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IBM DS4200 Storage Server  

 

DS4200 Express

The IBM System Storage DS4200 Express Model 7V disk storage system is SATA-only disk storage solution designed to be an economical alternative for data archiving, reference data, and near-line storage applications. With four 4 Gbps Fiber Channel host ports the system is designed for high throughput for your most demanding applications. The 3U system also features redundant, dual-active intelligent RAID controllers supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, and 10.

The DS4200 has an internal physical storage capacity of up to 8 TB using optional DS4200 500 GB Enhanced Value Disk Drive Modules. Physical storage capacity can be increased up to 56 TB by attachment of up to six EXP420 Storage Expansion Units.


All configurations of SAN products must be reviewed by the IBM SE Team at x73050. The part numbers listed below are provide for pricing and basic product information. Please verify your configuration with IBM or Tech Data before you place an order for these products. RMAs will not be issued for orders that were not reviewed by Tech Data's IBM SE team.


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HOW TO CONFIGURE YOUR DS4200: Walk through this step-by-step guide, choosing appropriate systems and options as indicated below:


Step 1: Choose your server

The DS4200 has an internal physical storage capacity of up to 8 TB using optional DS4200 500 GB Enhanced Value Disk Drive Modules. Physical storage capacity can be increased up to 56 TB by attachment of up to six EXP420 Storage Expansion Units.


Click on Image for rear view of the DS4200

Description MFR# TD #

DS4200 Model 7VH Disk System (Holds up to 16-drives internally and connection for up to 6@ EXP420's) (includes 2GB cache, Microsoft Windows Host Kit) Eight 4Gbps FC ports (four 4Gbps FC host ports and four 4Gbps FC drive ports). Includes: 4@ 4GB SW SFP's, (up to 6 Expansion cabinets)

18147VH 89844D


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Step 2: Add EXP420 enclosures

The IBM System Storage EXP420 Storage Expansion Unit (18128VH) is a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) disk-only storage expansion unit for use with the DS4200 Express Model 7V.


Click on Image for a drawing on caballing the DS4200 & EXP420

   

EXP420 Expansion unit Max Storage MFR# TD#

DS4000 EXP420 w/ 2@ Shortwave SFPs (LC): 4GBPS 3U 16-Bay Storage Expansion Unit. designed to accommodate the new 2 Gbps SATA Channel E-DDMs, as well as future 4 Gbps Fibre Channel E- DDMs and Serial ATA (SATA) E-DDMs. (DS4800 Only, Initially)

16 18128VH 89843D
DS4200 EXP420 1-3 ATTACHMENT - 39M5954 89845D
DS4200 EXP420 4-6 ATTACHMENT - 39M5957 89846D

NOTE: The EXP420 comes with a 3 year, parts and labor next-business-day warranty standard. Many options are available to uplift this protection to higher levels.

Description  MFR# TD#
3YR onsite repair 9x5x4 hour 10N3650 030138
3YR onsite repair 24x7x4 hour 10N3651 030139
3YR onsite repair 24x7x2 hour 10N3652 030140
5YR onsite repair 24x7x4 hour 10N3653 030141
5YR onsite repair 24x7x2 hour 10N3654 030142

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Step 3: Add Drives

Description MFR# TD#
The DS4200 only supports SATA EV-DDM drives
DS4200 500 GB SATA EV-DDM HARD DRIVES (Only work in the DS4200 and EXP420) 42D0389 89857D

Step 4: Add Host Kit

Description MFR# TD#
Note - Windows host kit is included with all models of DS4700
DS4200 LINUX/INTEL HOST KIT  39M6009 89847D
DS4200 NOVELL NETWARE HOST KIT 39M6041 89848D
DS4200 VMWARE ESX HOST KIT 39M6046 89849D
DS4200 AIX HOST KIT 39M6048 89450D
DS4200 SUN HOST KIT 41Y5163 89456D
DS4200 HP-UX HOST KIT 41Y0686 89451D
DS4200 LINUX on POWER HOST KIT 42D3252 89458D

 

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Step 5: Premium Features

Description  MFR# TD#
A FlashCopy logical drive is a point-in-time image of a logical drive. It is the logical equivalent of a complete physical copy, but you create it much more quickly than a physical copy. Plus it requires less disk space. In DS4700 Storage Manager, the logical drive from which you are basing the FlashCopy, called the base logical drive, must be a standard logical drive in the Storage Subsystem. Typically, you create a FlashCopy so that an application (for example, an application to take backups) can access the FlashCopy and read the data while the base logical drive remains online and user-accessible. When the backup completes, the FlashCopy logical drive is no longer needed (it is usually disabled rather than delete.
DS4200 FLASHCOPY ACTIVATION 41Y0743 89854D
The VolumeCopy feature is a firmware-based mechanism for replicating logical drive data within a Storage Subsystem. This feature is designed as a system management tool for tasks such as relocating data to other drives for hardware upgrades or performance management, data backup, and restoring snapshot logical drive data. A VolumeCopy creates a complete physical replication of one logical drive (source) to another (target) within the same Storage Subsystem. The target logical drive is an exact copy or clone of the source logical drive. Because VolumeCopy is a full point-in-time replication, it allows for analysis, mining, and testing without any degradation of the production logical drive performance. It also brings improvements to backup and restore operations, making them faster and eliminating I/O contention on the primary (source) logical drive.
DS4200 VOLUMECOPY ACTIVATION 41Y0746 89855D
DS4200 FLASH / VOLUMECOPY ACTIVATION 41Y0748 CALL
The Enhanced Remote Mirroring option is used for online, real-time replication of data between Storage Subsystems over a remote distance. In the event of disaster or unrecoverable error at one Storage Subsystem you can promote the second Storage Subsystem to take over responsibility for normal I/O operations. The Enhanced Remote Mirroring is a redesign of the former Remote Volume Mirroring and now offers three different operating modes:
Metro Mirroring
Metro Mirroring is a synchronous mirroring mode. Any host write request is written to the primary (local) Storage Subsystem and then transferred to the secondary (remote) Storage Subsystem. The remote storage controller reports the result of the write request operation to the local storage controller which reports it to the host. This mode is called synchronous, because the host application does not get the write request result until the write request has been executed on both (local and remote) storage controllers. This mode corresponds to the former RVM functionality.
Global Copy
Global Copy is an asynchronous write mode. All write requests from a host are written to the primary (local) Storage Subsystem and immediately reported as completed to the host system. Regardless of when data was copied to the remote Storage Subsystem, the application does not wait for the I/O commit from the remote site. However, Global Copy does not ensure that write requests performed to multiple drives on the primary site are later processed in the same order on the remote site. As such, it is also referred to as Asynchronous Mirroring without Write Consistency Group.
Global Mirroring
Global Mirroring is an asynchronous write that ensures that the write requests are carried out in the same order at the remote site. This mode is also referred to as Asynchronous Mirroring with Write Consistency Group. The new Enhanced Remote Mirroring has also been equipped with new functions for better business continuance solution design and maintenance tasks.
DS4200 ENHANCED REMOTE MIRROR ACTIVATION 41Y0749 CALL
Storage partitioning adds a high level of flexibility to the DS4000 Storage Server. It allows you to connect a much higher number of host systems, either in stand-alone or clustered mode. Without storage partitioning, the logical drives configured on a DS4700 Storage Server can only be accessed by a single host system or by a single cluster. This can surely lead to inefficient use of Storage Server hardware. Storage partitioning, on the other hand, allows you to create sets, containing the hosts with their host bus adapters and the logical drives. We call these sets storage partitions. Now the host systems can only access their assigned logical drives, just as if these logical drives were locally attached to them. Storage partitioning adapts the SAN idea of globally accessible storage to the local-storage-minded operating systems. Storage partitioning lets you map and mask LUNs (that is why it is also referred to as LUN masking). That means once you have assigned the LUN to a host it is hidden from all other hosts connected to the same Storage Server. Therefore, the access to that LUN is exclusively reserved for that host.
DS4200 UPGRADE FROM 2 TO 4 STORAGE PARTITIONS 42D3254 89859D
DS4200 UPGRADE FROM 2 TO 8 STORAGE PARTITIONS  42D3257 89860D
DS4200 UPGRADE FROM 4 TO 8 STORAGE PARTITIONS 42D3260 89857D
DS4200 UPGRADE FROM 4 TO 16 STORAGE PARTITIONS 42D3263 89862D
DS4200 UPGRADE FROM 8 TO 16 STORAGE PARTITIONS 42D3266 89863D
DS4200 UPGRADE FROM 8 TO 64 STORAGE PARTITIONS 42D3269 89864D
DS4200 UPGRADE FROM 16 TO 64 STORAGE PARTITIONS 42D3272 89865D

1- DS4200 Comes standard with 2  storage Partitions
 

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Step 6: Cabling

Description  MFR# TD#
Fiber Cables LC 2-4GB Fiber
1M LC-LC FIBER CHANNEL CABLE 39M5696 030038
5M LC-LC FIBER CHANNEL CABLE 39M5697 030039
13M LC-LC FIBER CHANNEL CABLE 23R7137 33137D
25M LC-LC FIBER CHANNEL CABLE 39M5698 030040

Step 8: Fabric Switches

For detailed SAN switch specifications visit the SAN Networking page.

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Step 9: HBAs and SFPs

Description  MFR# TD#
SW 4 Gbps SFP Transceiver Pair (2-pack) 26K7941 030034
PCI-E HBA Single and Dual 4GB
Emulex 4Gb FC Single-Port PCI-E HBA for IBM System x 42C2069  97100D
Emulex 4Gb FC Dual-Port PCI-E HBA for IBM System x   42C2071 97101D
QLogic 4-Gbps FC Single-Port PCI-E HBA 39R6525 97436D
QLogic 4-Gbps FC Dual-Port PCI-E HBA 39R6527 97437D
PCI-X Single and Dual HBA's 2GB & 4GB
Emulex 4Gb/s PCI-X 2.0 single port 42D0405 97102D
Emulex 4Gb/s PCI-X 2.0 dual port 42D0407 97103D
QLogic 1-pt PCI-X 4 Gbps HBA 39M5894 33378D
QLogic 2-pt PCI-X 4 Gbps HBA 39M5895 33379D
FC-2-133 PCI-X LP Host Bus Adapter (HBA) 24P0960 386345
2-Pack FC-2-133 PCI-X LP Host Bus Adapter (HBA) 22R5036 43774B

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Step 10: Maintenance Options

NOTE: The DS4200 comes with a 3 year, parts and labor next-business-day warranty standard. Many options are available to uplift this protection to higher levels.

Description  MFR# TD#
3YR onsite repair 9x5x4 hour 42V1553 97491D
3YR onsite repair 24x7x4 hour 42V1554 811955
3YR onsite repair 24x7x2 hour 42V1555 97508D
5YR onsite repair 24x7x4 hour 42V1556 89947D
5YR onsite repair 24x7x2 hour 42V1557 97492D

(RTS) Phone support for the DS4700 24X7

Description  MFR# TD#
1YR Remote Technical Support for storage devices 39K2303 655256
3YR Remote Technical Support for storage devices 41W9379 030031

 

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Step 11: Submit your configuration to the Call me now IBM SE Team.

 

All configurations of SAN products should be reviewed by the IBM SE Team at x73050. The part numbers listed below are provide as a pricing tool. Please verify your configuration with IBM or Tech Data before you place an order for these products. RMAs will not be issued for orders that were not reviewed by Tech Data's IBM SE team.

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