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High availability to The IBM Enterprise Storage Server provides superior storage sharing for a
safeguard data access range of servers.
Support for 24x7 operations is built
into the IBM Enterprise Storage Server.
RAID 5 disk arrays help provide data
protection while remote copy technologies Scalability for fast-growing investments in ESS technology and
allow fast data backup and disaster environments enhances the scalability of installed
recovery. The IBM Enterprise Storage The IBM Enterprise Storage Server is Enterprise Storage Servers.
Server is a high-performance RAID 5 especially designed for e-business and
storage server featuring dual active other applications with unpredictable
processing clusters with fail-over growth requirements. It provides unprec- Performance enhancements
switching, hot spares, hot-swappable disk edented scalability (up to 11 TB) while for S/390 servers
drives, and nonvolatile fast write cache, maintaining excellent performance. Building on the capabilities of the IBM
and redundant power and cooling. Disk drives for the IBM Enterprise Storage Versatile Storage Server and the RAMAC*
Server are provided as integrated Virtual Array family, the IBM Enterprise
The IBM Enterprise Storage Server also packages of eight disk drives (known as Storage Server improves function and
contains integrated functions to help eight-packs). Three disk drive capacities performance for S/390 servers:
prevent storage server downtime by are available: 9 GB,18 GB, and 36 GB.
constantly monitoring system functions. The server’s base frame can hold a • Multiple Allegiance: This feature enables
If a potential problem is detected, the IBM maximum of 16 eight-packs which, when different operating systems to perform
Enterprise Storage Server automatically used with 36 GB disks, yields a total multiple, concurrent I/Os to the same logical
“calls home” to report the problem. capacity of nearly 3.4 TB. An add-on volume—reducing queuing and signifi-
A technician can be dispatched to make expansion enclosure is the same size as cantly increasing performance. By enabling
repairs, often before the problem is noticed the base frame and can contain twice as the Enterprise Storage Server to process
by data center staff. Maintenance— many eight-packs—up to 256 hard disk more I/Os in parallel, Multiple Allegiance
including licensed internal code revisions— drives—to deliver a maximum capacity and optional Parallel Access Volumes can
can typically be performed without of more than 11.2 TB. dramatically improve performance and
interrupting operations. enable more effective use of larger
volumes. The result is simplified storage
Built-in investment protection management at a reduced cost.
Built-in flexibility The IBM Enterprise Storage Server helps
The IBM Enterprise Storage Server is a protect existing investments in IBM • Parallel Access Volumes: Previous S/390
general-purpose disk system, providing storage devices. For example, disk systems allowed only one I/O operation
outstanding flexibility with many options capacity from IBM Versatile Storage per logical volume at a time. Now, perform-
(IBM offers several predefined configura- Server* frames and IBM 7133 Serial Disk ance is improved by enabling multiple
tions to simplify ordering). The system System drawers (Models 020 and D40) I/Os from any operating system to access
consists of disk drives attached to a can be attached to the IBM Enterprise the same volume at the same time.
storage server via high-speed serial Storage Server. Furthermore, first-
interfaces. A variety of host attachment generation (Models E10 and E20) • Priority I/O Queuing: The storage server
options (UltraSCSI, ESCON, FICON, and Enterprise Storage Servers may be can ensure that important jobs have
Fibre Channel) enable the system to be upgraded to the F-models, yielding up to priority access to storage resources.
optimized for the specific requirements of 100% improvement in throughput. With Priority I/O Queuing, the Enterprise
each computing environment. This upgrade protects customers’ Storage Server uses information provided
by the OS/390 Workload Manager to
manage the sequence in which I/Os are
processed—matching I/O priority to your Host Adapters Host Adapters
application priorities.
Cluster Interconnections
Cache size 8 or 16 GB 8 or 16 GB
Host server attachments Up to 32 SCSI or ESCON ports, up to 16 Fibre Up to 32 SCSI or ESCON ports, up to 16 Fibre
Channel ports, and intermix configurations Channel ports, and intermix configurations
Physical characteristics
Dimensions 75.25" H x 54.50" W x 35.75" D 75.25" H x 54.50" W x 35.75" D
(1913 mm x 1383 mm x 909 mm) (1913 mm x 1383 mm x 909 mm)
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