Supported operating platforms

Use one of the supported operating hardware platforms to host the SAN Volume Controller software.

IBM® SAN Volume Controller is built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ software, which is part of the IBM Spectrum Storage™ family.

Minimum requirements

You must set up your operating environment accordingly:

The SAN Volume Controller 2145-DH8 and SAN Volume Controller 2145-SV1 nodes contain the following features:

A 19-inch rack-mounted enclosure
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™

The SAN Volume Controller 2145-CG8 node has the following features:

A 19-inch rack-mounted enclosure
One 4-port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel adapter
One optional 2-port 10 Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet converged network adapter
Optional second 4-port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel adapter
24 GB memory
Fibre Channel over Ethernet host attachment (need to add only one)
One quad-core processor
Dual, redundant power supplies
Supports up to four optional flash drives
iSCSI host attachment (1 Gbps Ethernet and optional 10 Gbps Ethernet)
Supports optional IBM Real-time Compression

Note: The optional flash drives and optional 10 Gbps Ethernet cannot be in the same 2145-CG8 node.

The SAN Volume Controller 2145-CF8 node has the following features: