IBMDS3500Features&Benefits

Feature

Host interface intermix

Benefits Support for intermixing SAS and Fibre Channel or SAS and iSCSI interfaces allows for cost-effective SAN tiering and consolidation Equally adept at IOPS and MB/s, the DS3500 supports applications with wide-ranging performance requirements Well suited for consolidation and virtualization environments that have diverse workloads and application requirements Designed to support transactional applications and throughput-intensive applications concurrently 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. Comprehensive protection for data-at-rest ensures data is secured throughout the drives lifecycle without sacrificing performance or ease of use Start small, grow big provides the flexibility to grow with your data needs Not locked into high-quantity drive purchase at initial purchase Ability to intermix high-performance SAS, nearline SAS, SAS, SSD and SED drives enables tiered storage Cost-effectively support an organizations complete range of data capacity requirements from near-line to highly used applicationswith support for mixed drive types within a single storage system Enclosure-based intermixing maximizes efficiency Near-line SAS drives are also the clear replacement of SATA drives; competitively priced to SATA drives, near-line SAS drives significantly

Balanced performance

Complete testing and integration with IBM System x, IBM BladeCenter and IBM Power Systems servers

Support for SED drives

Scalability up to 192 drives

Support for drive intermix

Near-line SAS drives support

Feature

Benefits outperform SATA and do so with greater reliability, for a comparable price

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 The solid state drives (SSDs) supported by the DS3500 Express can be used to improve application performance while simultaneously reducing power and cooling requirements Achieve great performance with fewer drives Lower drive investment and reduced heat dissipation Maximizes capacity utilizations use for applications that need to move large amounts of data with maximum throughput performance Ideal for very large databases or file systems, or those wishing to utilize use more than 30 drives per volume to maximize performance Modular design avoids over-configuration for an affordable entry point while offering seamless pay-as-you-grow scalability as requirements change Efficient utilization use 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 Meets the standard 48 V DC requirements of telecommunications and related industries A NEBS/ETSI compliant storage system provides assurance of resiliency in the most intense and harsh environments Full-time storage administrators achieve complete

Solid State Drives (SSDs) support

Superior disk utilization use

Support for greater than 2 TB LUNs

Fully configured RAID 0 and 10 Volume Groups

Built-in efficiencies

DS3500 DC model

DS Storage Manager

Feature

Benefits control over their storage configuration and parttime users have an intuitive and simple interface Centralized management of all local and networked DS5000, DS4000 and DS3500 storage systemsmeans increased management efficiencies and a reduced learning curve with single management Investment protection with enhanced remote mirroring support across FC host interfaces 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 Enough partitions to effectively support mediumscale consolidation or virtualization environments, thus helping to reduce hardware and storage management costs Firmware upgrades can occur with continued data accessibility continues in dual controller configurations Organizational productivity and customer satisfaction is assured with data available 247365 Up to 256 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 copiesacross the Fibre Channel interfacecan be used for file restoration, backups, application testing, data mining or disaster recovery

Dynamic software capabilities

Up to 128 partitions supported

Online firmware upgrades