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N series System
All N series systems utilize a single operating system across the entire platform and offer a combination
of multiple advanced function software features that provide one of the industrys most multifaceted
storage platforms, ranging from comprehensive system management, storage management, onboard
and outboard copy services, virtualization technologies and disaster recovery and backup solutions.
In addition, optional WORM data protection software provides additional data
security in regulatory environments where data must be stored in nonerasable and non-rewritable formats to meet the industry's newest and strict
regulatory requirements for retaining company data assets.
The N series portfolio of products offer ease-of-use tools that help customers
manage database environments like Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL
Server, IBM DB2 and Oracle. Patented RAID-DP helps ensure the highest
availability and data loss prevention while using inexpensive SATA disk drive
technology.
Model (1)
N3700
N5200
N5500
N5600
N7600
N7800
2863-A10
2863-A20
2864-A10
2864-A20
2865-A10
2865-A20
2868-A10
2868-A20
2866A10
2866A20
2867A10
2867A20
Storage
Controllers
Highlights
Active/Active
Installation - offers installation tools designed to help simplify installation and setup
Increased Access - allows heterogeneous access to IP attached storage and fibre channel
attached storage subsystems
Flexibility - enables cross-platform file sharing for Microsoft Windows, UNIX and Linux
environments that can help reduce network complexity and expense, and allow data to be
shared across the organization
IP SAN - support iSCSI protocols for IP SAN attached to a multitude of host servers including
Microsoft Windows, Linux, and UNIX systems
Scalability - supports non-disruptive capacity increases as well as thin provisioning (dynamically
allow the increase and decrease of user capacity assignments)
Manageability - includes integrated system diagnostics and management tools, which are
designed to help minimize downtime
Redundancy - several redundancy and hot-swappable features provide the highest system
availability characteristics
Copy Services - provides extensive outboard services that help recover data in disaster
recovery environments
NearStore (near-line) Storage (3) - SATA drive technology enables on-line and quick access to
archived and non-intensive transactional data
WORM data protection - software and hardware features that offer non-erasable and nonrewritable data protection to meet the industry's highest regulatory requirements for retaining
company data assets
Maximum raw
capacity
Processors (2)
FC disk drives
16 TB
84 TB
168 TB
252 TB
420 TB (5)
504 TB (5)
Two
Broadcom
MIPS-based
Four 1.8GHz
AMD Dualcore 64-bit
Opteron
Eight 2.6
GHz AMD
Opteron
SATA disk
drives
Expansion
Units
Host
Connectivity &
Platform
Support
The N series systems support a multitude of host attachment capabilities via FCP, CIFS, NFS and
iSCSI protocols. See product Interoperability Matrix at www.ibm.com/storage/nas for more
information.
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N5200
N5500
N5600
N7600
N7800
NFS V2/V3/V4 over UDP or TCP,PCNFSD V1/V2 for (PC) NFS client authentication, Microsoft CIFS,
iSCSI, FCP, VLD, HTTP 1.0, HTTP1.1 Virtual Host
Other Protocol
Support
Operating
System
Data ONTAP
7.1 or later
Data ONTAP
7.1 or later
Data ONTAP
7.1 or later
Data ONTAP
7.2
Data ONTAP
7.2
Data ONTAP
7.2
Onboard I/O
Ports (2)
Two optical
FC ports
Four 1Gbps
Ethernet
Eight 2Gbps
FC
Eight 1Gbps
Ethernet
Eight 2Gbps
FC
Eight 1Gbps
Ethernet
Eight 2Gbps
FC
Eight 1Gbps
Ethernet
Sixteen
2Gbps FC
Twelve
1Gbps
Ethernet
Sixteen
2Gbps FC
Twelve
1Gbps
Ethernet
PCI expansion
slots (2)
NA
16
16
NFS
Performance (2)
13,620 IO/sec
34,089 IO/sec
47,927 IO/sec
NVRAM (2)
256 MB
1 GB
1 GB
1 GB
1 GB
4 GB
Memory (2)
2 GB
4 GB
8 GB
16 GB
32 GB
64 GB
85,615
IO/sec
100,295
IO/sec
136,048
IO/sec
Data Protection
Redundancy /
High availability
Backup
System
management
Storage
management
Standard
software
Snapshot, FlexVol, Integrated Automatic RAID Manager**, Fast Boot, NIS, DNS, SNMP, FilerView,
Disk Sanitization(3), NDMP, LDAP, iSCSI, FlexShare(4), SyncMirror
Optional
software
CIFS Protocol, NFS Protocol, HTTP Protocol, FCP Protocol, Clustered Failover, FlexClone, MultiStore,
SnapLock Compliance(3), SnapLock Enterprise, LockVault Compliance(3), LockVault Enterprise,
SnapMirror, SnapMover, SnapRestore, SnapVault, Open Systems SnapVault, SnapDrive for Windows,
SnapDrive for UNIX: AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, SnapValidator, SnapManager for Exchange; SQL Server &
Oracle, Single Mailbox Recovery for Exchange, Operations Manager, MetroCluster
Notes
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Model A10 = Single Storage Controller & Model A20 = Dual Clustered Storage Controller
All values are based on dual clustered storage controllers
Not available on Gateway Models or function is limited or dependent on attached storage subsystem
Only available with Data ONTAP 7.2
Maximum TBs on single controller system (A10) is 336TB
Files
IP
IP
Windows
clients
NFS Protocol
Files
IP
IP
UNIX &
Linux
clients
iSCSI Protocol
UNIX, Linux
& Windows
servers
Blocks
IP
IP
Blocks
UNIX, Linux
& Windows
servers
FC
SAN
N series
FTP Protocol
IP
IP
FCP Protocol
Files
UNIX,
Linux &
Windows
servers
UNIX,
Linux &
Windows
clients
SnapRestore
SnapMirror
Source
Target
IP
SyncMirror
FC
Plex0
Plex1
RAID Groups
RAID Groups
SnapLock
LockVault
AppleWorksMac.pdf
Microsoft Excel
Worksheet
Near-line
Microsoft Word Secondary
Storage
Document
Near-line
DR Target
FlexVol
Without FlexVol, application is
limited to preassigned space
Application is free
to grab more
space if needed
Allows administrator to create multiple flexible volumes across a large pool of disks.
Dynamic, non-disruptive storage (thin) provisioning; space- and time-efficiency.
Allows users to get more space dynamically and non-disruptively.
Enables more productive use of available storage and helps improve performance.
FlexClone
Designed to provide instant replication of
data volumes/sets without requiring
additional storage space at the time of
creation.
Allows IT administrator to make a backup
copy of a database and then modify and
run testing against test (backup) database
without affecting or taking the on-line
database off-line.
User writes
new data to
clone copy
FlexClone
Snapshot
New production
writes
Flexible Volume
base production data)
Fibre Channel
or
IP (iSCSI, NFS)
IP
IP
SnapManager
SnapValidator
validates the data
against the protection
information
SnapDrive
Usability aid for iSCSI & FCP environments
With SnapDrive you add, delete, map, unmap, and mirror virtual
disks online. You can expand capacity on-the-fly with no impact to
application or system performance.
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Logical partitioning
Windows
clients
UNIX
clients
Linux
clients
SnapMover
Local data migration solution for optimizing workloads
across N series sharing a common disk array.
Allows you to migrate ownership of a volume from one
controller to another in the cluster with a single
command.
Allows for better resource utilization and performance
amongst multiple N series devices
MultiStore and Clustering are prerequisites
RAID-DP
N series
Clustered
N series
Clustered
P DP
Traditional single-parity RAID technology offers protection from a single failed disk drive.
The expectation is that no other disk fails nor uncorrectable bit errors not occur during a read operation while
reconstruction of the failed disk is still in progress.
If either event occurs during reconstruction, then some or all data contained in the RAID array or volume could be lost.
With modern larger disk media, the likelihood of an uncorrectable bit error is fairly high, since disk capacities have
increased but bit error rates have stayed the same.
The ability of traditional single-parity RAID to protect data is being stretched beyond its limits.
Application Cluster
with N series
clustering
N series
Transparent failover: end users are not impacted by a failover; clients continue to
access data the same way after a failover.
Active/active configuration; both clustered controllers are doing useful work; no
resources sit idle waiting for a failover to occur
Disk
Volumes
N series
SMBR
Software
Exchange
Server
This makes recovery of a single users mailbox extremely cumbersome and in most cases impossible unless
there is some brick-level backup software in place.
With SMBR, no brick-level (transaction level) backup is required.
SMBR can extract a single mailbox or email directly and rapidly from an Exchange Information Store.
SnapVault
Blocks
IP
N series
primary storage
N series
Near-line storage
(OSSV)
Windows Servers
Disk Sanitization
Disk with
Data
1234
5678
9
Disk
sanitized
IP
.
2
UNIX / Linux
Servers
N series
10
Data ONTAP maintains a fixed upper limit for concurrent SnapMirror and SnapVault transfers
based on the type of disks the system has attached.
Concurrent operations allow multiple data streams between two N series devices for the purpose of
backup, data protection, disaster preparedness
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Windows
Servers
2
Priority mechanism to give
preferential treatment to a
higher priority tasks
MetroCluster
Extends Clustered Failover capabilities from primary to a remote
site
Replicates data from the primary site to the remote site to ensure
that data there is completely up-to-date and available
If Site A goes down, MetroCluster allows you to rapidly resume
operations at a remote site minutes after a disaster.
Stretch MetroCluster provides a disaster recovery option at
distances up to 500 meters between each N series system.
Available on N5000 & N7000 Models Axx
Site B
Stretch
Fabric
X
Vol-X
Ym
Mirrored Vol-Y
Xm
Mirrored Vol-X
Y
Vol-Y
FilerView
IT Administrator
IP
IP
N series
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Mixture of
Windows, UNIX, Linux
A single Gateway allows UNIX, Linux and Windows file access to FC SAN
Clients
&
Servers
storage through a single portal
Potentially reducing the number of servers required for accessing
SAN storage in mixed-protocol environments
The Gateway offers the same advanced features and functions as the N
series appliance (exceptions: RAID4, RAID-DP, SnapLock Compliance,
LockVault Compliance, Disk Sanitization, Near-Line Bundle)
IP & FC
Connecting small inexpensive servers to premium priced SAN storage is N series
very costly.
Gateway
FC HBAs, FC switch ports costs could exceed the actual cost of
FC
server
A single Gateway extends the reach of SAN storage to many servers
attached to an IP network
HDS
HP
IBM
Potentially reducing overall connection costs
Multi vendor storage
Allowing access to SAN storage at extended distances
subsystems
Consolidating server footprints
Reducing number of servers
A Gateway bring the advanced functionality of N series technology to other vendor storage subsystems
A Gateway provides increased investment protection in SAN storage by increasing utilization & accessibility
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N3700
Axx
N5x00
Axx
N5x00
Gxx
N7x00
Axx
N7x00
Gxx
Data ONTAP
Included
iSCSI protocol
Included
FTP protocol
Included
NDMP protocol
Included
FlexVol
Included
Snapshot
Included
SecureAdmin
Included
Included
Included
Included
SyncMirror
Included
CIFS protocol
Optional
NFS protocol
Optional
HTTP protocol
Optional
FCP protocol
Optional
FlexClone
Optional
Clustered Failover
Optional
Optional
SnapMirror
Optional
SnapRestore
Optional
Optional
SnapVault
Optional
Optional
SnapValidator
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
SnapLock Enterprise
Optional
LockVault Enterprise
Optional
Optional
RPQ only
RPQ only
Disk Sanitization
Included
SnapLock Compliance
Optional
LockVault Compliance
Optional
Optional
RAID4, RAID-DP
Included
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