IBM 6000 - IBM Storage Scale System 6000 Networking

Figure 4. IBM Storage Scale System 6000 networking
• Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X550-T2
– System interface: PCIe Gen 3
– Ethernet interface: 10 GbE / 1 GbE / 100 Mb
• FC: AJQS - CX-7 InniBand or VPI dual port HPC adapter
– InniBand - HDR200 200 Gb / HDR100 100 Gb / EDR 100 Gb / NDR 200 Gb
– Ethernet - 100 GbE / 200 GbE
• FC: AJQQ - CX-7 InniBand, single port, 400 Gb
NVMe transport protocol in IBM Storage Scale System 6000
The IBM Storage Scale System 6000 systems use the Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) drive
transport protocol.
• NVMe is designed specically for flash technologies. It is a faster and less complicated storage drive
transport protocol than SAS.
• The NVMe-attached drives support multiple queues so that each CPU core can communicate directly
with the drive. This feature avoids the latency and overhead of core-to-core communication to give the
best performance.
• NVMe offers better performance and lower latencies exclusively for solid-state drives through multiple
I/O queues and other enhancements.
• High-performance IBM Storage Scale RAID supports the following RAID code options:
– 3WayReplication
– 4WayReplication
– 8+2p
– 8+3p
Note: For information about RAID code options, see IBM Spectrum
®
Scale RAID Administration guide
.
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