System Storage N series Gateway for SAN Storage Environments

Highlights

Heterogeneous unified storage environmentUnified access for multiprotocol storage environments
VersatileIntegrated architecture to support concurrent block I/O and file serving over Ethernet and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructures, helping to optimize investment protection and ROI
Storage consolidationDesigned to enable organizations to consolidate UNIX, Linux, Windows and Web workloads with existing SAN storage
Comprehensive software suiteDesigned to provide robust system management, copy services, virtualization technologies and disaster recovery and backup capabilities across all SAN resources

Improving storage utilization and access

As enterprise storage requirements evolved from direct-attached to networked storage, many enterprises made significant investments in multiple storage architecturesdirect-attached storage (DAS), storage area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS)to support the different access methods required by various business solutions. The result was often inefficient and underutilized storage environments. A critical IT management challenge is to optimize the use of existing storage to improve efficiency and return on investment (ROI) while continuing to support different access methods for different business solutions throughout the enterprise.

You may not be ready to replace existing storage systems with new, unified ones. Instead, you might be looking for ways to broaden the use of current infrastructure and improve return on investment by provisioning SAN capacity for new business solutions requiring FCP, iSCSI or NAS access and remote access.

IBM System Storage N series Gateway

The IBM System Storage N series Gateway product line is a network-based unified storage solution designed to provide Internet Protocol (IP) and Fibre Channel (FC) protocol access to SAN-attached heterogeneous storage arrays. The N6000 and N7000 series systems ordered with a Gateway feature code can help you make the most of the dynamic provisioning capabilities of Data ONTAP software across your existing Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure to support an expanded set of business applications. The IBM N series Gateway is based on the Data ONTAP microkernel operating system, which is designed to unify block and file storage networking paradigms under a common architecture. The N series Gateway offers a comprehensive suite of advanced data management capabilities designed to help you consolidate, protect and recover mission-critical data for enterprise applications and users.

The IBM N series Gateway is designed to deliver the performance and capacity to meet access requirements for enterprises of all sizes. N series Gateway systems are intended to deliver industry-leading performance, offer terabytes of managed capacity, and be configured for simultaneous active/active access with secure failover across two independent systems in a cluster

The N6000 and N7000 series Gateway product lines support the attachment to both N series EXN1000, EXN3000 and EXN4000 disk storage expansion units; IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) series, IBM XIV Storage System, IBM System Storage DS8000 and DS4000 series; as well as a broad range of EMC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, 3PAR and HP storage subsystems. You can now take advantage of the N series Gateway capabilities to help improve business efficiency and reduce data management complexity with a variety of storage subsystems.

N7000 series Gateways

Common features N7000

Simultaneous multiprotocol support for FCP, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP
File- and block-level service in a single system
Data ONTAP software
16 TB maximum volume size
Broad range of built-in features
Multiple supported backup methods including disk- and host-based backup and tape backup to direct, SAN and GbE attached tape devices

Hardware summary N7000

Up to 1.176 Petabytes (PB) or 1,176 TB raw storage capacity supported from SAN-based storage resources
16 GB to 64 GB ECC memory
512 MB to 4 GB nonvolatile memory
Up to 52 full-duplex 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet ports
Up to 56 4-Gbps Fibre Channel ports
10-Gbps Ethernet adapter card (optional)
Quad-port 4-Gbps adapters (optional)
Dual FC LVD SCSI Tape adapter
Dual redundant hot-plug integrated cooling fans and auto-ranging power supplies
19" rack-mount enclosure

N6000 series Gateways

Common features N6000

Simultaneous multiprotocol support for FCP, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP
File- and block-level service in a single system
Upgrade up to 840 TB of physical capacity while avoiding service disruption
Support for Fibre Channel and SATA disk drives
Data ONTAP software
16 TB maximum volume size
Broad range of built-in features
Multiple supported backup methods including disk- and host-based backup and tape backup to direct, SAN and GbE attached tape devices

Hardware summary N6000

Up to 804 TB raw storage capacity
4 GB to 21 GB Cache memory
512 MB to 4 GB nonvolatile memory
10 GbE adapter card (optional)
Quad-port 4 Gbps adapters (optional)
Up to 8 Performance Acceleration Modules (Flash Cache)
Diagnostic LED/LCD
Dual redundant hot-plug integrated cooling fans and auto-ranging power supplies 19 rack-mountable

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