Our 5884 storage system delivers high-speed performance ideally suited for open systems primary storage. Its exceptional disk performance enables faster, more responsive applications that improve transaction rates and customer satisfaction. The 5884 storage system is equally adept at delivering high IOPS for transactional applications such as databases and OLTP, and sustaining maximum MB/s for bandwidth applications.

High Performance for Open Systems

• Burst I/O from cache: 148,000 IOPS
• Sustained I/O from FC media: 53,200 IOPS
• Sustained I/O from SATA media: 19,800 IO
• Sustained throughput from FC media: 795 MB/s
• Sustained throughput from SATA media: 780 MB/s

Flexible Connectivity

• Eight/Four 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel host ports
• Server-attach and SAN-attach

Dynamic Scalability

• Supports up to 224 FC or SATA drives
• HotScale™ technology enables online capacity expansion up to 67 TB
• Modular flexibility enables "pay-as-you-grow" scalability

"Always on" Availability

• Online storage management
• Redundant, hot-swappable components
• Automated path failover
• Mirrored cache with battery backup

Robust Storage Management

• Centralized, anywhere, anytime administration with SANtricity® Storage Manager software
• Configuration flexibility
• Fully-integrated premium features:
  • SANshare® storage partitioning enables storage consolidation in multi-platform environments
  • Volume snapshot creates an immediate point-in-time logical volume copy 
  • Remote volume mirror provides fully-featured data replication
  • Volume copy creates an exact duplicate, or clone, of a volume within a storage system.