IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

Simplified and centralized management for your storage infrastructure

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/FCoE (optional)
Number of internal drives
  • Up to 4 SSD devices per SAN Volume Controller node
Maximum storage capacity
  • Internal: Up to 3.2 TB raw SSD capacity per I/O group or up to 12.8 TB in an 8-node cluster
  • External: Up to 32 PB usable capacity
Internal SSD size
  • 200 GB, 400 GB
RAID levels for internal SSD
  • 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10
Dimensions (height x width x depth) 1.7" × 17.3" × 29" (4.3×44×73.7 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
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 VNX
  • 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
  • Xiotech Emprise 5000
  • Nexsan SATABeast
  • Compellent Fluid Data
  • Violin Memory
Host multipathing software
  • System Storage Multipath Subsystem Device Driver (SDD)
  • Veritas Storage Foundation from Symantec 3.5 MP3, 4.0, 4.1, 4.3, 5.0, 6.0
  • 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 systems support
  • AIX V4.3.3
  • IBM 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
  • Solaris 8, 9, 10, 11
  • 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, 6.0
  • 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
  • BNT
  • Brocade
  • McDATA
  • Cisco
  • Qlogic
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 non-disruptively
IBM Global Services storage services
  • Consult and design
  • Integrate and deploy
  • Operate and manage

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