• Scalable—Designed for non-disruptive expansion to more than 1.1 petabytes (1.1 PB, or 1100 TB) storage capacity
• Versatile—Single, integrated architecture designed to support concurrent block I/O and file serving over Ethernet and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructures
• Efficient consolidation—Intended to provide storage for multiple applications in a single system with FlexShare™ to ensure that critical workloads get priority service
• Application availability—N7000 systems with Data ONTAP® enable application-level recovery in minutes, not hours, upon failure or user error
• Performance—Delivers high, consistent performance for mission-critical applications

The challenge: Managing data for business advantage

In an increasingly demanding and competitive business landscape, effective data management is essential to the success of the enterprise. Data availability from any location gives employees, partners and customers the up-to-the-minute information they need to work productively, make timely decisions and meet business goals. Information technology professionals facing these challenges are under pressure to deliver more capacity and at higher levels of service. Yet critical resources—staffing, budget, power, cooling and floor space—are often constrained.

These demands call for enterprise-class storage systems with the flexibility to support changing IT requirements, accommodate continuous data growth, satisfy application-level service requirements and unify SAN and NAS infrastructures with the expectation of reducing overall costs.

The solution: IBM System Storage N7000 series

The IBM System Storage™ N7000 series systems are intended to help IT organizations tackle the challenge of effective data management using virtualization technology and a unified storage architecture. The N7000 series is designed to deliver high-end enterprise storage and data management value with midrange affordability. Built-in enterprise serviceability and manageability features help support your efforts to increase reliability, simplify and unify storage infrastructure and maintenance, and deliver exceptional economy.

The N7000 series, like all N series systems, provides powerful virtualization and thin-provisioning capabilities designed to maximize storage utilization and staff productivity while minimizing the use of power, cooling and floor space. Staff productivity can be enhanced by an integrated suite of application-aware manageability software that can provide policy-based automation to otherwise manual tasks.

The IBM N7000 series is designed to provide remarkable versatility by unifying FC SAN, iSCSI SAN, NAS, primary, nearline and regulatory compliance data retention and archival storage in a single integrated architecture. N series systems are designed for easy installation, configuration, management and expansion. The combination of versatility and simplicity of N series systems is intended to help IT professionals respond quickly to changing business needs.

The N7000 series combines the benefits of a unified storage architecture suite of application-aware software with massive scalability, which is intended to provide an ideal platform for large-scale data center applications and storage consolidations.

Common features		Hardware summary
Simultaneous multiprotocol support for FCP, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, HTTP, FTP File- and block-level service in a single system Upgrade up to 1.176 PB of physical capacity while avoiding service disruption Support for Fibre Channel and SATA disk drives Data ONTAP® software 16 TB maximum volume size Broad range of built-in features Multiple supported backup methods including disk- and host-based backup and tape backup to direct, SAN and GbE attached tape devices		Up to 1.176 PB raw storage capacity 16 GB to 64 GB ECC memory 512 MB to 4 GB nonvolatile memory Up to 52 full-duplex 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet ports Up to 56 4-Gbps Fibre Channel ports 10-GbE adapter card (optional) Quad-port 4-Gbps adapters (optional) Dual FC LVD SCSI Tape adapter Dual redundant hot-plug integrated cooling fans and auto-ranging power supplies 19' rack-mount enclosure

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