IBM FASTT 600 PACKAGE 1 25R0086 User Manual
Product codes
25R0086
IBM TotalStorage DS4300
Scalable, high-performance storage for on demand computing
environments
environments
IBM TotalStorage DS4300
Highlights
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Designed to deliver high per-
formance of up to 768MB/sec
throughput with turbo option
1
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Supports up to 112 hard drives
and scales up to 16.4TB with
high performance 2Gb FC disks
with the DS4300 Turbo
2
, or
28TB with Serial ATA disks with
DS4300 and DS4300 Turbo.
Supports up to 14 hard drives
and scales to 2TB with DS4300
single controller
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Includes IBM® TotalStorage®
DS4000 Storage Manager to
help centrally manage the
DS4000 series (formerly the
FAStT Storage Servers)
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Designed to help facilitate stor-
age consolidation in storage
area network (SAN), network
attached storage (NAS) and
direct-attach environments
Wide range of storage consolidation and
clustering applications
The IBM® TotalStorage® DS4300 (for-
merly FAStT600 Storage Server) is
designed to be an affordable, scalable
storage server for storage consolidation
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
storage 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 switched disk
expansion unit has an ESM-imbedded
Fibre Channel “loop switch.” The loop
switch creates what is essentially point-
to-point Fibre Channel communication,
allowing the ESMs and drives to oper-
ate as though they were on a private
Fibre Channel arbitrated loop, but with
(formerly IBM TotalStorage FAStT600)