New Model of the IBM Totalstorage Network Attached Storage 300 Family Provides Greater Performance and Scalability
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Hardware Announcement October 30, 2001 New Model of the IBM TotalStorage Network Attached Storage 300 Family Provides Greater Performance and Scalability Overview • Tivoli Storage Manager agent update At a Glance The IBM TotalStorage Network Attached Storage (NAS) 300 family, The TotalStorage NAS 300, is Designed to help: delivered fully tested with all announced June 12, 2001, has now • been enhanced with the new IBM components completely assembled Protect your investment and TotalStorage NAS 300 Model 326. into a 36U rack. For currently prepare you for future growth The NAS 300 Model 326 is designed installed 5195-325 systems, NAS with scalable storage capacity to provide greater performance, Release 1 Fixpack (a no-charge field ranging from 109.2 GB to capacity, and granularity to help feature), is available. This Fixpack 6.61 TB upgrades the preloaded operating meet your current and future storage • Reduce installation time with a needs. system and application code to the level of the new models with the fully assembled and tested solution The new Model 326 offers improved: exception of support of new hardware features. Fixes to known • • Improve data availability with Processor speed (1.133 GHz) problems are also included. hot swap power supplies, • automatic system recovery, and Storage capacity, with a choice TotalStorage NAS Family of 73.4 GB HDD or 36.4 HDD Tivoli Storage Manager Agent ′ • The NAS 300 is a member of IBM s • Simplify remote configuration Scalability (from 109.2 GB to NAS family of products, which are 6.61 TB), helping to make future and administration tasks with specifically designed, configured, preloaded tools expansion simple and and packaged to provide solutions to cost-effective help overcome the challenges of cost • Increase system performance The TotalStorage NAS Model 326 effectively sharing, managing, and and availability with a standard provides superior protecting data within complex second engine and second fibre networked-attached storage for network infrastructures. hub small to mid-sized enterprises. If • Protect your mission-critical your business is faced with Key Prerequisites data with RAID and Persistent expanding Internet use, increased Storage Manager e-business operations, or an • NAS 300 Model 326 connects to increase in mission-critical an Ethernet LAN. Includes additional features not applications, the NAS 300 Customer-supplied Ethernet found in the NAS 200 Series Model 326 may be the answer. cabling must be used to connect products (load sharing, to the LAN. enhanced performance, highly The system comes standard with • scalable storage) dual-node engines for clustering and This rack-mounted system provides for power distribution, fail-over protection. The dual Fibre For ordering, contact: Channel Hubs provide IT however, sufficient power must Your IBM representative, an IBM Business administrators with be provided to the rack. Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at high-performance paths to the RAID 800-IBM-CALL Reference: SE001 storage controllers using high-speed fibre-to-fibre technology. Planned Availability Date Major components in the preloaded November 30, 2001 operating system and application code (V2.0) have also been enhanced and improved. Changes include: • Windows Powered OS update • CDP′s Persistent Storage Manager update • Netfinity Director Services client update This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, call 800-IBM-4YOU, or visit the IBM home page at: http://www.ibm.com. IBM United States IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. 101-322 Description Product Structure Model 326 5186 Model 36U Rack 1 5187 Model 6RZ Engine 2 Memory (1 GB — exp. to 2 GB) HDD (18 GB each) Optional second 18 GB HDD Fibre Channel Adapter — 1-port each 3534 SAN FC Managed Hub Model 1RU 2 5191 Model 0RU RAID Controller 1 (3 to 10 36.4 or 73.4 GB HDD) Optional 5191 Model — RAID Ctlr 0 (109 to 734 GB) — 1 max. Optional 5192 Model — Storage Unit 0 (109 to 734 GB) — 7 max. The IBM TotalStorage Network Attached Storage (NAS) 300 Model 326 is the follow-on IBM product to the Preloaded System Code 5195-325. It is designed to provide an easy to deploy and manage highly reliable and scalable storage solution. The Optional Network Management Software scalability and storage capacity of the 5195 NAS Model 326 are significantly improved over the 5195-325. Each NAS 300 Model 326 is preloaded at the factory with the base operating system and application code. The The TotalStorage NAS 300 Model 326 consists of the code is loaded to the system′s hard disk with a backup following machines: copy provided on CD-ROM. The operating system and NAS application code are specifically tuned to enable the • One IBM 5186 NAS Rack Model 36U Model 326 as a high-performance NAS appliance. • Two IBM 5187 NAS Engine Model 6RZs In addition to the operating system and application code, • Two 3534 SAN Fibre Channel Managed Hub the code load contains configuration and administration Model 1RUs tools that simplify remote configuration and administrator tasks. Network management agents are included that • One IBM 5191 NAS RAID Storage Controller provide options by which the NAS 300 Model 326 can be Model 0RU managed. NAS 300 Model 326 is preinstalled in the rack with a fully The preloaded code contains the following functions: integrated suite of optimized software preloaded. It is designed to be installed quickly and easily and the entire system is tested by IBM prior to delivery. Preloaded Operating System and Application Code Functions For high-performance data handling, each NAS 300 Model 326 engine employs dual 1.133 GHz Pentium III Windows Powered OS (SP2 ) processors and 1 GB of memory standard. High performance Fibre Channel Hubs and cabling are used for • Optimized for NAS 300 Model 326 disk connectivity. Optionally, the NAS 300 Model 326 can be enhanced by adding: File Systems Supported • An additional 5191 NAS RAID Storage Controller • CIFS (NT LM 0.12), NFS (V2.0,V3.0), FTP, HTTP (V1.1), Model 0RU Apple File protocol, Netware (NDS, Netware File System) • Up to seven 5192 NAS Storage Unit Model 0RUs Remote NAS System Administration The Rack is preconfigured with Fibre Channel cabling for all such expansions. • Administrative task performed in the Web-based GUI The base NAS 300 Model 326 is configured with either • IBM Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility 109 GB or 218 GB of HDD. These minimums consist of the • minimum three 36.4 GB or 73.4 GB HDDs in the first Alternate administrative task performed using (required) RAID Controller. These minimums can be Windows Terminal Service expanded by adding one to seven additional HDDs to the • Advanced management functions available via first RAID Controller. It is recommended that the Windows Terminal Service practical minimum be six to ten HDDs. • Simple point-and-click for restores using Additional HDDs can be added in eight increments of Windows NT Backup 109.2 to 728 GB. This level of granularity is achieved using three to ten 36.4 GB or 73.4 GB HDDs in each • NAS Backup Assistant MMC Snap-in Web page additional 5191 and 5192. The maximum configuration of 6.61 TB is achieved by adding IBM 5192 NAS Storage Unit UNIX Services Model 0RU and IBM 5191 NAS RAID Storage Controller • Model 0RU optional machines using 73.4 GB HDDs. Preconfigured NFS support • Web-based GUI for performing administrative tasks 101-322 -2- • Microsoft Services for UNIX V2.2 • Image access and administration. via Web-based user • NFS V2.0 (IETF RFC 1084), V3.0 (IETF RFC 1830) interface is flexible and configurable. − Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Enabled Schedule images (for each schedule entry (image group), specify interval, number to keep, image • Designed to provide the capability of the NAS 300 to name, properties (read-only or read-write, retention be managed by a network management application level)). such as IBM Director, HP OpenView using SNMP − Create a new image immediately (specify name and protocols properties). Automatic Recovery of Operating System − Delete images. • Customer-scheduled backups of the system partition − View and change properties of images (also reset read-write images). • 50-minute original factory CD-ROM reload of operating system − Restore a volume (from any image of that volume). • Prevention of accidental reloads via reload − Configure advanced parameters. enablement diskette − Maximum number of images to keep concurrently. Advanced Aggregate Management − Name of image root directory. • IBM Director Agent − Quiescent period and quiescent period wait timeout. Columbia Data Products Persistent Storage Manager for IBM NAS Product: Persistent Storage Manager (PSM) − Size of the image cache file (per volume). creates True Images (multiple point-in-time persistent − Image cache file usage warning and automatic images of any or all system and data volumes). All image deletion thresholds (per volume). persistent images are designed to survive system power loss or a planned or unplanned reboot. Each instance of IBM Director with Universal Manageability (UM) PSM handles 250 concurrent images of up to 255 Services V2.2 independent volumes for a total of 63,750 independent data images. Typically, any image can be easily managed The NAS 300 Model 326 code preload contains IBM through the Microsoft Web user interface, and accessed Director Agent V2.2. This provides the NAS 300 with a the same as any other active volume. In case of data client management application for networked computers, corruption or loss, typically, any persistent image can be helping to centralize control of computer systems and used for manual retrieval of individual files (by the lower the total cost of management. The IBM Director administrator or end users), or more importantly, for agent is designed to allow the user to view, monitor, and instant restoration (by a PSM function initiated by the control the NAS 300 through a management application administrator, in the Web user interface) of the entire such as the IT Director/Netfinity Server.