The IBM TotalStorage DS8000 series offers high-capacity storage systems that are designed to deliver performance, scalability, resiliency and value. The DS8000 storage unit provides a variety of host attachments so that you can consolidate storage capacity and workloads for open-systems hosts, S/390 hosts, and eServer also zSeries hosts.

Features

• Exceptional flexibility and scalability
• Storage capacity of the DS8000 series system can range from 1.1TB to 192TB of physical capacity, and it has an architecture designed to scale over a petabyte
• Fibre-channel adapters, for support of fibre-channel protocol (FCP) and fibre connection (FICON)protocol

• Enterprise Systems Connection Architecture (ESCON) adapters