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Data Sheet
System Storage
IBM Systems and Technology
Now you can address even more granular and specific require-
ments for your application needs, whether they include security
for data at rest, leading performance or energy efficiency. This
exciting capability maximizes storage density and provides a
more efficient use of enclosures when implementing a tiered
storage solution.
Centralizes storage device management
IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center for Disk Select
V4.2.2 is designed to provide storage device configuration,
performance monitoring and management of SAN-attached
devices from a single console. In addition, it includes perfor-
mance-monitoring capabilities for the DS3500 Express.
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Select V4.2.2
provides the following features:
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Continuous real-time monitoring and fault identification to
improve SAN availability
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Performance reporting across multiple arrays from a single
console
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Monitoring of metrics such as throughput, I/O, data rates and
cache use
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Reception of timely alerts that can enable event action based
on policies when thresholds are exceeded
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Improved storage ROI by helping to keep SANs up and
running
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Reduced storage administration costs by simplifying the man-
agement of complex SANs
Handles key applications and workloads
The DS3500 Express offers these additional capabilities:
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Consolidation and virtualization: Balanced performance, low-
cost consolidation and unparalleled configuration flexibility
make the DS3500 Express ideally suited for smaller consoli-
dation and virtualization implementations in which an
individual storage system supports diverse workloads and
application requirements.
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Departmental and remote sites: The DS3500 Express offers
the right amount of performance, simplicity and functionality
that a part-time administrator can use at a price that won’t
break an organization’s budget, allowing multiple sites to be
self-sufficient.
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Transactional workloads: Efficient IOPS make the
DS3500 Express well suited for transactional workloads—
including online transaction processing, databases and
email—that are the core of every organization’s critical
applications.
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Data warehousing: Solid throughput, 6 Gbps SAS, 8 Gbps
Fibre Channel and 10 Gbps iSCSI interfaces make the
DS3500 Express well suited for data-warehousing environ-
ments in which an individual storage system must process
large amounts of data.
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Business-critical applications: With bullet-proof reliability,
support for SED drives and exceptional uptime, the
DS3500 Express supports business-critical applications where
data must be protected and available when needed.
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Secondary storage: Support for redundant array of indepen-
dent disks (RAID) 6, DDP and native language SAS drives
means the DS3500 Express can store large amounts of data
cost effectively, with confidence that it is fully protected.
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Clustered topologies: SAS-based shared storage and Fibre
Channel or iSCSI SAN implementations are ideal for
clustering solutions such as Microsoft Cluster Server and
Oracle Real Application Clusters when transitioning from a
direct-attached storage implementation.
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Streaming video: Large-block I/O applications, such as
world-class broadcasting, rich-media storage networks,
content creation, modeling and publishing benefit from the
additional bandwidth that the DS3500 Express series offers.
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Data mining: With Fibre Channel and SAS host connectivity,
organizations can accelerate and scale simulation, visualiza-
tion, modeling and rendering applications easily to accelerate
large dataset I/O rates, as well as cost-effectively scale and
share information across the organization for high-level
collaboration.