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IBM DS8000 Resiliency Video Hi, my name is Teena Werley. I work as a test engineer for IBM.

Over here we have a video streaming from this DS8000.

The first failure that I am going to introduce is a disk drive pull.

1 IBM DS8000 Resiliency Video Hi, my name is Teena Werley. I work as a test engineer for IBM. Today we are going to demonstrate the resiliency of the DS8000 product. Over here we have a video streaming from this DS8000. We re going to introduce a series of critical component failures and see if this video remains running. The first failure that I am going to introduce is a disk drive pull. As you can see, the video is still streaming. The second failure that we are going to introduce is on the Power Control Unit. I ll be pulling the circuit breaker on one of the two power control units. As you can see, the video is still streaming.

The third failure we are going to introduce is in the System Processor Complex. I am going to pull both power cables from the complex.

DS8000 failed, but the machine kept on running.

2 The third failure we are going to introduce is in the System Processor Complex. I am going to pull both power cables from the complex. As you can see, the video is still running. Once again we have demonstrated the resiliency of the DS8000 by introducing these three failures. Thank you. Legal Disclaimer (on-screen) The video you have just seen simulated one possible scenario where multiple components of the IBM System Storage DS8000 failed, but the machine kept on running. No storage system manufacturer can guarantee that a system will never suffer an outage because of a component failure, but the DS8000 is designed with resiliency in mind. Its use of redundant componentry can help keep the machine operating under a wide variety of scenarios involving single or multiple component failures. Let us explain further how the DS8000 s design can help keep it up and running.

IBM DS8000 3D Flythrough Video The IBM System Storage DS8000 is the result of a powerful convergence of storage and server technology.

information management. At the top of the unit, we find the disk drives.

easier than ever. The disks have dual point-to-point connections to backend switches.

3 IBM DS8000 3D Flythrough Video The IBM System Storage DS8000 is the result of a powerful convergence of storage and server technology. A look inside reveals that the DS8000 was designed with new functionality, extraordinary performance and high availability in mind all to help provide exceptional, low cost information management. At the top of the unit, we find the disk drives. The DS8000 supports a rich variety of dual-ported, server class drives using Fibre Channel and ATA disk drive technology, so balancing cost, capacity and performance is easier than ever. The disks have dual point-to-point connections to backend switches. This means that isolating port failures doesn t require time-consuming trialand-error techniques. At the heart of the DS8000, we find power a pair of IBM System p5 570 servers. Designed with enterpriseclass storage in mind, the servers offer groundbreaking capabilities, such as the Virtualization Engine, which is designed to let you run two separate virtual DS8000 systems from a single physical unit.

The POWER 5+ processors inside the p5 570 servers offer outstanding power, capability and scalability.

The system s cache resides in the memory of each of the servers, which helps provide powerful error correction and automatic repair capabilities.

State-of-the-art in I/O attachment, the fabric is designed to provide breakthrough bandwidth from each I/O bay to the unit s servers.

4 The POWER 5+ processors inside the p5 570 servers offer outstanding power, capability and scalability. Enormous L1, L2 and L3 cache capacity and simultaneous multithreading helps provide excellent through-put and responsiveness. The system s cache resides in the memory of each of the servers, which helps provide powerful error correction and automatic repair capabilities. And cache management software is designed to dynamically adapt to the changing nature of workload. Internally, the DS8000 uses IBM System p I/O fabric. State-of-the-art in I/O attachment, the fabric is designed to provide breakthrough bandwidth from each I/O bay to the unit s servers. In the lower portion of the unit, open system and mainframe servers can connect to DS8000 I/O ports on the host adapters. Each host adapter is an intelligent attachment designed to provide high performance processing and extra levels of data integrity protection with an advanced application-specific integrated circuit. Equipped with RAID adapters carrying their own high performance processors, the DS8000 is designed for optimized, balanced leadership performance.

You can pay-as-you-grow with DS8000 model to model upgradability.

5 The DS8000 is fully loaded with powerful features, allowing physical capacity to scale up to 512 terabytes. By leveraging the modular design of its expansion frames, up to 1,024 drives can be added. Its server based architecture can scale beyond a petabyte. You can pay-as-you-grow with DS8000 model to model upgradability. Adding disks, host I/O ports, processing power and cache size can help you realize new levels of investment protection, availability and performance. The IBM System Storage DS8000, empowering businesses to break through to a new era of low cost, on demand storage an era of unprecedented flexibility, performance, scalability and resiliency.

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