The IBM DS4000 EXP710 Express offers a Fibre Channel storage solution designed to support high availability and reliability, point-in-time copying and volume copying for disaster recovery, as well as synchronous and asynchronous mirroring options. The DS400 EXP710 has capabilities such as Dynamic Capacity Expansion which allows you to add drives to existing volume groups. It also brings improved reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) capabilities to an entry-level storage server.

Features

When attached to a DS4000 disk system, the DS4000 EXP710 Expansion Unit Express Model is designed to:

• Deliver leading-edge performance and productivity
• Provide cost-effective flexibility and scalability
• Dynamic Capacity Expansion which allows you to add drives to existing volume groups
• Brings improved reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) capabilities to an entry-level storage server
• Offer unique DACstore, which stores configuration metadata on every disk drive to help data remain intact