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Ensure business continuance Field tests reveal that N series technology Manage everything with ease
and compliance with its optional software capabilities and efficiency
Disruptions to information access and delivers 99.999% availability.** Using Operations Manager and System
non-compliance with records retention Manager, you can centrally manage
Data ONTAP standard features and
regulations are simply not options in and configure multiple N series systems
optional capabilities that contribute to this
today’s business environments. N series throughout your enterprise. We make it
high level of data availability include:
offers innovative, disaster-tolerant data easy – wizards guide you through the most
protection and recovery features such • SnapMirror common management and configuration
as SnapLock, SnapVault and SnapMirror • Snapshot™ tasks.
technologies. Literally tens of thousands of • FlexClone®
corporate IT departments rely on • Multipath high availability
N series proven SnapMirror disaster • Active-active controller failover
recovery solution to ensure business • RAID-DP®
continuance. • SyncMirror®
objects maintain
FlexClone Instantaneously creates file, LUN and volume clones without Saves you time in testing and development and increases your
requiring additional storage storage capacity
FlexVol Creates flexibly sized LUNs and volumes across a large pool of Ensures that your storage systems are used at maximum efficiency
disks and one or more RAID groups and reduces your hardware investment
Snapshot Makes incremental, data-in-place, point-in-time copies of a LUN or Enables you to create frequent, space efficient backups with no
volume with minimal performance impact disruption to data traffic
SnapRestore® Rapidly restores single files, directories, or entire LUNs and Instantaneously recovers your files, databases, and complete
Backup & Recovery
Protection Manager Backup and replication management software for IBM disk-to-disk Lets you automate data protection, ensuring that you have
environments mistake-free backup
System Manager Provides setup, provisioning and configuration management of a Simplifies out-of-box setup and device management using an
Data ONTAP storage system intuitive Windows based interface
IBM Global Technology Services – benefits such as reduced IT complexity, For more information
Delivering a comprehensive, integrated controlled costs and efficient storage, server and www.netapp.com/ibmnseries
approach to storage and data desktop environments.
IBM’s broad portfolio of technology With IBM GTS services solutions, you gain Technical Support
services, with IBM’s N series and NetApp’s valuable insight into how you are utilizing Online Technical Support
industry-leading storage products, provides existing storage assets, and are provided For online Technical Support for your IBM
comprehensive, innovative infrastructure efficiency recommendations on how and N series product, visit the following web site:
solutions. IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) where to institutionalize best practices across www.ibm.com/storage/support/nas/
solutions help improve alignment of IT assets your enterprise. Combining IBM and NetApp
and resources with your current and future technologies helps maximize the availability, Hardware Service and Support
business goals, providing end to end IT services value, and protection of your information You can receive hardware service through
that address storage and server infrastructure by reducing business risks through secure, IBM Integrated Technology Services. Visit
optimization as well as infrastructure optimization efficient and optimized information infrastructure the following web site for support telephone
for desktop virtualization projects. With management. numbers: www.ibm.com/planetwide/
assessment, planning, design, implementation www.ibm.com/services
and management services, you can anticipate
**as reported by IDC’s report on 5x9’s Availability Study for N series Technology
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System Storage
N series Gateway
IBM Model Numbers N/A N/A N/A 2858-A10(s)* 2858-A22(c)* 2858-A21(c)* 2867-G21(c)
(s-single, c-clustered) 2858-A20(c)* *w/feature code 9551 *w/ feature code 9551 *w/ feature code 9551
*w/ feature code 9551
System Storage
N series
IBM Model Numbers 2859-A10(s) 2859-A11(s) 2862-A20(c) 2858-A10(s) 2858-A22(c) 2858-A21(c) 2867-A21(c)
(s-single, c-clustered) 2859-A20(c) 2859-A21(c) 2858-A20(c)
Processor/Type Intel® 2.2 GHz Intel® 1.6GHz Intel® 2.2 GHz AMD® 2.4GHz AMD® 2.6GHz AMD® 2.6GHz AMD® 2.6GHz
Celeron Dual Core Xeon Celeron Dual Core Dual Core Dual Core Dual Core
Opteron® Opteron® Opteron® Opteron®
Max. Raw Capacity 68TB 136TB 104TB 420TB 672TB 840TB 1176TB
Fibre Channel, 4Gb 4/4 4/4 4/8 8/40 8/40 8/40 16/56
PCI-X/PCI-Express — — 0/2 8 8 8 16
Expansion Slots2
EXPANSION SHELVES
Max. Disk Disk Drive Disk Drive Interface Interface Power Form
Drives Capacities Type/Size Modules Type Supply Factor
1TB 7.2K,
EXN3000 24 2TB 7.2K, 300GB 15K, SATA/SAS 2 x IOM3 12Gb SAS AC 4RU
(NetApp DS4243) 450GB 15K, 600GB 15K
2857-003
1
Single controller configuration
2
Dual controller specifications
3
Onboard FC ports for N3300/N3600 can be used for either target (SAN) and/or initiator (disk) mode
4
The second number refers to dual controller specifications
5
N3400 has one embedded SAS port (2 in HA configuration)
CIFS
NFS
iSCSI
FCoE
SAN GbE
Storage Efficiency Features
FC
SATA Drives with PAM
75% Capacity Savings
SATA drives provide
D D D D P P
significantly more storage Free Space
capacity. Combined with the Pool
performance acceleration RAID-DP
App C
module (PAM), they also App B
offer increased performance. App A
Thin Provisioning S
SATA Drives
with PAM
Deduplication
SATA Drives
RAID-DP with PAM
43% Capacity Savings Vol
File
®
RAID-DP protects against
D D D D P P double disk failure without Virtual Cloning
sacrificing performance or
adding disk mirroring Snapshot
RAID with
Double Parity overhead
IBM N series Unified Storage System
S
Snapshot
80% Capacity Savings
IBM N series
Snapshot™ technology Gateways
provides instant, point-in-time
data copies with minimal
storage space
SAN
Snapshot Snapshot
Copies
Thin Provisioning
Deduplicatio
33% Capacity Savings
Third-Party Storage
Thin provisioning keeps a (EMC, HP, HDS, etc)
Free Space
Pool common pool of storage
readily available to all Store Your Data More Efficiently with IBM N series
App C applications
App B Take full advantage of all the storage efficiencies features of IBM System Storage
App A
N series and lower your storage costs by as much as 50% without compromising
Pooled Storage
performance or availability. With IBM N series Gateways, repurpose your existing third
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Citrix
Application
Hyper-V™
Servers Files
VMware®
OS
OS
CIFS
NFS
iSCSI
FCoE
SAN GbE Storage Efficiency Features
FC Deduplication
95% Capacity Savings
Across applications and
D D D D P P protocols, deduplication
Free Space
Pool
identifies, validates, and
RAID-DP removes redundant data
App C blocks from volumes for
App B
App A up to 95% disk savings
SnapMirror® Thin Provisioning Deduplicated
Data
Virtual Cloning
IBM N series 90% Capacity Savings
Gateways
Free Space Virtual cloning creates
Pool Vol
on-demand, space-
App C efficient virtual clones
App B Vol Vol of volumes and
App A
SAN individual files
Thin Provisioning
File
Vol
File Volume- and
File-Level Clones
on Virtual Cloning
Third-Party Storage
(EMC, HP, HDS, etc)
party storage and fully utilize N series storage features such as deduplication, thin
provisioning, FlexClone® and thin replication. IBM System Storage N series and
Gateways are proven storage solutions for today’s data center storage needs.