The IBM System Storage® N series Gateway product line is a network-based
unified storage solution designed to provide Internet Protocol (IP) and Fibre
Channel (FC) protocol access to SAN-attached heterogeneous storage arrays. The
N6000 and N7000 series systems ordered with a Gateway feature code can help you
make the most of the dynamic provisioning capabilities of Data ONTAP™ software
across your existing Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure to support an expanded set
of business applications. The IBM N series Gateway is based on the Data ONTAP
microkernel operating system, which is designed to unify block and file storage
networking paradigms under a common architecture. The N series Gateway offers a
comprehensive suite of advanced data management capabilities designed to help
you consolidate, protect and recover mission-critical data for enterprise
applications and users.
The IBM N series Gateway is designed to deliver the performance and capacity
to meet access requirements for enterprises of all sizes. N series Gateway
systems are intended to deliver industry-leading performance, offer terabytes of
managed capacity, and be configured for simultaneous active/active access with
secure failover across two independent systems in a cluster
The N6000 and N7000 series Gateway product lines support the attachment to
both N series EXN1000, EXN3000 and EXN4000 disk storage expansion units;
IBM Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS) series, IBM XIV® Storage System, IBM System
Storage DS8000® and DS4000® series; as well as a broad range of EMC, Hitachi,
Fujitsu, 3PAR and HP storage subsystems. You can now take advantage of the
N series Gateway capabilities to help improve business efficiency and reduce
data management complexity with a variety of storage subsystems.