IBM Elastic Storage System 3500

IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) 3500 delivers the next gen of storage capacity, density, performance, and value

IBM ESS 3500 combines Spectrum Scale for ESS with high-performance NVMe gen 4 storage in a 2U form factor.

This solution accelerates AI workloads and optimizes GPU compute environments, while delivering performance and availability benefits to other workloads.

ESS 3500 Storage Enclosure 5147-102 is an enterprise, redundant, SAS/SATA enclosure designed for ESS 3500 5141-FN2. The enclosure supports up to 102 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch HDDs of any density and spindle speed and up to 4×5147-102 storage enclosures can be attached to ESS 3500 (5141-FN2), providing up to 8PB of HDD capacity.

Key requirements

• ESS management server (5105-22E)
• Management switch (8831-S52 or 8831-T48)

Planned availability dates

• August 26, 2022: All features, except as follows
• September 9, 2022: Feature AJQG
• March 3, 2023: Features AJQ3, AJQ4, AJQ7, and AJQ8