IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

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Specifications
Shared SMP processor configuration	Intel Xeon 5600 Series quad core
Processor memory for cache	24 GB per engine
Host adapter interfaces	Four 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Two 1 Gbps iSCSI Two 10 Gbps iSCSI (optional)
Number of internal drives	Up to 4 SSD devices per SVC node
Maximum storage capacity	Internal: Up to 1.2 TB raw SSD capacity per I/O group or up to 4.8 TB in an 8-node cluster External: Up to 32 PB usable capacity
Internal SSD size	146 GB
RAID levels for internal SSD	0, 1, 5, 6, and 10
Dimensions (height x width x depth)	1.7" x 17.3" x 29" (4.3x44x73.7 cm)
Maximum weight	33 lb (15 kg)
Operating environment
Wet bulb temperature	Operating 23° C Powered off 27° C Storage and shipping 29° C
Relative humidity	Operating and powered off 8% to 80% Storage 5% to 80% Shipping 5% to 100%
Power supply	2 PSUs standard
Electrical power	200 - 240 V ac, 3.8 A, 50/60 Hz
Warranty period	1 year
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller supported environments at a glance
Storage systems support	Specific models of the following storage systems: IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server®, IBM System Storage DS3000, DS4000®, DS5000, DS6000™, DS8000, N series IBM XIV® Storage System Storwize V7000 Unified EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX and 8000-series models EMC CLARiiON CX-series models and FC4700 Hitachi Data Systems Thunder, Lightning, TagmaStore, AMS, WMS, Universal Storage Platform Sun StorEdge systems, Sun StorageTek systems, FlexLine 200 Hewlett Packard MA8000, EMA12000, EMA16000, EVA family, MSA family, XP family, 3Par NetApp FAS Bull StoreWay Fujitsu Eternus NEC iStorage Pillar Axiom Texas Memory Systems RamSan-500 Xiotech Emprise 5000 Compellent Fluid Data
Host multipathing software	System Storage Multipath Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) Symantec/Veritas Volume Manager 3.5 MP3, 4.0, 4.1, 4.3, 5.0 PVLinks for HP-UX MPIO for Windows and IBM AIX® MPxIO for Solaris Native NetWare multipathing driver Native VMware multipathing driver for VMware ESX 2.5 and later Native multipathing drivers for OpenVMS, Tru64, SGI Irix RDAC multipathing software for certain DS4000 environments
Operating system support	AIX V4.3.3 AIX 5L™ V5.1, V5.2, V5.3 AIX V6.1 IBM z/VSE® V4.2 IBM PowerVM™ Virtual I/O Server 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Microsoft Hyper-V Novell NetWare V6.5 Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10 VMware ESX 2.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 3.0.2, 3.5, 3i VMware vSphere 4, 5 HP-UX 11.0, 11i V1, V2, V3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Advanced Server 2.1, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, 9, 10, 11 Citrix Xen Server HP Tru64 5.1A, 5.1B HP OpenVMS 7.3-2, 8.2, 8.3 SGI Irix 6.5.28, Altix SLES 9 Mac OS X Server 10.5
Support for SAN switches—selected models from the following suppliers	Brocade McDATA Cisco CNT
Service	Customer engineer installation Hardware warranty, one year parts and labor One year of software maintenance included Software upgrades and fix packs available through web download, may be installed nondisruptively
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