depreciated, can attach their legacy storage to ST9985V externally and exploit the unique
virtualization, storage partitioning, universal replication, and other new software tools with their legacy
storage. At a later date when it is more financially beneficial to retire the legacy storage, the customer
can migrate the data to ST9985V or any other platform within ST9985V’s external storage pool. New
with ST9990V and ST9985V is the ability to externally attach storage via FICON ports thus enabling a
much simpler migration and tiered storage management for z/OS mainframe customers.(future)
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Massive Multi-Protocol Consolidation – ST9985V provides customers an integrated platform for
consolidating and centralizing their data while providing access to hundreds of or even thousands of
servers with differing requirements for connectivity. ST9985V support for Fibre Channel, ESCON,
FICON, and NAS and iSCSI not available at GA, but planned for later) coupled with logical
partitioning, virtual storage ports and centralized management with HiCommand Software provides the
most comprehensive and flexible platform for massive consolidation of storage systems with multi-
protocol requirements, while also providing the software tools to monitor, manage and optimize the
environment to ensure application quality of service. The fourth generation of the Universal Star
Network switched network architecture provides the industry’s highest performing and most scalable
storage system with even more host connectivity than the previous generation to meet the needs of the
largest consolidation projects.
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Dynamic Provisioning Reduces Total Cost of Ownership while improving Data Availability –
Dynamic Provisioning, the new thin provisioning software feature available with ST9985V will allow
customers to greatly improve their storage utilization and reduce their storage TCO by deferring a
portion of their disk purchases to a later date when disk prices are usually lower. The reduction in
physical disk requirement for provisioning also can provide a significant savings in power and cooling
requirements. Today many customers purchase and allocate significantly more disk storage than they
currently need, in anticipation of future growth and to avoid possible application service interruptions
that may be needed to install additional disk drives. Dynamic Provisioning software allows customers
to allocate “virtual” disk storage based on their anticipated future needs, but with less physical disk
initially required. Additional physical disks can be purchased later and installed transparently without
an application service interruption. This feature is not available for mainframes (z/OS), but Open
Systems only.
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Enhanced Business Continuance – ST9985V provides heterogeneous data replication and copy
services between any platform and at any distance, with higher performance, increased data protection
and more efficient use of network bandwidth than previously available. The result is reduced costs,
simplified management and improved data protection and disaster recovery capability. With ST9985V,
Universal Replication (HUR) and ShadowImage (SI) software have improved performance and
increased scalability. Both HUR and SI on ST9985V can support more volumes and more replication
pairs than previously available. Performance has also been improved for both HUR and SI, and HUR
has added new support for more consistency groups spread across up to 4 ST9985V systems that reside
at each site within a 2 datacenter or a 3 datacenter configuration.
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Increased ROI – ST9985V, like its predecessor, the ST9985 will increase ROI by providing
investment protection and longer life for legacy storage, improved storage and server utilization,
improved application quality of service, lower software licenses/costs and simplified and centralized
storage management.
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Improved Service Level Management – ST9985V ensures application-specific Quality of Service
and security within private virtual storage machines. For customers who wish to charge end-users for
differentiated levels of service, or charge for the amount of storage resources consumed, ST9985V’s
virtual private storage machines can also ensure that end-users are allocated only what they are charged
for. Logical partitioning for mainframe-attached has been simplified by eliminating some of the
restrictions on the ST9990 and ST9985.
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Reduced Storage Costs for Mainframe Customers – For mainframe customers ST9985V provides
an opportunity to exploit SATA storage to improve data protection, or to more cost-effectively store
larger amounts DFSMS Migration Level 1 data and offload costly DFSMS mainframe processing
cycles, or deploy a long term and secure data archive solution for regulatory compliance. ST9985V’s
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