System Specifications; Rear View Of The Storwize V3700 Expansion Unit - Lenovo IBM Storwize V3700 Product Manual

The following figure shows the rear of the Storwize V3700 Expansion Unit.
Figure 6. Rear view of the Storwize V3700 Expansion Unit

System specifications

The following table lists the Storwize V3700 storage system specifications.
Table 1. System specifications
Component Specification
Form factor Storwize V3700 Controller Unit: 2U rack mount
Storwize V3700 Expansion Unit: 2U rack mount
Controller unit Dual controller (known as node canister) configuration.
configuration
RAID levels RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10; Distributed RAID 5 and 6 (Distributed RAID is supported with the
Spectrum Virtualize Software for V3700 version 7.6 onwards, which requires 4 GB to 8 GB
cache upgrades).
Controller cache 8 GB per system (4 GB per node canister) upgradeable to 16 GB (8 GB per node canister).
Battery-backed cache protection.
Drive bays Up to 240 SFF drive bays per storage system:
Up to 120 LFF drive bays per storage system:
Intermix of SFF and LFF units is supported.
Drive technology SAS and NL SAS HDDs and SAS SSDs. Intermix of HDDs and SSDs is supported.
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24 SFF drive bays in the controller unit
24 SFF drive bays in the expansion unit; up to 9x expansion units
12 LFF drive bays in the controller unit
12 LFF drive bays in the expansion unit; up to 9x expansion units
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