Supported operating platforms

Use one of the supported operating hardware platforms to host the system software.

IBM® SAN Volume Controller system 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:

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
Expansion enclosures to house optional flash drives
iSCSI host and storage controller attachment (1 Gbps or 10 Gbps electrical Ethernet and optional 10 Gbps or 25 Gbps optical Ethernet)
Supports optional IBM Real-time Compression™