Drive Configuration
6 x 9.6TB FCM
Host Connections
10GB iSCSI, 25GB iSCSI or 16GB Fiber Channel
Drives Supported
2.5-inch flash drives, SFF 2.5-inch disk drives, LFF 3.5-inch disk drives, IBM FlashCore Modules. Storage Class Memory
Connectivity Supported
10Gb ISCSI, 16Gb Fiber Channel, 12Gb SAS, 25Gb ISCSI, 32Gb Fiber Channel
Data Reduction Pools (Compression, DeDuplication, Thin Provisioning, UNMAP)
Hardware Assisted Compression
Hardware Based
Encryption
Hardware Based
Remote Replication (Synchronous Metro Mirror, Asynchronous Global Mirror)
Hyperswap High Availability
Easy Tier AI-driven automated tiering
RAID levels
Distributed RAID 1, 5 and 6
Transparent Data Migration
Red Hat OpenShift Container Integration
Heterogenous Support for >500 storage systems
Metro Mirror (synchronous)
Global Mirror (asynchronous)
IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software
Maximum drives supported
748 per control enclosure; 2,992 per clustered system
Cache per control enclosure
64 or up to 512 GB
Cache per clustered system
2.04 TB
Cores per control enclosure
16
Cores per clustered system
64
Maximum standard expansion enclosure capacity
Up to 20 standard expansion enclosures per controller
Maximum high density expansion enclosure capacity
Up to 8 high-density expansion enclosures per controller
Redundant, hot-swappable fans
Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies
Standard 19-inch rack support