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IBM DS4700 Storage Server  

   

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In a continuing effort to provide storage solutions that are designed to provide low total cost of ownership, high performance, robust functionality, and unparalleled ease of use, IBM offers the IBM System Storage DS4700 Express. As part of the DS4000 Series, the DS4700 Express offers high-performance 4 Gbps capable Fiber Channel connections, up to 33.6TB of Fiber Channel physical storage capacity, 56TB of SATA physical storage capacity, and powerful system management, data management and data protection features. The DS4700 Express is designed to expand from workgroup to enterprise-wide capability with up to six Fiber Channel expansion units with the DS4000 EXP810 Expansion Unit.


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 infromation. 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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Technical Paper DS4700 ( 1.3MB)

 IBM Storage Product Guide  ( 442KB)

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HOW TO CONFIGURE YOUR DS4700: Walk through this step-by-step guide, choosing appropriate systems and options as indicated below:


 Step 1: Choose your server
 

The DS4700 is a 3U enclosure has 4 Gbps Fiber Channel (FC) interfaces, and supports up to 16 disk drives.

 


Click on Image for rear view of the DS4700


Description MFR# TD #

DS4700 Model 70 Disk System (Holds up to 16-drives internally and connection for up to 6 EXP810's) (includes 2GB cache, 2 storage partition, Microsoft Windows Host Kit). Eight 4Gbps FC ports (four 4 Gbps FC host ports and four 4Gbps FC drive ports).Includes 4@ 4GB SW SFP's, (up to 6 Expansion cabinets, requires expansion licenses to add 1st and 4th EXP810)

181470H 33277D

DS4700 Model 72 Disk System (Holds up to 16-drives internally and connection for up to 6 EXP810's) (includes 4GB cache, 4 storage partition, Microsoft Windows Host Kit). Twelve 4 Gbps FC ports (eight 4Gbps FC host ports and four 4Gbps FC drive ports). Includes 6@ 4GB SW SFP's, (up to 6 Expansion cabinets, requires expansion licenses to add 4th EXP810 )

181472H 33278D

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Step 2: Add EXP810 enclosures

The DS4000 EXP810 is the latest disk drive enclosure in the DS4000 Series of products. This 3U enclosure has 4 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces, and supports up to 16 disk drives.

 

Click on Image for a drawing on caballing the DS4700 & EXP810

 


EXP810 Expansion unit Max Storage MFR# TD#
DS4000 EXP810 w/ 2@ Shortwave SFPs (LC): 4GBPS 3U 16-Bay Storage Expansion Unit. designed to accommodate the new 2 Gbps Fibre Channel E-DDMs, as well as future 4 Gbps Fibre Channel E- DDMs and Serial ATA (SATA) E-DDMs. (DS4800 Only, Initially) 16 Drives 181281H 030033
DS4700 Mod 70 EXP's ATTACCHMENT 1 - 3 - 41Y5222 33304D
DS4700 Mod 70 EXP's ATTACCHMENT 4 - 6 - 41Y5225 33305D
DS4700 Mod 72 EXP's ATTACCHMENT 4 - 6 - 41Y0704 33389D
FC/SATA Enclosure Intermix (Required when intermixing FC and SATA Drive Enclosures) - 41Y5217 811985

NOTE: The EXP810 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#
4Gbps Fiber Drives
4Gbps FC, 36.4 GB/15K E-DDM  40K6812 33380D
4Gbps FC, 73.4 GB/15K E-DDM  40K6816 33381D
4Gbps FC, 146.8 GB/15K E-DDM  40K6820 33382D
2Gbps Fiber drives
2Gbps Fibre Channel, 36.4 GB/15K rpm E-DDM 40K6800 030095
2Gbps Fibre Channel, 73.4 GB/10K rpm E-DDM 39M4586 030035
2Gbps Fibre Channel, 73.4 GB/15K rpm E-DDM 40K6804 030096
2Gbps Fibre Channel, 146.8 GB/10K rpm E-DDM 39M4590 030036
2Gbps Fibre Channel, 146.8 GB/15K rpm E-DDM 40K6808 030097
2Gbps Fibre Channel, 300 GB/10K rpm E-DDM 39M4594 030037
SATA Drives ( Requires intermix License for EXP810) Note: Currently SATA and Fiber drives can't be mixed in the same EXP810.
2Gbps SATA, 500 GB/7.2K rpm E-DDM (supported in EXP810) 39M4554 89753D
FC/SATA Enclosure Intermix (Required when intermixing FC and SATA Drive Enclosures) 41Y5217 811985

Step 4: Add Host Kit

Description MFR# TD#
Note - Windows host kit is included with all models of DS4700
DS4700 LINUX/INTEL HOST KIT  41Y5178 33390D
DS4700 NOVELL NETWARE HOST KIT 41Y5180 33391D
DS4700 VMWARE ESX HOST KIT 41Y5182 89745D
DS4700 AIX HOST KIT 41Y5184 33392D
DS4700 SUN HOST KIT 41Y5186 33393D
DS4700 HP-UX HOST KIT 41Y5188 33394D
DS4700 LINUX on POWER HOST KIT 41Y5190 33395D

 

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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.

DS4700 FLASHCOPY ACTIVATION 41Y5203 33300D

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.

DS4700 VOLUMECOPY ACTIVATION 41Y5208 33301D
DS4700 FLASH / VOLUMECOPY ACTIVATION 41Y5212 33302D

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.

DS4700 ENHANCED REMOTE MIRROR ACTIVATION 41Y5214 33386D

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.

DS4700 UPGRADE FROM 2 TO 4 STORAGE PARTITIONS 70H model 41Y5228 33306D
DS4700 UPGRADE FROM 2 TO 8 STORAGE PARTITIONS  70H model 41Y0652 33397D
DS4700 UPGRADE FROM 4 TO 8 STORAGE PARTITIONS 41Y0656 33398D
DS4700 UPGRADE FROM 4 TO 16 STORAGE PARTITIONS 41Y0660 33399D
DS4700 UPGRADE FROM 8 TO 16 STORAGE PARTITIONS 41Y0664 33400D
DS4700 UPGRADE FROM 8 TO 64 STORAGE PARTITIONS 41Y0668 33401D
DS4700 UPGRADE FROM 16 TO 64 STORAGE PARTITIONS 41Y0672 33402D

1- DS4700 70H Comes standard with 2  storage Partitions
2- DS4700 72H Comes standard with 4  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 DS4700 70H 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

NOTE: The DS4700 72H 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 42V1564 97493D
3YR onsite repair 24x7x4 hour 42V1565 97440D
3YR onsite repair 24x7x2 hour 42V1566 97494D
5YR onsite repair 24x7x4 hour 42V1567 97495D
5YR onsite repair 24x7x2 hour 42V1568 97496D

(RTS) Phone support for the DS4700 24X7

Description  MFR# TD#
1YR Remote Technical Support for storage devices (DS4700, All Models) 39K2303 655256
3YR Remote Technical Support for storage devices (DS4700, All Models) 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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