IBM all-flash diversifies with NVMe-based FlashSystem 9100

IBM FlashSystem 9100 scales to 32 PB of all-flash storage in a standard rack. IBM guarantees consistent latency of 350 microseconds and 100 million IOPS per four-way cluster. IBM today launched new all-flash storage arrays redesigned for NVMe and packaged with the vendor's storage software. The IBM all-flash FlashSystem 9100 (FS9100) is an end-to-end nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) platform, which uses newly designed 2.5-inch IBM FlashCore devices and the full IBM Spectrum software suite. The FlashSystem scale-out arrays allow four pairs of active-active controllers to be clustered for shared NVMe flash. The new FlashSystem models are the FS9110 and FS9150. The FS9110 comes with dual eight-core processors per controller, and the FS9150 has dual 14-core processors. Each controller enclosure has up to 1.5 TB of cache and supports three host adapters. IBM Spectrum software provides array management, copy data management, data protection and cloud virtualization. Spectrum Virtualize uses SAN Volume Controller technology to migrate data from IBM arrays to other vendors' storage. IBM claimed an average of 5-to-1 data reduction using Virtualize. IBM Storage Insights provides AI-based analytics and storage resource management for capacity planning and service-level-agreement-based best practices.