NVMe-optimized high-performance storage redefines cyber resilience for the modern cloud enterprise
- Accelerate mission-critical applications with IBM FlashCore technology
- Enhance cyber resilience without compromising application performance
- Leverage IBM Spectrum Virtualize for highperformance hybrid cloud
- Transform data economics using data reduction with no performance impacts
- Simplify storage management by extending powerful data services
- Leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize storage management
- Deploy leading-edge storage solutions with confidence using IBM FlashWatch
- Increase cost-efficiency with IBM Storage Utility programs
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Contact usHost Interface
Hot swappable.
Ports per control enclosure:
• Up to 48 x 16/32 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC, NVMeoF)
• Up to 20 x 10/25 Gbps Ethernet (iSCSI and NVMe RDMA)
• Up to 12 x 100 Gbps Ethernet (iSCSI and NVMe RDMA)
User Interface
GUI, CLI, REST API
Maximum drives supported
• 48 NVMe drives per control enclosure
• 24 2.5" SAS drives per AFF expansion enclosure
• 92 2.5" SAS drives per A9F expansion enclosure
• Up to a maximum of 184 SAS drives in expansion enclosures per control enclosure
Supported NVMe drives
FlashCore Modules
• 4.8 TB, 9.6 TB, 19.2 TB and 38.4 TB with hardware compression
Storage Class Memory (SCM)
• 1.6 TB
Industry-standard NVMe
• 1.92 TB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, 15.36 TB, and 30.72 TB
Supported SAS drives
2.5-Inch SAS SSD
1.92 TB, 3,84 TB, 7.68 TB, 15.36 TB and 30.72 TB
RAID levels
DRAID 1 and 6 with dynamic DRAID expansion
Max IOPS (4K read hit)
8 million
Minimum latency (4K read hit)
<50 μs
Maximum IOPS (4K read miss)
2.5 million
Maximum bandwidth (256KB read miss)
100 GB/s
Core per control enclosure
Four 24-core 2.4GHz Intel Ice Lake processors per control enclosure
Cache per control enclosure
From 1024 GB up to 3,072 GB per control enclosure
Fans and Power Supplies
Fully redundant, Hot Swappable
Rack Support
Standard 19-Inch
Advanced features
• Data reduction via thin provisioning, UNMAP, Compression and deduplication
• Data-at-rest AES-XTS 256 encryption
• Easy Tier
• Data migration
• External virtualization
• Safeguarded Copy