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GCOS 8 Session
TechSem 2001 Paris, March 28-30
Storage Offer Evolution Pascal MORET, Product
Marketing
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Current Disk Offer

• CDA 8400 / CDA 8700

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Current Disk Offer

• Up to now CDA 8400/8700 with Micro code 5566
• 36 GB HDAs
• RAID 1 and RAID S available
• No more FIPS host connections
• New approach for software commercialization
• Price per cabinet based on raw capacity
• 12 levels of price for ESP and SRDF
• No price change for TimeFinder

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CDA 8400 / 8700 Performance Enhancements

• Four system busses
• Increased bandwidth from 720MB/sec to 1440MB/sec
• Reduced bus contention
• More I/O's per second
• Power PC processors on all directors
• Raw processor power increased 8 times
• Faster protocol processing for SCSI, ESCON, FC
  and disk directors
• More power for applications running on Symmetrix
  (SRDF, TimeFinder,)
• Symmetrix 5 disk drives
• 10,000 RPM
• Faster access to data, improved data transfer rate

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CDA 8400 Feature Summary

• Up to 96 3.5 36 GB 10K RPM disks
• RAID 1 Capacity - 286 to 1718 GB
• RAID S Capacity - 429 to 2577 GB
• SRDF Raw - Up to 3437 GB

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CDA 8400 Architecture
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CDA 8700 Feature Summary

• Up to 384 36GB 10K RPM disks
• RAID 1 Capacity - 573 to 6873 GB
• RAID S Capacity - 859 to 10310 GB
• SRDF Raw - Up to 13747 GB

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CDA 8700 Architecture
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Disk Offer Evolution

• New Micro code 5567
• 73 GB available - RAID 1 only
• Any Size Disk mandatory
• Price ratio is 1.6
• ESCON Channel Adapter with 4 I/Os
• Software enhancements
• TimeFinder ( TF8 extension 3Q 2001)
• Multi BCV
• Instant Split
• SRDF
• over Fibre Channel, over IP Network

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Current Tape Offer

• One drive STK9840 - 20GB - 10MB/s
• Two implementations
• MS8 SCSI and FC
• GCOS Channel connections ESCON
• Three automatizations
• STK9740 or L700
• PowderHorn supports Multimedia config
• Loader 7 cartridges
• Storage consolidation is recommended

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Tape evolution - MS8

• MS8 V2 A state of the Art Offer!
• Configuration Evolution using FC
• New library L700
• New cache disk
• Customer Satisfaction
• Beta site with STK9840 and Dual Copy
• Using new technologies As Before
• Sharing with the Open World
• Non standard offer but available with SPR

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Tape evolution - GCOS connection

• Today ESCON connection
• STK9840
• ESCD compatible
• Tomorrow Fiber Channel
• STK9840 FC
• Switch Brocade
• Libraries accept a mix of ESCON and FC drives
• But there is No upgrade from ESCON to FC drive

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The STK9840 - FC Tape Drive

• A standard STK9840 with a fibre channel
  interface
• Drive is available in
• Large Silos - 9310
• Mid range libraries
• Standalone
• Raven -Tape standard

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Summary

• GCOS 8 ready to use State of the Art
  technologies
• Larger Capacities for tape and disks
• Cost effective Storage solutions due to sharing
  of ESCON / FC connections