IBM FlashSystem V840 Control Enclosure Model AC1

IBM FlashSystem V840 Control Enclosure Model AC1 is a combined hardware and software storage system with flash capacity and a single point of control for storage resources FlashSystem V840 includes many functions traditionally deployed separately in disk systems.

By including these in a virtualization system, FlashSystem standardizes functions across virtualized storage for flexibility and potentially lower costs. It improves business application availability and delivers greater resource utilization to get the most from storage resources, and achieve a simpler, more scalable, and cost-efficient IT infrastructure.

FlashSystem Control Enclosure Model AC1 delivers increased performance, expanded connectivity, and compression acceleration when compared to Model AC0.

It is based on System x server technology and consists of two Xeon E5 v2 Series eight-core processors, each with 32GB of memory.

It includes three I/O adapter cards for 8GB FC connectivity.

It also includes two integrated AC power supplies and battery units replacing the uninterruptable power supply feature required on previous generation control enclosure models.

The Model AC1 Control Enclosure offers features for real-time compression workloads and up to two optional compression accelerator cards for hardware-assisted compression.

All FlashSystem V840 functional capabilities are provided through FlashSystem Software V7.3 for FlashSystem V840.

Key prerequisites
FlashSystem V840 supports FC attachment to the following servers:

• System x servers
• Power Systems servers
• Flex System
• BladeCenter
• Power System blades
• System z servers
• Intel and AMD processor-based servers

Planned availability date
July 18, 2014: Model AC1 and all features except #3001 and #3002
September 5, 2014: Features #3001 and #3002