SAN Volume Controller operating environment

To use the system, you must meet the minimum hardware and software requirements and ensure that other operating environment criteria are met.

Minimum requirements

You must set up your SAN Volume Controller operating environment according to the following requirements:

  • At least one pair of SAN Volume Controller nodes
  • A 19-inch rack-mounted enclosure

SAN Volume Controller 2145-DH8 node features

The SAN Volume Controller 2145-DH8 contains:
  • At least one Fibre Channel adapter or one 10 Gbps Ethernet adapter
  • Optional second and third Fibre Channel adapters
  • 32 GB memory per processor
  • One or two eight-core processors
  • Dual redundant power supplies
  • Up to two SAN Volume Controller expansion enclosures to house optional flash drives
  • iSCSI host attachment (1 Gbps Ethernet and optional 10 Gbps Ethernet)
  • Supports optional IBM® Real-time Compression™