IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Turbo Bundle 60L, no HDDs 172260L User Manual
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172260L
IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Express Model
A cost-effective, modular architecture to support e-business
on demand environments to grow as demands grow
on demand environments to grow as demands grow
IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Express Model
Highlights
■ Offers optimized configurations
priced attractively for small to
medium-sized businesses
■ Provides flexible upgrades and
scalable options to facilitate
growth with minimal business
disruption
■ Includes IBM TotalStorage®
DS4000 Storage Manager to
help centrally manage the
DS4000 series to enhance scal-
ability, supporting performance
and capacity requirements
■ Designed to help facilitate stor-
age consolidation in storage
area network (SAN), network
attached storage (NAS) and
direct-attach environments
■ Designed to deliver high per-
formance and productivity, up
to 768 MBps throughput with
turbo option
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Wide range of storage consolidation and
clustering applications
The IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Express
is designed to be an affordable, scala-
ble storage server for storage consoli-
dation and clustering applications. Its
modular architecture—which includes
Dynamic Capacity Addition, Dynamic
Volume Expansion and a turbo option—
can support e-business on demand™
environments by helping to enable stor-
age to grow as demands increase.
Autonomic features such as online
firmware upgrades and DS4000 Service
Alert also help enhance the system’s
usability.
The DS4000 EXP710 Express switched
disk expansion unit has an ESM-
embedded Fibre Channel “loop switch.”
The loop switch creates what is essen-
tially point-to-point Fibre Channel com-
munication, allowing the ESMs and