IBM DS4500 (formerly FAStT900) delivers breakthrough disk performance and outstanding reliability for demanding applications in data-intensive computing environments. The DS4500 is designed to offer investment protection with advanced functions and flexible features. The DS4500 offers up to 67.2TB of fibre channel disk storage capacity with 16 EXP700s or 16 EXP710s.  DS4500 offers advanced replication services to support business continuance and disaster recovery. The DS4500 is an effective disk system for any enterprise seeking performance without borders.

Coupled with the EXP100, it allows you to configure RAID protected storage solutions of up to 89.6TB to help provide economical and scalable storage for your rapidly growing application needs for limited access, data reference, and near-line storage. 

Features

• Data protection with dual redundant components, multiple RAID levels, LUN masking and enhanced management options
• Investment protection throughout the DS4000 family of storage systems
• Support for intermix of EXP100 and EXP700 enclosures behind the DS4500, DS4400 and DS4300 Turbo, and DS4300 Dual
• Support for IBM AIX, Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Novell Netware, Sun Solaris , HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, VMWare, Linux IA64 Supports EXP700 or EXP100 drive
• Storage Consolidation for SAN, NAS and direct-attach environments