IBM TotalStorage FAStT600 Model 6LX Storage Server (Rack PDU Line Cord 24P8956 User Manual
Product codes
24P8956
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.
Scalability throughout the series
Because the DS4300 is highly scalable,
up to 112 fibre channel or 112 Serial
ATA disk drives with the turbo option, it
can be upgraded from a workgroup
SAN to an enterprise network 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 4.2TB of Fibre Channel (FC) physical
disk storage. The DS4300 offers up to
16.8TB of FC physical disk storage
capacity with the attachment of three
DS4000 EXP700s. The DS4300 Turbo
offers up to 33.6TB of fibre channel
physical disk storage capacity with the
attachment of seven DS4000 EXP700s
or DS4000 EXP710s. Both the DS4300
and DS4300 Turbo offer up to 28TB of
Serial ATA physical disk storage capac-
ity with the attachment of eight DS4000
EXP100s. This server is designed to
help consolidate direct-attached stor-
age into a centrally managed, shared or
storage area network (SAN) environ-
ment 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, help-
ing to make server clustering more cost
effective. The DS4300 single controller
offers 4.2TB 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,
Windows Server™ 2003, Windows
2000 Server and Windows 2000
Advance Server operating system and
optional support for AIX® (except single
controller), Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Novell
NetWare and Linux® operating sys-
tems. The DS4300 is designed to inter-
operate with IBM
_`® pSeries®
and xSeries® servers as well as with
Intel® processor-based and UNIX®
operating system-based servers. To
help make integration easy, IBM tests
the DS4300 for interoperability with IBM
servers, as well as with many other
brands of servers and switches.