IBM FASTT 600 PACKAGE 2 25R0087 User Manual
Product codes
25R0087
Part of the DS4000 Series
The DS4300 is part of the DS4000
series, which uses common storage
management software and expansion
enclosures. Dual controller models are
designed to be compatible with existing
DS4000 EXP700 disk enclosures
and includes many of the same high-
performance software and redundant
hardware design features as other
DS4000 series systems.
The DS4300 dual controller models can
also be used with the DS4000 EXP100
Serial ATA disk drive storage unit. This
helps address the requirements of vari-
ous fixed content and data reference
applications which require large
amounts of storage capacity but
do not have the high utilization and
access characteristics satisfied by
DS4000 EXP700 and DS4000 EXP710
Fibre Channel disk drive storage.
the performance and diagnostic advan-
tages of Fibre Channel fabric. A great
advantage of the DS4000 EXP710 is a
significant reduction in the number of
Fibre Channel nodes on the drive loops.
The DS4000 EXP710 has far fewer
nodes on the drive loop than the
DS4000 EXP700.
The DS4300 single controller offers up
to 2TB of Fibre Channel (FC) physical
disk storage. The DS4300 offers up to
8.2TB of FC physical disk storage
capacity with the DS4000 EXP700. The
DS4300 Turbo offers up to 16.4TB of
fibre channel physical disk storage
capacity with the DS4000 EXP700 or
the DS4000 EXP710. Both the DS4300
and DS4300 Turbo offer up to 28TB of
Serial ATA physical disk storage capac-
ity with the DS4000 EXP100. This
server is designed to help consolidate
direct-attached storage into a centrally
managed, shared or storage area net-
work (SAN) environment using fibre
channel disk drives and the DS4000
EXP700 that attaches to the DS4300,
and the DS4000 EXP700 or DS4000
EXP710 with the DS4300 with Turbo
feature. With built-in support for four
Fibre Channel-attached servers, the
need for additional switches is reduced
or eliminated, helping to make server
clustering more cost effective. The
DS4300 single controller offers 2TB of
fibre channel physical disk storage for
entry-level solutions.
The DS4300 is well-suited for cost-
conscious workgroup SANs as well
as small businesses and data centers.
Designed for open systems environ-
ments, this storage system helps
provide heterogeneous platform sup-
port by including failover drivers for
the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 oper-
ating system and optional support for
AIX® (except single controller), Sun
Solaris, HP-UX, Novell NetWare and
Linux® operating systems. The
DS4300 is designed to interoperate
with IBM
_`® pSeries® and
xSeries® servers as well as with Intel®
processor-based and UNIX®-based
servers. To help make integration easy,
IBM tests the DS4300 for interoperabil-
ity with IBM servers, as well as with
many other brands of servers and
switches.