IBM DS4800 Storage

IBM DS4800 System Storage

The IBM System Storage DS4800 disk storage system supports a high-performance 4 Gbps Fibre Channel interface for increased host connectivity to deliver necessary bandwidth for high-throughput applications. The DS4800 is designed for data-intensive applications that demand increased connectivity provided by eight 4 Gbps host channels designed to provide up to 1724 MBps of sustained bandwidth for high-throughput applications through the eight channels directly attached to the host servers or connected to a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN).

DS4800 Disk Platform support
System p, System x, Windows Server 2003 w/SP1, Windows 2000 Server & Adv.Server w/SP4, Novell NetWare 6.0 w/SP5 & 6.5 w/SP5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 U7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 U3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3, VMWare ESX 2.5.2 AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, HP-UX 11i and 11.23, Solaris 8, 9, 10

DS4800 Host connectivity
Fibre Channel

SAN support
Enhanced Remote Mirroring, FlashCopy, VolumeCopy

Availability features
Fault-tolerant, RAID, redundant power/cooling, hot-swap drives, dual controllers, concurrent microcode update capability, dual-pathing driver

Controller
Dual active 4 Gbps RAID controllers

Cache (min, max)
4 GB, 4 GB (80A/82A)
8 GB, 8 GB (84A)
16 GB, 16 GB (88A)

RAID support
0, 1, 3, 5, 10

Capacity (min, max)
36.4 GB, 67.2 TB via EXP810/EXP700/EXP710 (FC) 400 GB, 89.6 TB via EXP100 (Sl ATA), 168 TB via EXP810 (SATA)

Drive interface
4 Gbps Switched

Drive support
2 Gbps 73.4 GB, 146.8 GB and 300 GB 10,000 rpm; (FC) 36.4 GB, 73.4 GB, 146.8 GB 15,000 rpm; 4 Gbps 36.4 GB, 73.4 GB, 146.8 and 300 GB 15,000 rpm (FC) (Serial ATA) 250 GB, 400 GB, 500 GB and 750 GG 7200 rpm (SATA)

Host interface
8 host ports?Fibre Channel (FC) Switched and FC Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) standard, auto-sensing 1 Gbps/2 Gbps/4 Gbps

Drive interface
8 drive ports?Fibre Channel (FC) Switched and FC Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) standard, auto-sensing 2 Gbps/4 Gbps

Supported drives with expansion unit
2 Gbps SATA: 7.2K rpm, 400 GB and 250 GB
4 Gbps SATA: 7.2K rpm 750 GB
4 Gbps SATA: 7.2K rpm 500 GB
2 Gbps FC: 15K rpm, 146 GB/73 GB/36 GB (E-DDM)
2 Gbps FC: 10K rpm, 300 GB/146 GB/73 GB (E-DDM)
4 Gbps FC: 15K rpm, 300 GB/146 GB/73 GB/36 GB (E-DDM)

RAID levels
0, 1, 3, 5, 10

Storage partitions
8, 16 or 64 storage partitions?choice of 8, 16 or 64 required
Upgrade: 8?16, 16?64

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

Physical characteristics

Dimensions H 174.50 mm (6.87 in)
W 481.75 mm (18.97 in)
D 634.92 mm (25.0 in)

DS4800 Weight
36.38 kg (80.2 lb)

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