathing
Power/cooling
ESMs
SATA II drives
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Requires version 9.16 (firmware 6.16)
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Same functionality as rest of DS4000 family
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Centralized administration
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Online configuration, reconfiguration, expansion, tuning and maintenance
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2 partitions standard
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Upgrade to 4, 8, 16, 64
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Optional FlashCopy ® ,
Volume Copy,
Enhanced Remote Mirroring
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Drive interfaces Ethernet Host interfaces Battery
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Power/cooling Serial Controller
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Future use Serial Expansion Tray ID
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Power/cooling
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Four 4 Gbps FC ports for host or SAN connections
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Each host port is capable of delivering up to 400 MB/s
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Auto-negotiate to 1, 2, and 4 Gbps speeds
 Seamless addition to current infrastructure that’s “4 Gbps ready”
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Direct host connections Fabric SAN connections
I/O paths to each controller should be established for full redundancy and failover protection
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Four 4 Gbps drive loops support 112 drives
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Each drive port is capable of delivering up to 400 MB/s
 When attaching enclosures, drive loops are configured as redundant pairs utilizing one port from each controller and “top-down / bottom-up” cabling. This helps ensure data access in the event of a path/loop or controller failure.
Loop pair 1 Loop pair 2
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DS4200 with EXP420
Single drive loop pair shown
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Uses 667MHz Xscale processor with embedded XOR engine
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1 GB of cache memory per controller
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128 MB for processor memory. 896 MB for dedicated data cache
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Fully switched drive-side architecture
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Dual-controller system (unless noted)
Host channels
Native host interface link speed
D S 4 8 0 0
8
4 Gbps
D S 4 5 0 0
4
2 Gbps
D S 4 7 0 0
Model 72 / 70
8 / 4
4 Gbps
D S 4 3 0 0
Turbo / Base
4
2 Gbps
Total host channel maximum bandwidth 3,200 MB/s 800 MB/s 3,200 / 1,600 MB/s 800 MB/s
Redundant drive channels
Total drive channel maximum bandwidth
Max drives
Drives supported
Processor
Processor memory
(single controller)
XOR engine
Eight 4 Gbps
3,200 MB/s
224
FC and SATA
Intel Xeon
2.4 GHz
512 MB
Dedicated
Four 2 Gbps
800 MB/s
Four 4 Gbps
1,600 MB/s
224 112
FC and SATA
Intel Pentium III
850 MHz
128 MB
FC and SATA*
Intel xScale
667 MHz
128 MB
Dedicated Integrated
Two 2 Gbps
400 MB/s
112 / 56 FC
112 SATA
FC and SATA
Intel xScale
600 MHz
128 MB
Integrated
Dedicated data cache per dual-controller system
4, 8, or 16 GB 2 GB
D S 4 2 0 0
4
4 Gbps
1,600 MB/s
Four 4 Gbps
1,600 MB/s
112
SATA
Intel xScale
667 MHz
128 MB
Integrated
4 GB / 2 GB
(256 MB for memory)
2 GB / 512 MB
(256 MB for memory)
2 GB
(256 MB for memory)
512 MB
(256 MB for memory)
D S 4 1 0 0
4
2 Gbps
800 MB/s
Two 2 Gbps
400 MB/s
112
SATA
Intel xScale
600 MHz
128 MB
Integrated
* Future release
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High-end
Midrange
Entry-level
DS4800
DS4500
DS4700
DS4300
Turbo
DS4300
Single / Dual
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Highest performance of DS4000 series for business-critical applications
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Data replication is a key piece of the storage strategy
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High performance for price-conscious environments
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Midrange data replication and remote replication sites
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Exceptional performance value for medium-scale configurations
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Midrange data replication and remote replication sites
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Homogeneous workgroup/departmental storage consolidation
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Windows ® , Linux™, NetWare environments
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Low cost, entry-level 2 Gbps external RAID system based on FC disk for SMB
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Designed to offer highly available, reliable storage for SMB applications
DS4200
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Low-cost, entry-level 4 Gbps external RAID storage based on SATA disk for SMB
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Highly reliable storage with robust storage management functionality
DS4100
Single / Dual
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Low-cost, entry-level 2 Gbps external RAID storage based on SATA disk for SMB
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Highly reliable storage with robust storage management functionality
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Feature Code
1814-7VA (AAS)
Country specific
Part Number
18147VH (HVEC)
Country specific
Description
DS4200 Express Model 7V
 DS4200 is an “Express Seller” product only
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DS4200 will be available in SAP only for AG and EMEA and AAS only for AP
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16 disk drives inside controller
 1 – 3 trays requires an expansion license
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4 – 6 trays requires and expansion license
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HVEC ordering ships with 2 partitions
 Optional upgrades to 4, 8, 16 or 64
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Description
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Model 7V - Controller
HBA: FC 4Gbps - PCI-X Single Port
HBA: FC 4Gbps - PCI-X Dual Port
DS4200 500GB SATA EV-DDM
1M Fiber Optic Cable LC-LC
5M Fiber Optic Cable LC-LC
25M Fiber Optic Cable LC-LC
FlashCopy Activation
Volume Copy Activation
FlasCopy/ Volume Copy Activation
Enhanced Remote Mirror Activation
EXP420 Attachment (1-3 EXP Units)
EXP420 Attachment (1-3 EXP Units)
Windows Host Kit
Feature
Code (AAS)
1814-7VA
7324
7325
7380
7381
7600
2105
2106
4612
5601
5605
5625
7321
7323
Linux/Intel Host Kit (RedHat ES, SUSE ELS) 7601
Novell Netware Host Kit 7602
Part Number
(HVEC)
18147VH
39M5894
39M5895
42D0389
39M5696
39M5697
39M5698
41Y0743
41Y0746
41Y0738
41Y0739
39M5954
39M5957
N/A - Included in HVEC models
39M6009
39M6041
Description
VMware ESX Host Kit
AIX Host Kit
SUN Solaris Host Kit
HPUX Host Kit
Linux on Power Host Kit
2 Storage Partitions - Plant
4 Storage Partitions - Plant
8 Storage Partitions - Plant
8751
8752
16 Storage Partitions - Plant 8753
64 Storage Partitions - Plant
2 – 4 Storage Partitions – Field upgrade
8754
8760
2 – 8 Storage Partitions – Field upgrade
4 – 8 Storage Partitions – Field upgrade
8761
8762
4 – 16 Storage Partitions – Field upgrade 8763
8 – 16 Storage Partitions – Field upgrade 8764
8 – 64 Storage Partitions – Field upgrade 8765
Feature
Code (AAS)
7603
7611
7612
7613
7614
8750
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
42D3254
42D3257
42D3260
42D3263
42D3266
42D3272
Part Number
(HVEC)
39M6046
39M6048
41Y5163
41Y0686
42D3252
N/A
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Note: This information is deemed accurate but subject to change without notice
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DS4200 is SATA only and can only expand with EXP420 drive enclosure
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You cannot attach an EXP810 to a DS4200
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EXP420 will only operate behind a DS4200 controller
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You cannot attach a EXP420 to any other DS4000 series product
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Drives from EXP420 will not work in any other DS4000 series product
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DS4200 is not upgradeable to any other type of DS4000 series product
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DS4200 is similar to a DS4700 with regard to architecture and premium features – but no Intermix capability
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DS4200 was designed to be a low-cost entry level SMB system
 Replacing DS4100
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DS4200 will have Storage Manager management software and will be seen as a DS4200 by other DS4000 series products
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DS4200 can be a target device for a DS4800 or DS4700 for DR/BC or secondary storage applications
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