DS6800 (Models 1750-511 and 1750-522)

The DS6000™ offers the following features:

Two fibre channel processor cards
PowerPC 750GX 1 GHz processor
4 GB of cache
Two battery backup units (one per each processor card)
Two ac/dc power supplies with imbedded enclosure cooling units
Eight 2 Gb/sec device ports
Connectivity with the availability of two to eight fibre-channel/FICON host ports. The host ports autonegotiate to either 2 Gbps or 1 Gbps link speeds.
Attachment to 7 DS6000 expansion enclosures.

The DS6800 is a self-contained 3U enclosure that can be mounted in a standard 19-inch rack. The DS6800 comes with authorization for up to 16 internal fibre-channel DDMs or FATA drives, offering up to 8 TB of storage capability. The DS6800 allows up to 7 DS6000 expansion enclosures to be attached. A storage system supports up to 128 disk drives for a total of up to 64 TB of storage.

Note: The intermix of drive types is not allowed within an enclosure.

The DS6800 system offers connectivity with the availability of two to eight fibre-channel/FICON host ports. The 2 GB fibre-channel/FICON host ports, which are offered in longwave and shortwave, autonegotiate to either 2 Gbps or 1 Gbps link speeds. This flexibility supports the ability to exploit the potential benefits offered by higher performance, 2 Gbps SAN-based solutions, while also maintaining compatibility with existing 1 Gbps infrastructures. In addition, with the maximum of eight host ports enabled, the DS6800 system can be configured with an intermix of Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) and FICON. This can help protect your investment in fibre-channel adapters and increase your ability to migrate to new servers.

The DS6800 system offers connectivity support across a broad range of server environments, including IBM eServer™, zSeries®, iSeries™, and pSeries® servers as well as servers from Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and other Intel-based providers. The ability to easily partition the capacity of the DS6800 system storage among the attached environments supports storage consolidation requirements in dynamic and changing environments.