IBM FlashSystem V840 With 16Gb FC and 10GbE Host Connections
2U, scaling to up to 1.6PB and 2.5 million IO/s
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on November 5, 2014 at 2:46 pmIBM FlashSystem V840 is delivered in a 2U, 19-inch rack mount enclosure with IBM installation.
It is a combined hardware and software storage system with flash capacity and a single point of control for storage resources. It includes functions traditionally deployed separately in disk systems.
FlashSystem V840 Control Enclosure Model AC1 delivers expanded connectivity with the following available host features:
- 8Gb FC
- 16Gb FC
- 10GbE iSCSI
- 10GbR FCoE
FlashSystem V840 Control Enclosure Model AC1 now support FlashSystem V840 Software V7.4 (5639-FS7) which provides increased real-time compression performance and features two optional compression accelerator cards for hardware-assisted compression.
The inclusion of 16Gb FC connectivity enables scaling of 16Gb FC switches, leveraging faster link speed and increased system bandwidth by delivering the ability to select either 8Gb or 16Gb interconnect switches for enclosure connectivity.
All FlashSystem V840 functional capabilities are provided through FlashSystem Software V7.4 for FlashSystem V840.
Planned availability date: December 12, 2014
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