IBM Storage FlashSystem Portfolio 

Technical Specifications

The high-speed IBM FlashSystem primary data storage platform provides enterprise-class data solutions for businesses, large and small. The platform offers built-in AI and interoperability while enabling a fast response to cyber threats and data breaches. From hybrid storage to performant nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) all-flash arrays and both on-premises and cloud-based workloads, IBM FlashSystem meets even the most demanding data storage requirements.

With the introduction of Flash Grid architecture,  organizations can deploy a scalable, highly available data plane for monitoring and managing their storage architecture. Allowing them to reduce data silos and spend less time on storage management by easily automating and non-disruptively moving data between multiple connected storage systems. This provides data mobility to different data centers regionally and globally while rebalancing as workloads grow and regularly refreshing systems to keep your infrastructure consistently up to date. Resulting in a data storage architecture that guarantees your data and applications are always available, performant, and have the capacity needed to meet your organization's long-term storage objectives while freeing up people and capital to focus on new strategic projects.

These specifications assume Flash Grid contains eight devices with the same configuration:

IBM Flash Grid At a Glance

IBM Flash Grid can contain a mix of different machine types and configurations for added versatility:

• FlashSystem 5015 is an affordable and easy-to-use solution with powerful scale-up features, offering various storage options and using IBM Storage Virtualize features.
• FlashSystem 5045 provides greater functionality, including powerful encryption capabilities, data reduction pools with compression, deduplication, thin provisioning, and the ability to cluster for scale-up and scale-out.
• FlashSystem 5300 is an NVMe storage option for entry-level enterprises that need compact, powerful storage. Part of the FlashSystem family, the 5300 unifies data management across the core, cloud, and edge and is designed in a revolutionary 1U form factor. The result is blazing speeds, robust density and numerous scale-up and scale-out options.
• FlashSystem 7300 is cost-effective storage that accelerates performance and seamlessly modernizes infrastructures. Part of the FlashSystem family, the 7300 is powered by IBM FlashCore Modules and NVMe technology. Built on IBM Storage Virtualize software, this is storage for the modern enterprise: simple, smart, secure—delivering incredible performance.
• FlashSystem 9500 combines IBM FlashCore Modules, NVMe architecture and AI-powered features for unrivaled performance. Part of the FlashSystem family, the 9500 delivers extreme speed and simplicity for the most demanding enterprise workloads. 

This is a brief summary of the essential features and specifications of the IBM FlashSystem family:

IBM Storage FlashSystem Family At a Glance

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IBM Storage Virtualize

·              Designed for "six nines" (99.9999%) data availability with over 20 years of market presence.

·              Distributed RAID 1, 5, and 6 provides the flexibility to choose the level of data protection required. 

·              Virtualization of internal storage enables rapid, flexible provisioning and simple configuration changes. 

·              Thin provisioning optimizes efficiency by allocating disk storage space in a flexible manner among multiple users, based on the minimum space required by each user at any given time. With thin provisioning, applications consume only the space they are actually using, not the total space that has been allocated to them. 

·              Data reduction pools increase existing infrastructure capacity utilization by leveraging the following efficiency functions:

o   Automatically deallocate and reclaim capacity of thin-provisioned volumes containing deleted data and, for the first time, enable this reclaimed capacity to be reused by other volumes.

o   Block deduplication for increased efficiency of storage usage by utilizing pointers in duplicate blocks rather than keeping multiple copies.

o   Compression that improves efficiency by storing more active primary data in the same physical disk space.·     Dynamic migration delivers efficiency and business value through a nondisruptive migration function. 

·              Dynamic migration delivers efficiency and business value through a nondisruptive migration function. 

·              Policy-based snapshots and replication provides simplified configuration and management for storage replication by applying a policy to a set of volumes in a volume group.

·              Graphical user interface delivers intuitive data management designed with point-and-click system management capabilities.

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