The IBM DS8000 series (early IBM System Storage DS8000 series) is an IBM storage media platform with hybrid flash and hard disk storage for IBM mainframes and other enterprise grade computing environments.
Description
This series was formerly designed as a line of cabinet-size solutions, prior to the more compact and affordable rack-mount DS6000 series.[1] In 2015 the DS6000 line were discontinued, and the all-flash entry-level DS8882F model was released as a rack-mount successor of DS6000 line.
All IBM DS storage lines are based on an IBM Power CPU and use IBM Power Systems servers as controllers.
Can contain up to 1536 drives (2.5": 10K or 15K RPM HDD or enterprise flash SAS-2, or 3.5": Nearline-SAS drives) + 120 1.8" flash cards in the High-Performance Flash Enclosure (HPFE)
High Performance Flash Enclosure: integrates and optimizes flash technology in the DS8870 (High-performance flash enclosure fits into existing DS8870 bay)
Up to 8 Flash Enclosures per System : 96 TB raw per system
DS8880 Family[11] - released in end of 2015;[12][13] base models with mixed storage (DS8884 and DS8886) and all-flash solutions (DS888#F).
DS8882F - all-flash version for rack-mounting (17U, 16U without KVM)
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