Datasheet

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 44.8TB
of Serial ATA physical disk storage
capacity with the attachment of eight
DS4000 EXP100s. This server is
designed to help consolidate direct-
attached storage into a centrally man-
aged, shared or storage area network
(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 elimi-
nated, helping 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,
VMWare, 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® 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.
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 and DS4000 EXP710
disk enclosures and include many of
the same high-performance software
and redundant hardware design fea-
tures 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