IBM Europe Announcement ZG , dated October 23, 2007

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1 IBM Europe Announcement ZG , dated October 23, 2007 IBM System Storage DS4000 series enriched with RAID 6 support, and new upgrade features for FlashCopy, Enhanced Remote Mirroring, and storage partitioning HVEC Description...2 Overview System Storage DS4000 series midrange disk storage offerings of high-performance, high-availability, business-critical storage solutions have been enhanced with new software functions and features now available in DS4000 Storage Manager V Storage Manager V10.10 and associated controller firmware version (7.10) are now available for the DS4800 Midrange Disk System, DS4700 Express Models and the Express Model 7V, and includes the following enhancements: RAID 6 support on the DS4700 Express Models and Model 7V Read with parity check Support for greater than 2 TB volumes on selected supported operating systems 8 KB cache block size Increased number of drives per volume group on RAID 0 and RAID 10 Proactive drive health monitoring Improved VSS provider integration Increased number of host logins Additionally, several new optional features are available with Storage Manager V10.10: Upgrade up to 16 FlashCopies per volume on the DS4800 Upgrade up to 8 FlashCopies per volume on the DS4700 and Upgrade up to 128 Enhanced Remote Mirror pairs on the DS4800 Upgrade up to 64 Enhanced Remote Mirror pairs on the DS4700 and Increments of up to 512 storage partitions on the DS4800 Increments of up to 128 storage partitions on the DS4700 and DS4800 Model 80 Enhanced Performance Activation option Key prerequisites Storage Manager V10.10 software enhancements and associated controller firmware version (07.10) apply to the following DS4000 series products: IBM Europe Announcement ZG IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 1

2 Express Model 7V (1814-7VH) DS4700 Express Models 70, 70-DC, ( H, T, H, T) DS4800 Midrange Disk System Models 80, 82, ( H, H, H, and H) Planned availability date February 8, 2008 Description DS4000 Storage Manager DS4000 Storage Manager software is used to configure and manage the DS4000 series midrange disk systems and is composed of host-based and controller-based software components. The Storage Manager is used during initial installation and ongoing normal system maintenance to perform such tasks as configuring RAID arrays and logical drives, assigning logical drives to hosts, replacing and rebuilding failed disk drives if required, expanding the size of arrays and logical drives, and converting from one RAID level to another. It is also used to perform management tasks such as checking and monitoring DS4000 controller components, updating the controller firmware, and other DS4000 controller management tasks. Storage Manager also provides the DS4000 series midrange disk systems with optional, advanced copy service features, including FlashCopy, VolumeCopy, and Enhanced Remote Mirroring. DS4000 Storage Manager V10.10 enhancements Storage Manager V10.10 and associated controller firmware version (07.10) are available for the DS4800 Midrange Disk System, DS4700 Express Models, and Express Model 7V. Storage Manager V10.10 includes the following functional enhancements: RAID 6 support for DS4700 and RAID 6 technology is designed to provide improved data protection against multiple disk drive failures. (refer to the Limitations section for further details) Read with parity check Support for greater than 2 TB volumes on selected operating systems (refer to the Limitations section for further details) 8K cache block size Increased number of drives per volume group on RAID 0 and RAID 10 Proactive drive health monitoring Improved VSS provider integration Increased number of host logins Additionally, Storage Manager V10.10 includes several upgrade enhancements to FlashCopy and Enhanced Remote Mirroring advanced copy service features, as well as additional storage partitioning features. Upgrades enhancements to the FlashCopy features The FlashCopy advanced copy feature has been enhanced with an upgrade feature to provide an increased number of FlashCopy images per volume on the DS4800, DS4700 and disk systems. The FlashCopy feature is designed to provide the ability to perform a point-in-time copy of a logical drive to support data protection and backup needs. IBM Europe Announcement ZG IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 2

3 Either the FlashCopy option or the FlashCopy/VolumeCopy option is a prerequisite to the installation of the FlashCopy upgrade features. The following are the new optional FlashCopy upgrade features available with Storage Manager V10.10: DS4800 FlashCopy 4-16 FC Upgrade (44X2431) Increases the number of FlashCopy images per volume from 4 to 16 on all models of the DS4800 DS4700 FlashCopy 4-8 FC Upgrade (#7313)/SEO or Option (44X2430) Increases the number of FlashCopy images per volume from 4 to 8 on all models of the DS4700 FlashCopy 4-8 FC Upgrade (#7333)/SEO or Option (44X2429) Increases the number of FlashCopy images per volume from 4 to 8 on all models of the Upgrade enhancements to the Enhanced Remote Mirroring features The Enhanced Remote Mirroring features have been enhanced to double the number of remote mirroring pairs previously available on the DS4800, DS4700 and disk systems. The Enhanced Remote Mirroring feature is designed to help maintain data access in the event of a disaster or unrecoverable error on a DS4000 system. It is designed to achieve this by maintaining two copies of a data set in two different locations, on two or more different DS4000 systems, and enabling a second DS4000 system to take over the responsibility. The base Enhanced Remote Mirroring option is required prior to installation of the upgrade feature. The following are the new Enhanced Remote Mirroring features enabled by Storage Manager V10.10: DS4800 Enhanced Remote Mirroring Mirrors Upgrade (44E5380) Doubles the number of remote mirrors that can be configured on a DS4800 Model 80, 82, from 64 to 128 mirrors DS4700 Enhanced Remote Mirroring Mirrors Upgrade (#7316)/SEO or option (44E5447) Doubles the number of remote mirrors that can be configured on a DS4700 Model 70, Model 70-DC, Model 72, and Model 72-DC from 32 to 64 mirrors Enhanced Remote Mirroring Mirrors Upgrade (#7336)/SEO or option (44E5435) Doubles the number of remote mirrors that can be configured on a Model 7V from 32 to 64 mirrors Enhancements to the storage partition features New storage partition features are available that double the number of storage partitions previously available on the DS4800, DS4700 and disk systems. The storage partition features add a high level of flexibility to the DS4000 disk system. It enables you to connect multiple and heterogeneous host systems to a DS4000. The storage partition features determine the number of hosts or host clusters that can access storage on a DS4000 disk system. The following are the new storage partition features enabled by Storage Manager V10.10: DS to 32 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES (44E5460) Upgrades from 8 storage partitions to 32 storage partitions on DS4800 Models 80, 82, 84, and 88 DS to 32 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES (44E5461) Upgrades from 16 storage partitions to 32 storage partitions on DS4800 Models 80, 82, 84, IBM Europe Announcement ZG IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 3

4 and 88 DS to 64 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES (44E5462) Upgrades from 32 storage partitions to 64 storage partitions on DS4800 Models 80, 82, 84, and 88 DS to 128 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES (44E5463) Upgrades from 32 storage partitions to 128 storage partitions on DS4800 Models 80, 82, DS to 128 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES (44E5464) Upgrades from 64 storage partitions to 128 storage partitions on DS4800 Models 80, 82, DS to 256 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES (44E5465) Upgrades from 64 storage partitions to 256 storage partitions on DS4800 Models 80, 82, DS to 256 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES (44E5466) Upgrades from 128 storage partitions to 256 storage partitions on DS4800 Models 80, 82, DS to 512 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES (44E5467) Upgrades from 128 storage partitions to 512 storage partitions on DS4800 Models 80, 82, DS to 512 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES (44E5468) Upgrades from 256 storage partitions to 512 storage partitions on DS4800 Models 80, 82, DS to 32 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES, SEO or option (44E5448) Upgrades from 8 storage partitions to 32 storage partitions on DS4700 Models 70, 70-DC, DS to 32 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES, SEO or option (44E5449) Upgrades from 16 storage partitions to 32 storage partitions on DS4700 Models 70, 70-DC, DS to 64 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES, SEO or option (44E5450) Upgrades from 32 storage partitions to 64 storage partitions on DS4700 Models 70, 70-DC, DS to 128 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES, SEO or option (44E5451) Upgrades from 32 storage partitions to 128 storage partitions on DS4700 Models 70, 70-DC, DS to 128 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES, SEO or option (44E5452) Upgrades from 64 storage partitions to 128 storage partitions on DS4700 Models 70, 70-DC, 8 to 32 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES, SEO or option (44E5436) Upgrades from 8 storage partitions to 32 storage partitions on a Model 7V 16 to 32 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES, SEO or option (44E5437) Upgrades from 16 storage partitions to 32 storage partitions on a Model 7V 32 to 64 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES, SEO or option (44E5438) Upgrades from 32 storage partitions to 64 storage partitions on a Model 7V 32 to 128 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES, SEO or option (44E5439) Upgrades from 32 storage partitions to 128 storage partitions on a Model 7V 64 to 128 Storage Partitions Upgrade-MES, SEO or option (44E5440) IBM Europe Announcement ZG IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 4

5 Upgrades from 64 storage partitions to 128 storage partitions on a Model 7V DS4800 Model 80 Enhanced Performance Activation DS4800 Model 80 Enhanced Performance Activation (44E5459) option is designed to provide enhanced storage server processing capability internally within the DS4800 Model 80 controller. With the Enhanced Performance Activation option, the DS4800 Model 80 is designed to provide the equivalent storage server processing capability as the DS4800 Model 82 controller. Accessibility by people with disabilities A U.S. Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) containing details on the products accessibility compliance can be requested at Trademarks DS4000 and System Storage are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. FlashCopy is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative, or visit the IBM worldwide contacts page at: IBM Europe Announcement ZG IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 5