© 2011 IBM Corporation Product positioning Jana Jamsek, ATS Europe

© 2011 IBM Corporation IBM Storage Systems DS8000  POWER6+ controllers (2-way and 4-way)  8 Gb/s host and device adapters  2.5” Enterprise SAS-2 drives  1056 drives in 3 racks  Maximum 384 GB cache  Total Resiliency  Managing Tiered storage  Connection to IBM i: –Natively –VIOS_NPIV –VIOS vscsi  Copy services – of IBM i entire disk space – of IBM i IASP

© 2011 IBM Corporation IBM Storage Systems DS8000  Appropriate for:  Big IBM i wokloads –Provides excellent performance with IBM i  Consolidating storage for many IBM i systems –Possibility of VIOS-NPIV and virtual FC adapters in IBM i  IBM i and other workloads sharing storage  Implementing tiered storage  Business continuity solutions for IBM i –Including Disaster Recovery solutions –Including BC solutions for many IBM i systems –Supported by PowerHA SystemMirror for i  Unified Business continuity solutions for IBM i and other systems

© 2011 IBM Corporation IBM Storage Systems DS5000  RAID controllers –Controllers - Custom ASIC with built-in hardware-assist for RAID  8 Gb and 4 Gb interfaces  Max 64 GB cache  Tired storage  Connection to IBM i: –Natively –VIOS_NPIV –VIOS vscsi  Copy services –of IBM i entire disk space – of IBM i IASP with limitations

© 2011 IBM Corporation IBM Storage Systems DS5000  Appropriate for:  Midrange and small IBM i workloads  IBM i customers with installed DS6000 may consider to change for DS5000  Customers with simple tiering requirements  Business continuity solutions –Automation may require additional services

© 2011 IBM Corporation IBM Storage Systems DS3500  RAID controllers  Max 2 GB cache  8 Gb FC interfaces to host  2.5” SAS drives  Small IBM i customers  IBM i in Blade center  Connection to IBM i with VIOS vscsi

© 2011 IBM Corporation IBM Storage Systems SAN Volume Controller  Virtualization of different Storage systems  2, 4, 6 or 8 node cluster  Up to 192GB cache per cluster  Internal SSD  Connects to IBM i with VIOS vscsi  Copy services supported with PowerHA SystemMirror for i *  Copy services of entire IBM i entire disk space * Planned GA November 2011

© 2011 IBM Corporation IBM Storage Systems San Volume Controller  Appropriate for:  Midrange and big IBM i customers  Sharing background storage among IBM i and other systems  Virtualizing heterogenous storage systems for IBM i and other servers  Implementing tiered storage  Business continuity solutions for IBM i –Supported by PowerHA SystemMirror for i *  High availability solution for IBM i disk storage  Unified Business continuity solutions for IBM i and other systems * Planned GA November 2011

© 2011 IBM Corporation IBM Storage Systems XIV  Data distribution across all drives  24GB System Cache / Module  Writes completed to two different data modules cache  12x 2TB SAS Drives  Infiniband ports for any to any Interface Module and Data Module connectivity  Connection to IBM i with VIOS vscsi

© 2011 IBM Corporation IBM Storage Systems XIV  Appropriate for:  Midrange and big IBM i workloads  Experienced excellent performance with IBM i transaction workloads  Archiving data for multiple IBM i systems  Business continuity solutions

© 2011 IBM Corporation IBM Storage Systems Storwize V7000  Disk drives –SSD, 15 K RPM SAS, 10 K RPM SAS, nearline  FC, iSCSI host interfaces  Easy Tier  Virtualization  Connects to IBM i with VIOS vscsi  Copy services supported with PowerHA SystemMirror for i *  Copy services of entire IBM i entire disk space

© 2011 IBM Corporation IBM Storage Systems Storwize V7000  Appropriate for:  Midrange to big customers  The customers with performance requirements (?)  Implementing tiered storage  Sharing storage among multiple IBM i systems  Shairng storage among IBM i and other systems  Copy services for IBM i business continuity solutions of IASP –PowerHA SystemMirror for i –ACS  Copy services for business continuity solutions of entire disk space