IBM FlashSystem 5000 Family Products

Book description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides an introduction and overview of the latest products in the IBM FlashSystem® 5000 Family, including their hardware and software features.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. Preface
    1. Authors
    2. Now you can become a published author, too
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction
  5. Chapter 2. IBM FlashSystem 5000 and 5100 family hardware overview
    1. 2.1 Portfolio simplification
    2. 2.2 Hardware comparison overview of the IBM FlashSystem 5000 and 5100
    3. 2.3 FlashSystem 5000
      1. 2.3.1 Hardware Overview for the FlashSystem 5010
      2. 2.3.2 Hardware overview for a FlashSystem 5030
    4. 2.4 FlashSystem 5100
      1. 2.4.1 Model 4H4 supported hardware
      2. 2.4.2 Supported fabric protocols
      3. 2.4.3 Host Interface Cards
      4. 2.4.4 On board ports
  6. Chapter 3. Software features
    1. 3.1 IBM Spectrum Virtualize software
    2. 3.2 Feature set comparison
    3. 3.3 Licensing
      1. 3.3.1 FlashSystem 5100 licenses (enclosure-based)
      2. 3.3.2 FlashSystem 5000 licenses (key-based)
      3. 3.3.3 Encryption license (key-based)
    4. 3.4 Storage migration and management
      1. 3.4.1 Data migration using the External Virtualization feature
      2. 3.4.2 External storage virtualization
      3. 3.4.3 Managing internal storage
    5. 3.5 Features for storage efficiency and data reduction
      1. 3.5.1 Easy Tier
      2. 3.5.2 Data reduction and unmap
      3. 3.5.3 Fully allocated and thin-provisioned volumes
      4. 3.5.4 Compression and deduplication
    6. 3.6 Features for enhanced data security
    7. 3.7 Copy services and HyperSwap
      1. 3.7.1 Volume mirroring
      2. 3.7.2 FlashCopy
      3. 3.7.3 Remote mirroring
      4. 3.7.4 HyperSwap
    8. 3.8 Features for application integration
      1. 3.8.1 Virtual Volumes
    9. 3.9 Features for manageability
      1. 3.9.1 The FlashSystem family system GUI
      2. 3.9.2 IBM Call home
      3. 3.9.3 IBM Storage Insights
  7. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. IBM FlashSystem 5000 publications and support
    3. Help from IBM
  8. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: IBM FlashSystem 5000 Family Products
  • Author(s): Jon Tate, Frank Enders, Sergey Kubin
  • Release date: March 2020
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738458007