IBM System Storage DS8000 Series

WWR2 : IBM System Storage DS8000 Series

The IBM DS8000 family is a high-performance, high capacity, highly secure, and resilient series of disk storage systems. The DS8000 offers connectivity support across a broad range of server environments with the flexibility to easily partition the DS8000 storage capacity among the attached environments. It can help support storage consolidation requirements and dynamic environments. You can use the System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC) website to learn which DS8000 models and versions are available for specific platforms:

https://www.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/ssic

The following topics are covered in this section of the online help:

▪DS8000 Storage Capacity and Storage Arrays

▪DS8000 Disk Capacity

▪HPFE Gen2 considerations: DS8000 drives for HPFE Gen2 considerations

▪Capacity and performance modeling for the DS8000 Series

– “Adding a Product”

– “Project Product view”

– Tab 1 of 4: “System tab (modify name, device, and set model options)”

– Tab 2 of 4: “Adapters tab (set model options)”

– Tab 3 of 4: “Capacity tab (set model options)”

– Tab 4 of 4: “Report tab for a IBM DS8000 system”