The IBM® System Storage™ DS6000™ series is a member of the family of DS products and is built upon 2 Gbps fibre-channel technology that provides RAID-protected storage with advanced function, scalability, and increased addressing capabilities.
The DS6000 series is an enterprise-class storage solution that offers high reliability and performance in a modular midrange package. The DS6000 series provides storage sharing and consolidation for a wide variety of operating systems and mixed server environments.
The DS6000 series offers high scalability and excellent performance. With the DS6800 (Models 1750-511 and 1750-522), you can install up to 16 disk drive modules (DDMs). The minimum storage capability with 4 DDMs is 292 GB. The DS6000 series also offers 500 GB, 7 200 rpm Fibre-channel ATA (FATA) disk drives, so the maximum storage capability with 16 DDMs for the DS6800 model is 8 TB. FATA drives combine a fibre-channel interface with an ATA drive, which provides additional capacity to address specific application and business requirements. You can add FATA disk drives to the DS6000 series to satisfy the needs of various fixed-content, data-archival, reference data, and near-line applications that require large amounts of storage capacity at a lower cost.
If you want to connect more than 16 disks, you can use the optional DS6000 expansion enclosures (Models 1750-EX1 and 1750-EX2). A storage system supports up to 128 disk drives for a total of up to 64 TB of storage.
The DS6800 measures 5.25-in. high and is available in a 19-in. rack mountable package with an optional modular expansion enclosure of the same size to add capacity to help meet your growing business needs.
The DS6000 series addresses business efficiency needs through its heterogeneous connectivity, high performance, and manageability functions, thereby helping to reduce total cost of ownership.
You can view the DS6000 e-learning overview from the DS6000 Storage Manager Welcome page at http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1112&uid=ssg1S7001165. The e-learning overview provides an animated presentation about installation and configuration, service and support, and management tasks.