IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Single Controller 6LX 17226LX User Manual
Product codes
17226LX
IBM TotalStorage DS4300
Scalable, high-performance storage for on demand computing
environments
environments
IBM TotalStorage DS4300
Highlights
■ Designed to deliver high per-
formance of up to 768 MBps
throughput with turbo option
1
■ Supports up to 112 hard drives
and scales up to 33.6TB with
high performance 2GB FC disks
with the DS4300 Turbo
2
, or
44.8TB with Serial ATA disks
with DS4300 and DS4300 Turbo.
Supports up to 14 hard drives
and scales to 4.2TB with
DS4300 single controller
■ Includes IBM TotalStorage®
DS4000 Storage Manager to
help centrally manage the
DS4000 series
■ 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 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 an on demand environment by
helping to enable storage to grow as
demands increase. Autonomic features
such as online firmware upgrades and
DS4000 Service Alert and DS4000 Alert
Manager also help enhance the sys-
tem’s usability.
The DS4000 EXP710 switched disk
expansion unit has an ESM-embedded
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