IBM DS4700 System Storage

IBM System Storage DS4700 Model 72 - Hard drive array - 16 bays ( 4Gb Fibre Channel ) - 0 x HD - 4Gb Fibre Channel (external) - rack-mountable - 3U - Express

The DS4700 Express offers highperformance 4 Gbps capable Fibre Channel connections, up to 84 TB of physical storage capacity with 112 750 GB SATA disk drives, and powerful system management, data management and data protection features. The DS4700 Express is designed to expand from workgroup to enterprise-wide capability with the attachment of six DS4000 EXP810 disk enclosures. The DS4700 Express DC Models are NEBS-3 compliant storage systems designed to be powered from a -48 Volt DC Telco industry-standard power source. The DS4700 Express is available in a 3U high enclosure and mounts in a 19-inch rack-mount package.

The DS4700 Express Model 72 has eight independent 4 Gbps Fibre Channel host ports for direct attachment to host (FC-AL) or for fabric attachment to storage area networks (FC-SW). The DS4700 Express storage system?s four 4 Gbps drive connections are designed to support up to 112 disk drives with the attachment of six DS4000 EXP810 disk enclosures. This makes the DS4700 Express a good
choice for performance-oriented or capacity-oriented storage requirements. Models 70 and 72 are designed to support over 33.6 TB of Fibre Channel physical storage capacity. The DS4700 Express expands the DS4000?s history of flexibility with another configuration option?cache size. The DS4700 Express is available in two models: Model 70 is designed to support up to 2 GB of physical cache
memory (1 GB per controller) and the Model 72 can support up to 4 GB of physical cache memory (2 GB per controller).

Characteristics
Model 1814-70A/H/S/T, 1814-72A/H/S/T
1814-70S/T, 1814-72S/T (DC power supplies)

RAID controller
Dual active

Cache
Model 70A/70S: 2 GB
Model 72A/72S: 4 GB
Battery-backed

Host interface
8 host ports model 72, 4 host ports model 70?Fibre Channel (FC) Switched and FC Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) standard, Auto-sensing 1 Gbps/2 Gbps/4 Gbps
Drive interface 4 drive ports?Fibre Channel (FC) Switched and FC Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) standard, Auto-sensing 1Gbps/2 Gbps/4 Gbps

Supported drives
Supports 2 Gbps FC:10K ? 73.4 GB, 146.8 GB, 300 GB E-DDM, 15K ? 73.4 GB, 146.8 GB E-DDM
Supports 4 Gbps FC: 15k ? 300 GB, 146.8 GB, 73.4 GB E-DDM
Supports 4 Gbps SATA: 7.2K 750 GB, 500 GB E-DDM

RAID levels
0, 1, 3, 5, 10

Storage partitions
4, 8, 16 or 64 storage partitions

Maximum drives supported
Model 72A/H/S/T: 112 FC or 112 SATA drives (using 6 DS4000 EXP810 Expansion Units)
Model 70A//H/S/T: 112 FC or 112 SATA drives (using 6 DS4000 EXP810 Expansion Units)

Fans and power supplies
Dual redundant, hot-swappable

Rack support
19-inch, industry-standard rack

Management software
IBM System Storage DS4000 Storage Manager version 9.21
SAN support Supported IBM FC switches and directors (product numbers 2005, 2006, 2109, 3534, 2031, 2032, 2034, 2042, 2061 and 2062, and BladeCenter)

Warranty
Three year parts and labor warranty, 9x5 next business day, upgradeable to 24x7 with four hour response

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