IBM SYSTEM STORAGE DS5000 user manual

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IBM System Storage
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Optimizing VMware Virtualization
Solutions With IBM System Storage
DS4000 and DS5000
DS5000 Solutions Guide
The Benefits of Virtualization on one or more shared processors. The IBM DS4000 and DS5000 series
Building a virtualized enterprise Virtual Machines can be shifted offers additional capabilities that go
with VMware Infrastructure reduces between physical servers in a beyond what other disk storage systems
VMware resource pool with no can provide in a VMware I

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• Extensive upgradability , impr essive DS4700, DS4800 and DS5000 to further tune performance. scalability. The DS4000/DS5000 disk storage systems support an The advanced availability features series is a modular family of disk intermix of high performance Fibre of the DS4000 Series can help raise storage systems that has a common Channel drives and high capacity Virtual Machine service levels in a management interface, uses a SATA drives, enabling tiered storage VMware I

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storage management. Minimize run on Virtual Machines with the number of disk storage DS4000 and DS5000 Dynamic ® systems required even as your Capacity Expansion, Dynamic VMware capacity and performance RAID Level Migration and Dynamic needs increase—thus cutting Segment Size Migration. storage acquisition costs and © Copyright IBM Corporation 2008 recurring costs for maintenance, Contribute to the availability of IBM USA floor space, power and cooling. your V