- Heterogeneous unified storage environment—Unified access for multiprotocol storage environments
- Versatile—Integrated architecture to support concurrent block I/O and file serving over Ethernet and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructures, helping to optimize investment protection and ROI
- Storage consolidation—Designed to enable organizations to consolidate UNIX®, Linux®, Windows® and Web workloads with existing SAN storage
- Comprehensive software suite—Designed to provide robust system management, copy services, virtualization technologies and disaster recovery and backup capabilities across all SAN resources
Improving storage utilization and access
As enterprise storage requirements evolved from direct-attached to networked storage, many enterprises made significant investments in multiple storage architectures—direct-attached storage (DAS), storage area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS)—to support the different access methods required by various business solutions. The result was often inefficient and underutilized storage environments. A critical IT management challenge is to optimize the use of existing storage to improve efficiency and return on investment (ROI) while continuing to support different access methods for different business solutions throughout the enterprise.
You may not be ready to replace existing storage systems with new, unified ones. Instead, you might be looking for ways to broaden the use of current infrastructure and improve return on investment by provisioning SAN capacity for new business solutions requiring FCP, iSCSI or NAS access and remote access.
IBM System Storage N series Gateway
The IBM System Storage® N series Gateway product line is a network-based unified storage solution designed to provide Internet Protocol (IP) and Fibre Channel (FC) protocol access to SAN-attached heterogeneous storage arrays. The N6000 and N7000 series systems ordered with a Gateway feature code can help you make the most of the dynamic provisioning capabilities of Data ONTAP™ software across your existing Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure to support an expanded set of business applications. The IBM N series Gateway is based on the Data ONTAP microkernel operating system, which is designed to unify block and file storage networking paradigms under a common architecture. The N series Gateway offers a comprehensive suite of advanced data management capabilities designed to help you consolidate, protect and recover mission-critical data for enterprise applications and users.
The IBM N series Gateway is designed to deliver the performance and capacity to meet access requirements for enterprises of all sizes. N series Gateway systems are intended to deliver industry-leading performance, offer terabytes of managed capacity, and be configured for simultaneous active/active access with secure failover across two independent systems in a cluster
The N6000 and N7000 series Gateway product lines support the attachment to both N series EXN1000, EXN3000 and EXN4000 disk storage expansion units; IBM Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS) series, IBM XIV® Storage System, IBM System Storage DS8000® and DS4000® series; as well as a broad range of EMC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, 3PAR and HP storage subsystems. You can now take advantage of the N series Gateway capabilities to help improve business efficiency and reduce data management complexity with a variety of storage subsystems.
N7000 series Gateways
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