IBM Midrange System DS4000 Series User Manual

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The security enabled drives can be used as normal drives and intermixed in an array with
drives of equal type and capacity when this feature is not enabled. This new feature is
detailed in Chapter 5, “Disk Security with Full Disk Encryption drives” on page 259.
Securing the DS5000 storage subsystem
Besides this new level of protection within the drives, it is important to plan ahead for other
more trivial, but not less important, security issues, such as:
򐂰 Password protection: Storage Manager has the facility to set passwords to allow only
authorized users access.
򐂰 Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection: Permits only authorized users access to your
internal network.
򐂰 Remote Desktop Users/Passwords: Permits only authorized users to access your Storage
Manager Client workstation.
򐂰 Plan redundancy for Storage Manager stations and networks:
– One network card for the DS5000 Management LAN
– One network card for the customer WAN
– Physically separates the DS5000 management network from the rest of the enterprise
network
4.2 Planning for premium features
Premium features are optional features that are activated, after being purchased, by
registering a key using the Storage Manager software. When planning for any of the premium
features, it is a good idea to document what are the goals and rationale for purchasing the
feature. This clearly defines from the outset what you want to achieve and why. To learn the
actual procedure to enable the premium features, see 7.2, “Handling premium features” on
page 362
The following are the premium features that are available, depending your DS5000 storage
subsystem:
򐂰 Disk Encryption or FDE
򐂰 Storage Partitioning
򐂰 Drive Slot Limit
򐂰 FlashCopy Logical Drives
򐂰 VolumeCopy
򐂰 Remote Logical Drive Mirroring
򐂰 FC/SATA Intermix
򐂰 Storage Partitioning
Feature packs
In addition to the premium features, which are normally available for all the DS5000 storage
subsystems for one specific function, you can receive a feature pack activation, which is a
bundle of optional features packed together in a single activation file. The basic feature pack
shipped depends on the model of the DS5000 storage subsystem.
Here we describe the planning requirements of each feature pack. All of the needs and
requirements should be documented.

IBM Midrange System DS4000 Series Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	Midrange System DS4000 Series
Category	Storage
Language	English