Expanding the possibilities for your business with a storage system
IBM System Storage N6000 series
Today’s business environment demands
innovation and increasingly flawless
execution. You are asked to manage
and protect valuable data to enable
business growth and success. Change
can be continuous and your IT opera-
tions have to evolve while adhering to
hard limits on budget, staffing, and
infrastructure. Virtualized computing,
the latest wave of change, is quickly
becoming the norm. It calls for net-
worked storage systems that you can
use to consolidate diverse data sets
and unlock the full potential of virtual-
ized servers.
Highlights
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Meet diverse and changing
needs. Consolidate diverse
data sets onto a unified storage
platform that provides simulta-
neous block and file services
for business and technical
applications.
Maximize your resources.
Now you can simultaneously meet your
diverse needs—SAN and NAS, primary
and secondary storage—and provide
high levels of application availability for
your critical business operations to
technical applications. With IBM N6000
series systems, you get outstanding
value: our flexible systems offer excel-
lent performance and impressive scala-
bility at a low total cost of ownership.
Highly efficient storage utiliza-
tion makes it possible for you
to dramatically reduce your
consumption of raw storage,
power, cooling, and space.
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Improve your business effi-
ciency. Clients with different
storage subsystems in their
SAN environments can now
take advantage of the N6000
series Gateway capabilities to
help improve business effi-
ciency and reduce data
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Perform when your applications
need it most. Outstanding file-
based and transaction-based
performance with high band-
width, 64-bit architecture, and
the latest I/O technologies.
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Respond to growth. Thin provi-
sioning helps you eliminate
stranded storage. Preserve
investments in staff expertise
and capital equipment with
data-in-place upgrades to more
powerful N series systems while
running the same OS and using
management complexity.
the same management tools.
IBM N series offers an innovative thin
provisioning capability to help you
eliminate stranded storage by expand-
ing or contracting LUNs and volumes
by using a common pool of spare
capacity without IT staff intervention.
When more performance or scalability
is required, you can preserve invest-
ments in staff expertise and capital
equipment by installing a more powerful
N series controller that enables you to
keep your data in place and use the
same management tools.
Maximize your resources
Improve your business efficiency
IBM N6000 series systems can help
you reduce costs in many aspects of
your storage environment by simplifying
data management and maximizing stor-
age utilization to conserve raw storage,
power, cooling, and data center space.
N6000 systems can help you spend
less time waiting and more time inno-
vating, thanks to high system perform-
ance, fast backup, and recovery, and
rapid cloning of data sets.
Clients with different storage subsys-
tems in their SAN environments can
now take advantage of the N6000
series Gateway capabilities to help
improve business efficiency and
reduce data management complexity.
IBM N6000 series ordered under
Gateway structure is able to support
the attachment to a broad range of
IBM, EMC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, 3PAR, and
HP storage subsystems, including the
IBM Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS)
series, IBM System Storage™
DS8000™, and DS4000™ series.
Software
Operating system
Data ONTAP
Operating systems supported
Windows 2000, Windows Server® 2003, Windows XP, Linux, Sun™ Solaris™, IBM AIX®,
HP-UX, Mac OS, VMware ESX
Software features
Standard
Integrated RAID manager, including RAID-DP; Snapshot; Fast Boot; NIS; DNS; FilerView®;
FlexVol®; FlexShare; Disk Sanitization; SecureAdmin™; Network Data Management
Protocol (NDMP)
Licensed
CIFS; NFS; HTTP; FTP; iSCSI; FCP; FlexCache™; FlexClone®; FlexScale; MultiStore®;
Clustered Failover; SnapMirror®; SyncMirror®; SnapRestore; Single Mailbox Recovery;
Open Systems Snap Vault; SnapVault®; SnapMover®; NearStore®; Advanced Single
Instance Storage; SnapValidator®; SnapLock®; MetroCluster
Manageability software
Application Suite; SnapManager for Microsoft® Exchange; SnapManager for Microsoft SQL
Server®; SnapManager for Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server; SnapManager for Oracle;
SnapManager for SAP; SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure; Server Suite; SnapDrive®;
Virtual File Manager™ – Enterprise Edition; Virtual File Manager – Migration Edition; Storage
Suite; Protection Manager; Provisioning Manager; File Storage Resource Manager;
Operations Manager
Specifications
N6040
N6040
N6060
N6060
N6070
N6070
Machine Type Model
2858-A10
2858-A20
2858-A12
2858-A22
2858-A11
2858-A21
Controller Configuration
Single
Dual
Single
Dual
Single
Dual
(active/active)
(active/active)
(active/active)
Processors Speed and Type
Number of Processors
Random Access Memory
Nonvolatile Memory
2.4 GHz AMD Dual-core 64-bit Opteron
1
2
2
4
2
4
4 GB
8 GB
1 GB
8 GB
2 GB
16 GB
4 GB
16 GB
2 GB
32 GB
4 GB
512 MB
Integrated I/O Ports
Fibre Channel Ports (Speed)
Ethernet Ports (Speed)
4 (4-Gbps)
2 (1-Gbps)
8 (4-Gbps)
4 (1-Gbps)
4 (4-Gbps)
2 (1-Gbps)
8 (4-Gbps)
4 (1-Gbps)
4 (4-Gbps)
2 (1-Gbps)
8 (4-Gbps)
4 (1-Gbps)
Storage Scalability
Maximum Number of Fibre
Channel Loops
10
10
10
10
10
10
Maximum Raw Capacity
Maximum Number of Disk
Drives
420 TB
420
420 TB
420
672 TB
672
672 TB
672
840 TB
840
840 TB
840
Maximum Volume Size
Maximum Number of
Volumes/LUNs
16 TB
2048
16 TB
2048
16 TB
2048
16 TB
2048
16 TB
2048
16 TB
2048
Maximum Number of Storage
Enclosures
30
30
48
48
60
60
Maximum Number of FC or
iSCSI SAN connected servers
(per controller and per
active/active configuration)
256
I/O Scalability
PCI-e Expansion Slots
Maximum number of FC Ports
Maximum number of Ethernet
Ports
4
8
4
8
4
8
20
18
40
36
20
18
40
36
20
18
40
36
Maximum Number of Optional
Adapters
4
8
4
8
4
8
Storage Expansion Unit Disk Drive Support
EXN4000 – 4-Gbps Fibre
4-Gbps Fibre Channel: 300 GB, 10,000, 15,000 rpm; 450GB, 15,000 rpm
2-Gbps Fibre Channel: 300 GB, 10,000, 15,000 rpm; 450GB, 15,000 rpm
Channel Disk Storage
Expansion Unit (MTM 2863-004)
EXN1000 SATA disk storage
expansion unit (MTM 2861-001)
SATA: 500 GB, 7,200 rpm; 750 GB, 7,200 rpm, 1 TB
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