IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 User Manual

Chapter 2. Technical overview
The technical overview topics provide information about the key concepts of IBM Elastic Storage System
3200.
Target audience of this chapter: Customers and IBM Service Support Representative (SSR).
System overview
An IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 enclosure contains Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) attached
SSD drives and a pair of server canisters.
IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 is an all-Flash array platform. This storage platform uses NVMe-
attached SSD drives to provide signicant performance improvements as compared to SAS-attached flash
drives.
IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 can contain up to 24 NVMe-attached SSD drives. You can either use 12
drives in a half-populated conguration or 24 drives in a fully populated conguration. These drives are
accessible from the front of IBM Elastic Storage System 3200, as shown in the following gure.
Note: The minimum number of drives is 12. In a 12-drive conguration, drives must be plugged into slots
1 - 6 and then 13 - 18.
Figure 1. Front view of IBM Elastic Storage System 3200
Each IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 contains two identical I/O server canisters. The following gure
shows two I/O server canisters and two power modules.
Figure 2. Rear view of IBM Elastic Storage System 3200
The IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 system uses a single socket AMD EPYC Rome processor per I/O
canister node. The following table provides an overview of IBM Elastic Storage System 3200.
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IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 Specifications

General

Brand	IBM
Model	Elastic Storage System 3200
Category	Storage
Language	English