IBM Scale Out NAS With New 2.5-Inch Disk Capacities

IBM Scale Out NAS (SONAS) provides support for extended capacity for the 2851 DR2 and DE2 models.

It now offers 400GB 3GB 2.5-inch SSD, 800GB 6GB 2.5-inch SSD, and 1.2TB 10,000tpm 6Gb SAS 2.5 disks for the SONAS Storage Controller 2 (2851-DR2) and SONAS Storage Expansion 2 (2851-DE2).

These are new versions and capacities of the previous disks, features #3491, #3492, and #3493.

Hardware requirements

• The SONAS Storage Controller 2 (2851-DR2) requires:
• Controller Firmware level 07.84, or later
• DS Storage Manager version 10.77, or later

Software requirements

• SONAS Software level 1.4.1

Planned availability date: December 5, 2014