Today IBM unveiled two new all-flash enterprise storage solutions, the FlashSystem V9000 and the FlashSystem 900. These two new all-flash solutions are aimed at helping organizations by providing industry-leading performance, reliability, and efficiency by accelerating data-intensive applications, all the while lower costs.
Today IBM unveiled two new all-flash enterprise storage solutions, the FlashSystem V9000 and the FlashSystem 900. These two new all-flash solutions are aimed at helping organizations by providing industry-leading performance, reliability, and efficiency by accelerating data-intensive applications, all the while lower costs.
Flash is becoming a larger player in enterprise storage by the day. As Big Data grows everyday businesses are looking for a way to capitalize on it and Flash storage is one of the solutions that will transform this flood of information into tangible value. In April of 2013 IBM invested a billion dollars in flash storage research, partnerships, product development, enhancements to flash sales and support infrastructures, and 12 new Centers of Competency across the globe. Out of this investment came FlashSystem storage. IBM has since been able to reduce data processing by 75%, reducing a 45-minute job to 6 minutes.
IBM's new solutions will help organizations to "unleash the power of big data, achieve real-time business insights, make better decisions, and gain competitive advantage." The FlashSystem V9000 is for businesses that want to consolidate their existing storage systems under one management domain, and implement leading-edge virtualization and storage services, and offers the advantages of software-defined storage. The FlashSystem 900 is for companies that want fast deployment, high performance, enterprise-grade reliability, and macro efficiency.
IBM's FlashSystem solutions feature Micron's MLC flash chip technology, taking advantage of the chip's density and cost benefits. However, the heart of the new all-flash solutions is IBM's FlashCore technology. FlashCore is a suite of innovations and capabilities that enables FlashSystem to deliver better performance than enterprise disk systems. These enhancements translate into real benefits for clients; in one case a client, Coca-Cola, was able to go from processing 100,000 data points a day to 3.5 million data points a day. Other customers who are looking to build cost-effective cloud architecture, gain insight from analytics quickly, engage with mobile customers more often, or are looking to prevent cyber fraud and data security threats will be turning to technology such as FalshCore and the solutions it powers, IBM's FlashSystem.
Michael Kuhn Demonstrating the FlashSystem V9000
FlashSystem V9000 Specifications
- Models: 9846/8-AC2, 9846/8-AE2
- Flash type: IBM Enhanced MLC
- Flash module configuration: 4 x 1.3 TB, 6 x 1.3 TB, 8 x 1.3 TB, 10 x 1.3 TB, 12 x 1.3 TB, 6 x 2.9 TB, 8 x 2.9 TB, 10 x 2.9 TB, 12 x 2.9 TB, 6 x 5.7 TB, 8 x 5.7 TB, 10 x 5.7 TB, 12 x 5.7 TB
- Maximum storage capacity:
- Internal storage enclosure(s): Scalable from 2 TB (usable) up to 456 TB (usable) with full scale-out of control enclosures Effective internal: From 10 TB to 2.2 PB with full scale-out of control enclosures (at 80% reduction) External: Up to 32 PB usable capacity
- Maximum performance – fixed building block (100% read, cache miss)
- Minimum latency (4K): 200 μs
- IOPS (4K): 526,000
- Bandwidth (128K): 6.2 GB/s
- Maximum performance – scalable building block (100% read, cache miss)
- Minimum latency (4K): 200 μs
- IOPS (4K): 630,000
- Bandwidth (128K): 6.2 GB/s
- Maximum performance – scaled out (100% read, 4 building blocks)
- Latency (4K): 200 μs
- IOPS (4K): 2,520,000
- Bandwidth (128K): 19.2 GB/s
- IOPS (4K) using Real-time Compression: 1,200,000
- Encryption
- Data-at-rest: AES-XTS 256
- FlashSystem V9000 fixed building block – host connectivity options
- 8 x 16 Gb Fibre Channel 10 x 8 Gb Fibre Channel 8 x 10 Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) 8 x 10 Gb iSCSI
- FlashSystem V9000 scalable building block – host connectivity options
- 8 x 16 Gb Fibre Channel 16 x 8 Gb Fibre Channel 8 x 10 Gb FCoE 8 x 10 Gb iSCSI
- Shared SMP processor configuration
- Two Intel Xeon E5 v2 Series eight-core processors
- Processor memory: 64 GB per engine
IBM FlashSystem 900 Specifications
- Model: 9840-AE2, 9843-AE2
- Flash type: IBM-enhanced MLC
- Minimum latency
- Write: 90 μs
- Read: 155 μs
- Maximum IOPS 4KB
- Read (100%, random): 1,100,000
- Read/write (70%/30%, random): 800,000
- Write (100%, random): 600,000
- Maximum bandwidth 256 KB
- Read (100%, sequential): 10 GB/s
- Write (100%, sequential): 4.5 GB/s
- Encryption: AES-XTS 256
- Connectivity options:
- 16 x 8 Gb Fibre Channel
- 8 x 16 Gb Fibre Channel
- 8 x 40 Gb quad data rate (QDR) InfiniBand
- 16 x 10 Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
- 16 x 10 Gb iSCSI
- Power: 625 Watts (nominal)
