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IBM System Storage N series
IBM System Storage N series
* N6000 and N7000 series Gateways are available ordered through a gateway feature code (9551).
**Systems are based on dual clustered storage controllers. Divide all numbers by one-half if a single storage controller system is ordered.
N3000 Express series N6000 series* N7000 series*
N3300 Express N3400 Express N3600 Express N6040 N6060 N6070 N7900
Model
2859-A10 (single)
2859-A20 (clustered)
2859-A11 (single)
2859-A21 (clustered)
2862-A20 (clustered) 2858-A10 (single)
2858-A20 (clustered)
2858-A22 (clustered) 2858-A21 (clustered) 2867-A21 (clustered)
Maximum raw capacity
68 TB 136 TB 104 TB 420 TB 672 TB 840 TB 1176 TB
Integrated Onboard
I/O ports**
Up to four (4) 4 Gbps Fibre
Channel ports
Up to four (4) 1 GbE ports
Up to four (4) 4 Gbps Fibre
Channel ports
Up to eight (8) 1 GbE ports
Up to two (2) SAS ports
Up to four (4) 4 Gbps Fibre
Channel ports
Up to four (4) 1 GbE ports
Eight 4 Gbps FC
Four 1 Gbps Ethernet
Eight 4 Gbps FC
Four 1 Gbps Ethernet
Eight 4 Gbps FC
Four1 Gbps Ethernet
Sixteen 4 Gbps FC
Twelve 1 Gbps Ethernet
PCI expansion slots for
additional FC HBAs or
GbE NIC cards**
0 0 2 8 8 8 16
NVRAM**
256 MB 256 MB 512 MB 1GB 4 GB 4GB 1 GB
Random Access
Memory**
2 GB 2 GB 4 GB 8 GB 16 GB 32 GB 64 GB
All N series systems provide the following features:
Storage
controllers/filers
Active/Active with automatic failover to secondary system
Fibre channel
(FC) external
disk drive
support
4-Gbps Fibre Channel: 300 GB, 450 GB, 600 GB, 15,000 rpm
2-Gbps Fibre Channel: 300 GB, 450 GB, 600 GB, 15,000 rpm
SATA external
disk drive
support
SATA: 500 GB, 7,200 rpm, 1 TB, 2 TB
SAS external drive support for N3400, N3600, N6000 and N7000;
SAS: 300 GB, 450 GB, 600 GB, 15,000 rpm
SAS disk drive
support (N3300,
N3400, N3600)
300 GB 15K, 450 GB 15K, 600 GB
Host connectiv-
ity and platform
support
The N series systems support a multitude of host attachment capabilities via FCP, CIFS, NFS and iSCSI protocols.
See product “N series Interoperability Matrix” for more information
Network proto-
col support
NFS V2/V3/V4 over UDP or TCP, PCNFSD V1/V2 for (PC) NFS client authentication, Microsoft CIFS, iSCSI, FCP, VLD,
HTTP 1.0, HTTP 1.1 Virtual Host
Other protocol
support
SNMP, NDMP, LDAP, NIS, DNS
Operating
system
Data ONTAP
Data protection
Double Parity RAID, Snapshot, SnapRestore, SnapMirror, SyncMirror, SnapVault, Open System Snap Vault,
MetroCluster, Protection Manager
Redundancy/
high availability
CompactFlash dual redundant hot-plug integrated cooling fans, hot-swappable auto-ranging power supplies, clustered
filers, hot-swappable disk bays
Backup
External tape (SCSI or Fibre Channel)
RAID levels
RAID 4, RAID-DP (double parity)
System
management/
Storage
management
FilerView, SecureAdmin, SNMP, Operations Manager, Protection Manager, Industry-standard NDMP protocols
Standard
software
features
Snapshot, FlexVol, FlexShare, Integrated Automatic RAID Manager, Fast Boot, NIS, DNS, SNMP, FilerView,
NDMP, LDAP, iSCSI, AutoSupport, SyncMirror, SnapMover, FTP protocol feature, SecureAdmin, Disk Sanitization,
System Manager
Optional
software
features
CIFS protocol, Clustered Failover, Data ONTAP, Disk Sanitization. FCP protocol, FlexCache, FlexClone, FlexShare,
FlexScale, FlexVol, FTP protocol, HTTP protocol, iSCSI protocol, MetroCluster, MultiStore, NDMP protocol,
NearStore® (near-line), NFS protocol, Open Systems SnapVault (OSSV), Operations Manager Core and SRM
License, Protection Manager, Provisioning Manager, System Manager, RAID 4, RAID-DP, SecureAdmin, Single
Mailbox Recovery for Exchange (SMBR), SnapDrive, SnapLock Enterprise, SnapManager for Exchange,
SnapManager for Oracle, SnapManager for SAP SnapManager for SQL Server, SnapManager for Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server, SnapManager for Hyper-V, SnapMirror, SnapMover, SnapRestore, Snapshot, SnapValidator,
SnapVault, SyncMirror, Performance Acceleration Module, N3000 Software Packs, N6000 Software Bundles and
N7000 High Performance Bundle
All N series systems provide the following features: