Description
2076-224 IBM Storwize V7000 Expansion Enclosure is packaged in a 2U rack-mountable enclosure that houses twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays, dual-switched 6 Gbps ESMs, and dual power supplies with cooling components. 2076-224 IBM Storwize V7000 Expansion Enclosure has a physical storage capacity of up to 24 TB per enclosure using 2 TB Nearline SAS DDMs, and up to 14 TB per enclosure using 600 GB SAS DDMs.
2076-224 IBM Storwize V7000 Expansion Enclosure connects to the IBM Storwize V7000 Control Enclosure through SAS 6 Gbps expansion ports. The 2076-224 IBM Storwize V7000 Expansion Enclosure has four SAS expansion ports, and depending upon storage configuration, either two or all four expansion ports will be used.
A quantity of two 6 Gbps SAS cables are needed to attach each 2076-224 IBM Storwize V7000 Expansion Enclosure. No additional hardware is necessary to make use of the SAS expansion ports.There can be attached up to nine expansion enclosures to a disk control enclosure.
- 2076-224 IBM Storwize V7000 utilizes IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller technology to deliver high performance, high availability, advanced function and modular and scalable storage capacity
- Dual-active RAID controllers supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10, and up to 240TB configurations
- Accommodates up to 24 2.5″ disk drives (within the base 2U enclosure)
- Supports up to 9 Storwize V7000 24-Slot Expansion Enclosures
- Connectivity: 8x 8 Gbps FC host ports and 4x 1 Gbps iSCSI host ports for attachment to SAN-fabric or host servers
- 16GB Cache Memory Standard (8GB per controller)
IBM Storwize V7000 Expansion Enclosure is also avaliable in a 2U rack-mountable enclosure that houses 12 3.5-inch drive bays – 2076-212