IBM today announced the following enhancements which turbo-charge the IBM System Storage™ DS4000 disk series. IBM System Storage
DS4000 series will be enriched with RAID 6 support, and new upgrade features
for FlashCopy, Enhanced Remote Mirroring,
and storage partitioning - HVEC
General Availability of these enhancements will be on February 8, 2008.
October 23, 2007 – IBM today announced the following enhancements which turbo-charge the IBM System Storage™ DS4000 disk series.
The IBM System Storage DS4000 series midrange disk storage offerings of high-performance, high-availability, business-critical storage solutions have been turbo-charged with new software functions and features delivered through enhancements in DS4000 Storage Manager Software across the DS4800, DS4700 Express, and the DS4200 Express products. These enhancements will offer:
- Support for RAID 6 on the DS4700 Express models and the DS4200 Express, giving customers improved data availability during drive rebuild operations.
- Support for greater than 2 TB volumes on selected supported operating systems
- Increased number of Flash Copies available per storage controller
- Up to 64 enhanced remote mirror pairs on the DS4700 and DS4200, and up to 128 on the DS4800 offering customers increased options for disaster recovery
- Enhanced cache utilization further improving performance
- Tiered performance license key for DS4800 Model 80 enabling a performance boost “on demand”
- Up to 128 storage partitions on the DS4700 Express and DS4200 Express, and up to 512 on the DS4800, enabling a range of hosts with different capacity, performance, or data protection demands to effectively share a single DS4000 storage system
DS4000 Series is delivering real business value to SMB clients with scalable solutions enabling business growth and designed to provide savings and investment protection with low total cost of ownership. World class services support SMB’s with consulting, education and expertise.
General Availability will be on February 8, 2008
With the performance, scaling, and reliability advantages of DS4000 Series, many of these traditionally “midrange” arrays are being effectively deployed in traditional Large enterprise environments. These customers should all be using implementation services and remote support tools to ensure the enterprise-class configuration and support. IBM strongly recommends that all customers in complex environments and especially those utilizing the flagship DS4800 acquire Implementation services from either IBM or our business partners, and utilize the no-charge Remote Support Manager (RSM) software. This strong recommendation is made to ensure customers realize the full performance, scalability and availability of their DS4800!
eConfiguration tool changes have been made to make acquiring of these Implementation Services easier, and to ensure the inclusion in all DS4800 proposals to customers.
Below is a checklist of actions considered critical to continue the DS4800’s marketplace acceptance and continued success and most importantly long term customer satisfaction:
Maintain firmware levels 1 – 2 times per year to get the latest enhancements
► Available for download on the web
► Part of On Site Problem Determination service offering
Install Remote Support Manager (RSM) for higher response to problems
► RSM replaced Alert Manager and Service Alert
► Software Available free of charge http://www.ibm.com/storage/disk/rsm
Warranty, Maintenance and Service Offerings
► Base warranty is Customer Set Up (CSU), 9x5 Next Business Day
► Upgrades to 24x7x4 warranty available
On Site Problem Determination (OPD) –strongly recommended
► Announced Feb 13, 2007 http://www.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/offering/its/a1026909/dt006
Highly Recommended Implementation Services
► IGS offers Implementation Services for partners that don’t have the capability
► http://w3-03.ibm.com/services/salesone/ShowDoc.wss?docid=U321957L12742U74
Solution Assurance Review (free first in enterprise)
New IBM Certified Systems Expert – DS4000 Technical Version 1 – Certification available November 2007
Additional information can be found in the PLET HERE
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