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Highlights
- Meet diverse and changing needs. Consolidate diverse data sets onto a unified storage platform that provides simultaneous block and file services.
- Perform when your applications need it most. Outstanding performance with high bandwidth, 64-bit architecture, and the latest I/O technologies.
- Maximise your resources. Highly efficient storage utilisation makes it possible for you to dramatically reduce power, cooling, and space demands.
- Respond to growth. Preserve investments in staff expertise and capital equipment with data-in-place upgrades to more powerful N series systems.
- Improve your business efficiency. Take advantage of the N6000 series Gateway capabilities to reduce data management complexity in heterogeneous storage environments.

Today’s business environment demands innovation and increasingly flawless execution. You have to manage and protect valuable data to enable business growth and success. Your IT operations have to evolve with the business while meeting budget, staffing, and infrastructure limits. Virtualised computing requires networked storage systems supporting diverse data sets to unlock the full potential of virtualised servers.
With IBM N6000 series systems you can simultaneously meet your diverse needs-SAN and NAS, primary and secondary storage. And you get outstanding value: our flexible systems offer excellent performance and impressive scalability at a low total cost of ownership.
Common features
- Simultaneous multiprotocol support for FCP, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, HTTP, and FTP
- File-level and block-level service in a single system
- Upgrade up to 840TB of physical capacity while avoiding service disruption
- Support for Fibre Channel and SATA disk drives
- Data ONTAP® software
- 16TB maximum volume size
- Broad range of built-in features
- Multiple supported backup methods including disk-based and host-based backup and tape backup to direct, SAN andGBE attached tape devices
Hardware summary
- Up to 840TB raw storage capacity
- 4GB to 32GB cache memory
- 512 MB to 4GB nonvolatile memory
- 10GBE adapter card (optional)
- Quad-port 4GBps adapters (optional)
- Up to 8 Performance Acceleration Modules
- Diagnostic LED/LCD
- Dual redundant hot-plug integrated cooling fans and auto-ranging power supplies
- 19 inch, rack-mountable
N6000 series Gateway is also available with a Gateway feature code.
