IBM Storage Announcement 1Q 2022

New Flash System FS7300 Midrange Enterprise

The IBM Midrange System!

IBM FlashSystem 7300 provides feature-rich, enterprise-grade storage solutions that help support crucial workloads and apps. IBM FlashSystem 7300 offers end-to-end NVMe, IBM FlashCore® technology, the ultralow latency of storage class memory (SCM), and much more.

Bring high-end capabilities to your midrange virtual storage needs and enable fast and flexible cloud service delivery with flash storage arrays.

Key data IBM FS7300:

Four 10-core Cascade Lake Processor/Node
2U Form-Factor with 24 NVMe Drive Slots
Up to 2.2PB (effektiv)
up to 1.5TB Cache
580k IOPS (16k 70/30/50), 45GB/s
FCMv3, mit bis zu 3:1 Compression
Easy Tier support for up to 12 SCM drives
24x 32Gb FC Ports per System
12x 100GbE or 12x 10/25GbE iSCSI und NVMe RDMA Ports per System

New Flash System FS9500 High-End Enterprise

The IBM High-End System!

IBM FlashSystem 9500 combines the performance of flash and end-to-end Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) with the reliability and innovation of IBM FlashCore® technology, so you can easily add in the hybrid cloud solutions that best support your most critical demands.

Optimal all-flash and NVMe performance with flash acceleration and the reliability of IBM FlashCore® technology and the enterprise features of Spectrum Virtualize.

Key data IBM FS9500:

Four 24-core Ice Lake Processor/Node
4U Form-Factor with 48 NVMe Drive Slots
Up to 4.5PB (effektiv)
up to 3TB of DRAM Cache
1.6M IOPS (16k 70/30/50), 100GB/s
FCMv3 mit bis zu 3:1 Compression
Easy Tier support for up to 12 SCM Drives
Up to 48x 32GB FC ports (prepared for 64GB FC with new cards)
12x 100GbE or 20x 10/25GbE iSCSI und NVMe RDMA Ports per System

New SAN Volume Controller (SV3)

Simplify storage infrastructure management, tiered storage and advanced features. The IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is an enterprise-class storage system designed with IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ software – part of the IBM Spectrum Storage™ family – to help organizations achieve better data economics by supporting the new big workloads that are critical to success.

SVC systems can handle the massive amounts of data from mobile and social applications, enable flexible hybrid cloud deployments, and provide the performance and scalability needed to gain insights from the latest analytics technologies.