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Table 2. Overview of IBM Storage Scale System 3500
Product
IBM Storage Scale
System 3500
The major key characteristics of the IBM Storage Scale System 3500 system are as follows:
• IBM Storage Scale software with enclosure-based, all-inclusive software feature licensing.
• NVMe transport protocol for high performance of 2.5-inch (SFF) NVMe-attached SSD drives and flash
drive:
– Support for industry-standard 2.5-inch NVMe-attached SSD drive options with the following storage
capacities: 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, 15.36 TB, and 30.72 TB mentioned in Table 3 on page 18.
Table 3. Storage capacities and feature codes of NVMe-attached SSD drives
Feature Code
AJP4
AJP5
AJP6
AJPT
• 12 or 24 drives per enclosure configurations are available.
• Onboard ports:
– One RJ45 x1 Gbps for Mgmt
– One RJ45 x1 Gbps for BMC inter canister communication
– One micro HDMI port for console display
– One USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type A upper port for crash-cart keyboard
– One USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type A lower port for SSR
– One USB Mini-B for service
• Four Gen4 x16 PCIe slots each, per canister that supports the following adapter options:
– AJZL - CX-6 InfiniBand/VPI in PCIe form factor (InfiniBand and Ethernet), HHHL PCIe G4 adapter.
– AJZN - CX-6 DX in PCIe form factor (Ethernet only), HHHL PCIe G4 adapter.
• Slot 1 and 3 Gen4 x16 PCIe each, per canister that supports the following adapter:
– AJQS - CX-7 InfiniBand/VPI Dual Port HPC Adapter
Networking details
The networking details of IBM Storage Scale System 3500 are shown in the following figure.
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Number of
Total memory per
DIMMs per server
server canister
canister
8 (64 GB DIMM) 512 GB
8 (128 GB DIMM) 1024 GB
Description
3.84 TB 2.5-inch PCIe Gen4
NVMe-attached SSD drive
7.68 TB 2.5-inch PCIe Gen4
NVMe-attached SSD drive
15.36 TB 2.5-inch PCIe Gen4
NVMe-attached SSD drive
30.72 TB 2.5-inch PCIe Gen4
NVMe-attached SSD drive
Total storage (raw
capacity) per IBM Server Canister
Storage Scale features
System 3500
Up to 360 TB per
Single socket AMD
IBM Storage Scale
EPYC 7642 48-
System 3500 unit
core processor.
Up to 720 TB per
Dual 960 GB NVMe
IBM Storage Scale
boot drives.
System 3500 unit
FRU Part number
01LL727
01LL728
01LL729
01LL993