IBM DS8900F 4-Year Warranty All-Flash Offering

IBM DS8900F four-year warranty all-flash offering built with IBM POWER9 technology

IBM DS8900F all-flash family is designed to deliver comprehensive next-level cybersecurity, data stability, and system resiliency for mission-critical workloads across hybrid multicloud deployments.

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The family offers DS8980F, an analytic-class storage system designed to expand mission-critical workload possibilities to AI, business intelligence, and ML.

IBM DS8980F Model 998 is a racked analytic-class solution delivering the following features:

Two 11-core processors (22 cores) per central processor complex for a total of 44 cores per system
Maximum of 192 flash cards
4.3TB processor memory per system
128GB non-volatile dual in-line memory module (NVDIMM) for write retention
Up to 16 host adapters or 64 ports
Single-phase and three-phase support
Expansion Model E96 compatibility

Following functions available for DS8900F family models:

Volume-level performance reporting
Safeguarded Copy restore to production
Consistent read from Metro Mirror secondary site
FC connectivity reporting
Encryption without key servers (local encryption)
Unmap command for IBM i
Expandable to 2TB and 3.4TB cache
Transparent cloud tiering multicloud support

Key requirements: All announced features and functions that are supported on the IBM DS8000 series require DS8000 LMC 8.9.20.xx.xx (bundle version 89.20.xx.xx), or later.

Planned availability date: August 20, 2021