| Feature |
Benefits |
| Host interface intermix |
- Support for intermixing SAS and FC or SAS and iSCSI interfaces allows for cost-effective SAN tiering and consolidation
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| Balanced performance |
- Equally adept at IOPS and MB/s, the DS3500 is able to support applications with wide-ranging performance requirements.
- Well suited for consolidation and virtualization environments that have diverse workloads and application requirements
- Designed to concurrently support transactional applications and throughput-intensive applications
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| Complete testing and integration with System x, BladeCenter and Power Systems servers |
- With its simple, efficient and flexible approach to storage, the DS3500 is a cost-effective, fully integrated complement to System x, BladeCenter and Power Systems servers.
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| Support for SED drives |
- Comprehensive protection for data-at-rest ensures data is secured throughout the drives life cycle without sacrificing performance or ease of use
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| Scalability up 96 drives |
- Start small, grow big provides the flexibility to grow with their data needs
- Not locked into high-quantity drive purchase at initial purchase
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| Support for drive intermix |
- Ability to intermix high-performance SAS, nearline SAS and SED SAS drives enables tiered storage
- Cost-effectively support an organizations complete range of data capacity requirementsfrom near-line to highly utilized applicationswith support for mixed drive types within a single storage system.
- Enclosure-based intermixing maximizes efficiency
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| Nearline SAS drives support |
- Nearline SAS drives are also the clear replacement of SATA drives. Competitively priced to SATA drives, nearline SAS drives significantly outperform SATA and do so with greater reliability, for a comparable price.
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| 2.5-in and 3.5-in drive support |
- Additional drive flexibility supports both high performance and great IOPS/Watt requirements
- Tray-level drive intermix cost-effectively meets all application, rack, and energy efficiency requirements within a single storage system
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| Superior disk utilization |
- Achieve great performance with fewer drives
- Lower drive investment and reduced heat dissipation
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| Support for greater than 2 TB LUNs |
- Maximizes capacity utilizations for applications that need to move large amounts of data with maximum throughput performance
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| Fully Configured RAID 0 and 10 Volume Groups |
- Ideal for very large databases or file systems, or those wishing to utilize more than 30 drives per volume to maximize performance
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| Built-in efficiencies |
- Modular design avoids over-configuration for an affordable entry point while offering seamless pay-as-you-grow scalability as requirements change
- Efficient utilization lowers raw capacity requirement and support for intermixing drives enables tiered storage
- Exceptional per-drive performance creates performance value by getting the most performance out of the fewest drives
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| DS Storage Manager |
- Full-time storage administrators achieve complete control over their storage configuration and part-time users have an intuitive and simple interface
- Centralized management of all local and networked DS5000, DS4000 and DS3500 storage systemsincreased management efficiencies and reduced learning curve with single management
- Investment protection with enhanced remote mirroring support across FC host interfaces
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| Dynamic software capabilities |
- Enhanced functionality with the ability to expand capacity, volume size, segment size, volume groups and migrate RAID levels with no data I/O interruption
- Simply adjust to changes in application, availability, or performance requirements without interruption
- Configure volumes, perform routine maintenance and add new enclosures and capacity without interrupting access to data
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| Up to 64 partitions supported |
- Enough partitions to effectively support medium-scale consolidation or virtualization environments, thus helping to reduce hardware and storage management costs
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| Online firmware upgrades |
- Firmware upgrades can occur with continued data accessibility continues in dual controller configurations
- Organizational productivity and customer satisfaction is assured with data available 24/7/365
- Up to 64 FlashCopy images per storage system and eight per volume support granular backup and recovery
- Multiple options allows administrators to best fit their replication needs
- Local or remote copies (across the FC interface) can be used for file restoration, backups, application testing, data mining or disaster recovery
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