The DS4300 Turbo is a mid-level storage server that can scale to over sixteen terabytes, facilitating storage consolidation for medium-sized customers. It uses the latest in storage networking technology to provide an end-to-end 2 Gbps Fibre Channel solution. As part of the IBM FAStT family, the Model 600 with Turbo uses the same common storage management software and high performance hardware design, providing customers with enterprise like capabilities found in high end models, but at a much lower cost.

The new FAStT Storage Manager v8.4 enables up to 256 logical volumes (LUNs) per storage partition, definition of array groups greater than 2TB, and SCSI-3 Persisitent Reservation. FlashCopy with VolumeCopy, a new function for a complete logical volume copy within the FAStT Storage Server is available on the DS4300 Turbo, DS4400, and DS4500. 

Product Highlights:

• Provides four 2Gb Fibre Channel host ports designed to economically support multipath failover for directly attached UNIX ® and Intel ® processor-based clustered Servers.
• Supports up to 42 hard disk drives and scales to more than 6TB of capacity.
• Includes failover drivers for Microsoft ® Windows ® 2000 and optional support for AIX ®, Sun ™ Solaris ™ ,HP-UX and other Intel processor-based platforms, including the Novell Netware and Linux operating systems.
• Designed to deliver high perfor mance of up to 400MB/sec.
• Facilitates storage consolidation in Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and direct-attach environments.
• Includes FAStT Storage Manager to help centrally manage all FAStT storage subsystems.
• Can help improve service response time with automated alerts from the optional FAStT Service Alert feature.