IBM FlashSystem 5200 4662-6H2 NVMe Flash Storage

IBM FlashSystem 5200 4662-6H2 is an affordable all in one enterprise-class NVMe accelerated SAN, capable of delivering up to 1.7 PB of storage in a 1U chassis, 21 GB/s bandwidth, 1.5 million IOPS, less than 50 microsecond latency, and includes the award winning IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM Storage Insights and IBM Cyber Vault software suites. The IBM FlashSystem 5200 model 4662-6H2 is designed for companies of all sizes to utilize proven best in class performance, security for ransomware and cyberattack detection and recovery, hardware encryption and immutable data protection via IBM Safeguarded Copy, scalability of up to 32 PB; delivering affordable storage for Private Cloud deployment or AWS and Azure Public or Hybrid Cloud deployments, analytics, AI, and many other mission critical workloads. The IBM FS5200 flash storage system provides a lot of flexibility and scalability that supports mixing a wide range of data services, while securely and seamlessly moving data within cloud architectures at amazing speeds.

The IBM 5200 4662-UH6 FlashSystem 5200 is physically and functionally identical to the IBM 5200 4662-6H2 FlashSystem, except for variable capacity billing. The IBM 4662-UH6 variable capacity billing uses IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights to monitor the FlashSystem's storage usage, of which allocated storage usage above subscription rate is billed per TB each month. Billable "allocated storage" is any FlashSystem storage that is allocated to a specific host and is unusable to other hosts, whether data is written or not. Thin-provisioning is billed based on the data that is actually written to the FlashSystem and considered for the "allocated storage" used and billed, whereas thick provisioning includes the total allocated volume space as the "allocated storage" used for billing.

The IBM FlashSystem 5200 price starts at under $30,000, and includes enterprise-class capabilities with IBM Spectrum Virtualize features such as; deduplication, compression, automated thin provisioning, AI-driven automation that migrates frequently accessedd ata to flash storage via IBM Easy Tier, migrate data without downtime and enable remote mirroring for HA via IBM HyperSwap. The software features included with the IBM FlashSystem 5200 can manage non-IBM storage systems, providing better performance and a consolidated tiered storage environment, shrinking your footprint, maintenance expenses and other operating costs.

IBM FlashSystem 5200 is ideal for NVMe storage, but customers may choose between mixing IBM FlashCore Modules, industry-standard NVMe drives and storage-class memory. Commercial NVMe flash accelerates workloads while reducing storage latency, however in comparison; IBM FlashCore NVMe modules deliver unparalleled performance for the price. Compare industry-standard NVMe drives to IBM FlashCore NVMe module performance of less than 70 micosecond latency, 1.5 million IOPs, 21 GB/s throughput maximums and 99.9999% availability (less than 32 seconds of unscheduled downtime per year).

IBM FlashSystem 5200 4662-6H2 Flash Storage Maximums and Specifications:
Processor/PCIe Gen: SkyLakeD 8C 2.3GHz / Gen 3 PCIE
Max bandwidth: 21 GB/s throughput
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Clustered max bandwidth/IOPS Response times: 84 GB/s, 6 million IOPS
Cores per control enclosure/cluster: 16 / 64
Max Cache per enclosure/cluster: 64 or 512 GB / 256 GB or 2.04 TB
Max capacity per 1U enclosure/expansion: 1.7 PB / 32 PB
Max Drives per system/cluster: 748/2,992
- Small form-factor enclosure: 24 x 2.5 in. drives
- Large form-factor enclosure: 12 x 3.5 in. drives
- High-density expansion enclosure: 92 x 3.5 in. drives
Maximum NVMe Slots: 12
Scale out with 2-way clustering for up to 4 systems
Scale up to 20 2U expansion units or 8 5U expansion units for 32 PB
Software: IBM Storage Insights and IBM Spectrum Virtualize software suite that includes Data migration, Data Reduction Pools with thin compression, Deduplication, Thin Provisioning, UNMAP, Remote mirroring, Easy Tier and FlashCopy.
Max front end host ports: 8
Host interfaces: 10 Gbps Ethernet (iSCSI), 25/10 Gbps Ethernet (iSCSI, iSER—iWARP, RoCE v2), 16 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC, FC-NVMe), 32 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC, FC-NVMe), 12Gbps SAS
User Interface: IBM Spectrum Virtualize web GUI and CLI
Supported Drive Types and Sizes:
- NVMe IBM FlashCore Modules: 4.8 TB, 9.6 TB, 19.2 TB, or 38.4 TB
- NVMe Industry-standard drives: 800 GB, 1.92 TB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB, 15.36 TB, and 30.72 TB
- NVMe SCM drives: 375 GB, 750 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB and 3.2 TB
- 10K SFF disk drives: 1.2 TB, 1.8 TB, and 2.4 TB
- 10K LFF disk drives: 1.2 TB, 1.8 TB, and 2.4 TB
- 7200 LFF Nearline disk drives: 4 TB, 6 TB, 8 TB, 10 TB, 12 TB, 14 TB, 16 TB, and 18 TB

Physical Dimensions: Height is 1.7 in. (4.3 cm) | Width is 17.5 in. (44.6 cm) | Depth is 30.3 in. (77 cm) | Weight is 43 lbs (fully configured depending on drives)
Warranty: 1-year with 9x5 next business-day onsite (upgradeable 24x7 on-site)

Other IBM FlashSystem Models include:
IBM FlashSystem 5000 FS5015 2072-2N2 2072-2N4
IBM FlashSystem FS5100 FS5035 2072-3N2 2072-3N2
IBM FlashSystem FS7200 2076-824 2076-U7C 
IBM FlashSystem FS7300 4657-924
IBM FlashSystem FS9500 4666-AH8
IBM FlashSystem FS9500R 4666-AH8

The FlashSystem 5200 allows companies sensitive to affordability, to start with a small capital investment for initial requirements, and add capacity and capabilities as business requirements grow. The IBM 4662-6H2 FlashSystem family member offers the same levels of functionality as other IBM FlashSystem family members, but in an efficient smaller form factor that enables enterprises to start with a very modest initial storage investment without sacrificing performance and then easily expand capacity and capabilities as needs grow and change. Starting with the FlashSystem 5200, IBM's FlashSystem family is NVMe-accelerated with control enclosures that are end-to-end NVMe-enabled, with flexibility to choose and mix between FlashCore Modules, industry standard NVMe drives and storage-class memory. The FlashSystems offer industry-leading performance and scalability with support for bare-metal, virtual, and containerized environments.

Built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize, which delivers a full range of industry-leading data services such as dynamic tiering, IBM FlashCopy management and data mobility among many other advanced data management features. Ready for hybrid cloud, with support for private, hybrid, or public cloud deployments. The solutions come with ready-to-use, proven, validated “cloud blueprints”.

Designed to address rising cyber threats with high-performance data encryption, by isolating immutable data copies with Safeguarded Copy, and speeding recovery with IBM FlashSystem Cyber Vault.
IBM Storage support for Ansible, the IBM Red Hat open source IT configuration management and automation platform continue to be enhanced including automation for HyperSwap for high availability configurations for mission-critical workloads. Cost-efficient, with innovative data reduction pool (DRP) technology that includes deduplication and hardware-accelerated compression technology1, plus SCSI UNMAP support and all the thin provisioning, copy management, and efficiency you’d expect from IBM Spectrum Virtualize based storage. Supporting hybrid storage, with multiple expansion enclosure options based on 12 Gb/s SAS that support both solid state drives (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD). AI-enhanced through the IBM Storage Insights analytics, resource management, and support platform. Plus, IBM Spectrum Virtualize functionality includes AI-based data placement for optimal data center performance and zero-downtime data migration.

IBM FlashSystem 5200 is the most compact storage system ever produced by IBM. It is designed to accelerate a wide range of enterprise deployments with bare metal, virtualized, or containerized servers. Leveraging IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM Storage Insights software and end-to-end NVMe protocols, these new systems bring the performance and functionality needed for almost any workload, delivering a lot more work using fewer drives and rack space than traditional SAS or even traditional flash systems, with as low as 50 microseconds latency3, as much as 1 petabytes of effective capacity in only one rack unit, HyperSwap high availability technology, 3-site replication, scalability and data reduction.

FlashSystem 5200 brings all the simplicity and innovation of other family members, then adds an extremely important new capability – entry-level NVMe all-flash flexibility and affordability. IBM FlashSystem 5200 offers storage solutions that are simple enough for every environment; powerful enough for all environments. IBM FlashSystem 5200 introduces affordable end-to-end NVMe systems that allows enterprises of all sizes to start “small” and grow as their business requires in both performance and capacity. A single FlashSystem 5200 with only three NVMe FlashCore Modules (FCM), delivers the same throughput as a system with twenty-four SAS SSDs. And, like all IBM FlashSystem models, it also leverages IBM Spectrum Virtualize for data management and hybrid cloud functionality.

The basic IBM FlashSystem is comprised of an NVMe dual controller 1U control enclosure that can support up to 12 FCM, industry standard SSDs, or storage-class memory drives. These drive technologies can be mixed in the same chassis and come in various sizes that provide up to 460TB of raw storage capacity and 1PB effective capacity within a single 1U system. Up to 512GB of controller cache is available with multiple 16/32 Gbps fibre channel, 12 Gbps SAS, or 10/25 Gbps Ethernet I/O adapters with iSCSI and NVMe RDMA options. The systems allow clustering for scale up to the multi-petabyte range, and the capability to connect up to 20 SAS expansion enclosures per system for nearly limitless scale out options.

IBM FlashSystem 5200 leverages the advantages of IBM FlashCore storage media that provides greater flash density and higher capacity than any industry-standard flash drives. Purpose engineered FCMs utilize powerful inline, hardware-accelerated data compression and encryption technologies that provide consistent compression and encryption across the full range of workloads – with no performance penalties. IBM invented several technologies to make QLC perform and endure as well as TLC. FCMs use QLC combined with dynamic SLC allocation, smart data placement (hotter read data placed on lowest latency pages) and read heat assessment. QLC enables a 38.4TB module (densest NVMe SSD in the industry). New FCM generation 3 includes improved compression capability that supports up to 116TB in a single FCM drive. Additionally, FCM 3s are planned to provide Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 Level 1 encryption with IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager or Gemalto SafeNet KeySecure centralized key management and full hot-swap capabilities.

IBM NVMe FlashCore Flash Storage Drives
IBM AGSA 4.8TB FlashCore Module 3rd Generation
IBM AGSB 9.6TB FlashCore Module 3rd Generation
IBM AGSC 19.2TB FlashCore Module 3rd Generation
IBM AGSD 38.4TB FlashCore Module 3rd Generation
IBM AGS5 4.8 TB NVMe Flash Core Module 2nd Generation
IBM AGS6 9.6 TB NVMe Flash Core Module 2nd Generation
IBM AGS7 19.2 TB NVMe Flash Core Module 2nd Generation
IBM AGS8 38.4 TB NVMe Flash Core Module 2nd Generation
IBM AGT1 800 GB NVMe Flash Drive
IBM AGT2 1.92 TB NVMe Flash Drive
IBM AGT3 3.84 TB NVMe Flash Drive
IBM AGT4 7.68 TB NVMe Flash Drive
IBM AGT5 15.36 TB NVMe Flash Drive
IBM AGT6 30.72TB NVMe Flash Drive
IBM AGTA 375 GB NVMe Storage Class Memory Drive
IBM AGTB 750 GB NVMe Storage Class Memory Drive
IBM AGTE 800 GB NVMe Storage Class Memory Drive
IBM AGTF 1.6 TB NVMe Storage Class Memory Drive

IBM SAS Flash Storage Drives
IBM AL4J 1.92TB 12 Gb SAS 3.5 Inch Flash Drive
IBM AL4K 3.84TB 12 Gb SAS 3.5 Inch Flash Drive
IBM AL4L 7.68TB 12 Gb SAS 3.5 Inch Flash Drive
IBM AL4M 15.36TB 12 Gb SAS 3.5 Inch Flash Drive
IBM AL4N 30.72TB 12 Gb SAS 3.5 Inch Flash Drive
IBM AL80 1.92TB 12 Gb SAS 2.5 Inch Flash Drive
IBM AL81 3.84TB 12 Gb SAS 2.5 Inch Flash Drive
IBM AL82 7.68TB 12 Gb SAS 2.5 Inch Flash Drive
IBM AL83 15.36TB 12 Gb SAS 2.5 Inch Flash Drive
IBM AL84 30.72TB 12 Gb SAS 2.5 Inch Flash Drive
IBM AL8A 800 GB 3DWPD 12 Gb SAS 2.5 Inch Flash Drive

IBM Hard Drives
IBM AL27 900 GB 10,000 rpm 12 Gb SAS 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL28 1.2 TB 10,000 rpm 12 Gb SAS 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL29 1.8 TB 10,000 rpm 12 Gb SAS 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL2A 2.4 TB 10,000 rpm 12 Gb SAS 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL39 4 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL3A 6 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL3B 8 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL3C 10 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL3D 12 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL3E 14 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL3F 16 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL3G 18 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL43 1.2 TB 10,000 rpm 12 Gb SAS 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL44 1.8 TB 10,000 rpm 12 Gb SAS 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL45 2.4 TB 10,000 rpm 12 Gb SAS 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL47 6 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL48 8 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL49 10 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL4A 12 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL4B 14 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL4C 16 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL4D 18 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 3.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL68 900 GB 10,000 rpm 12 Gb SAS 2.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL69 1.2 TB 10,000 rpm 12 Gb SAS 2.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL6A 1.8 TB 10,000 rpm 12 Gb SAS 2.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL6B 2.4 TB 10,000 rpm 12 Gb SAS 2.5 Inch HDD
IBM AL76 2 TB 7,200 rpm 12 Gb SAS NL 2.5 Inch HDD

IBM FlashSystem 5200 has three 12 Gb SAS expansion enclosure options:

4662-24G IBM FlashSystem 5200 small form factor (SFF) Expansion Enclosure Model 24G supports up to twenty-four 2.5-inch SAS drives
4662-12G FlashSystem 5200 large form factor (LFF) Expansion Enclosure Model 12G supports up to twelve 3.5-inch SAS drives
4662-92G FlashSystem 5200 high-density (HD) Expansion Enclosure Model 92G supports up to ninety-two SAS drives in 3.5-inch carriers
Expansion enclosures can be intermixed within a FlashSystem 5200 system.

FlashSystem 5200 systems scale up to 748 drives with the attachment of FlashSystem 5200 expansion enclosures. FlashSystem 5200 systems can be clustered to help deliver greater performance, bandwidth, and scalability. A FlashSystem 5200 clustered system can contain up to four FlashSystem 5200 systems and up to 2,992 drives.

IBM FlashSystem 5200 can operate in distributed RAID (DRAID) 1, 5, or 6 modes. A key advantage is its ability to operate at full DRAID protection and efficiency with only three drives. This means that cost-sensitive users can start with a smaller capital expenditure and add capacity as needed. IBM DRAID 1 data can be read from all three drives, which provides a performance boost over traditional RAID 1 approaches, as well as allowing full recovery with loss of one drive. And assuming DRAID 1, the systems can achieve a maximum 1.5 million input/outputs per second (IOPS), minimum 50 microsecond latency, and 21 GB/s throughput.

All IBM FlashSystem solutions leverage the proven award winning capabilities of IBM Spectrum Virtualize software-defined storage (SDS) for data and storage management. IBM Spectrum Virtualize has been helping enterprises improve infrastructure flexibility and data economics for more than 15 years. It offers an industry-leading spectrum of features and functionality, including enhanced cloud functionality, comprehensive data reduction, and support for leading-edge container technologies that can provide enterprises with the capabilities they need to capture and keep competitive advantage across the full spectrum of modern business environments.

IBM Spectrum Virtualize delivers a full range of sophisticated storage functionality, including:

• IBM HyperSwap for non-disruptive application and data mobility between data centers Support for host-side virtualization solutions, including VMware virtual machines, Microsoft Hyper-V, and IBM PowerVM, among others
• Support for more than 500 external, heterogeneous storage systems from a wide variety of vendors
• Powerful DRP technology that includes deduplication, compression, and automated thin provisioning
• IBM Easy Tier AI-driven automated tiering functionality
• Safeguarded Copy for isolated and immutable copies plus software-based encryption that can be extended across all managed systems
• IBM FlashCopy and IBM Remote Mirror for local and remote three-site replication

IBM FlashSystem 5200 solutions can lower both capital expenditures and operational costs by extending a rich set of data services across existing heterogeneous external storage or by adding SAS drive expansion enclosures, thanks to the extensive AI-enhanced storage resource management, predictive analytics, automated support, and data placement provided by IBM Spectrum Virtualize. Once under IBM Spectrum Virtualize management, data in external storage systems becomes part of the IBM FlashSystem solution and can be managed in the same way as internal drives. External systems inherit all the IBM Spectrum Virtualize functional richness and ease-of-use features incorporated into the IBM FlashSystem 5200 platform, including advanced replication, high-performance thin provisioning, encryption, isolated and immutable copies, compression, deduplication, and Easy Tier functionality that improve administrator productivity and boost storage utilization while also enhancing and extending the value of existing storage investments.

HyperSwap functionality enables a pair of IBM FlashSystem 5200 systems to support servers in multiple data centers. When combined with server data mobility functions such as VMware vMotion or IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility, HyperSwap enables nondisruptive storage and VM mobility between data centers up to 300 km (186 miles) apart. IBM Spectrum Virtualize three-site replication capability runs data copies at both metro and global distances to offer a variety of recovery point and time options.

IBM FlashSystem 5200 is not only compact with low total cost of ownership (TCO), the high density of FCM drives and the data reduction options within IBM Spectrum Virtualize help transform the economics of data storage. When DRP is applied to new or existing storage, they can significantly increase usable capacity while maintaining consistent application performance. This can substantially reduce costs for storage acquisition, rack space, power, and cooling, while extending the useful life of existing storage assets. DRP capabilities include:

• Block deduplication that works across all the storage in a DRP to minimize the number of identical blocks
• Compression technology that provides consistent performance across application workload patterns
• SCSI UNMAP support that de-allocates physical storage when operating systems delete logical storage constructs such as files in a file system

In addition to built-in cost-efficiency features, IBM FlashSystem 5200 capacity can be procured using the IBM Storage Utility pricing model. This offering allows you to predict monthly data capacity costs and only pay for the capacity you need, whether your data grows or shrinks. No need to over-purchase or lease large amounts of capacity for “just in case” needs. Simply use the data that your business needs and the IBM Storage Utility offering will take care of the rest.

IBM FlashSystem 5200 is designed to be easy to use from the very start. The innovative user interface enables administrators to perform configuration, management, and service tasks in a consistent manner over multiple storage systems, even from different vendors — vastly simplifying management and helping reduce the risk of errors. Plug-ins to support VMware vCenter help enable more efficient, consolidated management while a REST API and Ansible support help enable automated operations. IBM Storage Insights in the cloud and IBM Spectrum Control on premises provide organizations with an end-to-end view of storage health, long-term performance analytics and capacity statistics for IBM FlashSystem 5200 and the surrounding storage infrastructure.

IBM Spectrum Virtualize in FlashSystem storage solutions also provides enterprise-grade system availability and data security features that include nondisruptive data migration and remote mirroring using IBM HyperSwap technology, plus “six nines” availability, isolated and immutable data copies, hardware-accelerated data-at-rest encryption, and an IBM distributed RAID technology that can reduce disk rebuild times substantially compared to traditional RAID solutions. The systems leverage the cost advantages of multiple flash drive options and feature an intuitive user interface, synchronous/asynchronous replication, and more than 600 application programming interfaces (APIs). Plus, IBM FlashSystem provides affordable, nondisruptive upgrade paths that deliver increased performance, scalability, and functionality.

Systems linked with external networks, organizations are having to adopt a much more strict and in-depth security measures so that if the perimeter is breached, there are additional layers of security to protect critical information. IBM FlashSystem 5200 provides advanced capabilities that can help maximize data protection, security, and high availability to significantly reduce the risk of disruption and financial losses due to user errors, malicious destruction, or ransomware attacks. FlashSystem 5200 delivers the capability to enable this level of protection while also delivering high performance for applications.

With Safeguarded Copy, IBM protects your valued data form cyberattacks with immutable and isolated copies that are hidden, non-addressable and cannot be altered or deleted. In the event of an attack, these copies can be quickly restored to support recovery. Customized to your particular application mix, IBM FlashSystem Cyber Vault builds on IBM Safeguarded Copy to help reduce cyber attack recovery times from days to hours. In addition, physical isolation layers can also be created by storing sensitive copies in immutable storage, cloud environments or off-line write-once read many (WORM) tape devices to provide physical air-gap protection.

Organizations looking to adopt data resilience solutions that go beyond simple data backup and recovery, the IBM Spectrum Protect portfolio is the perfect complement for IBM FlashSystem. It provides unified end-to-end workload protection, both on-premises and in the cloud, including applications, VMs, file systems, SaaS workloads, AWS EC2 instances, and containers.

IBM FlashSystem 5200 provides advanced capabilities that can help maximize data protection, security and high availability to significantly reduce the risk of disruption and financial losses due to user errors, malicious destruction or ransomware attacks.

Greater storage visibility, insight, and control
Because data is the resource that drives your business, storage systems take on even greater importance. IBM Storage Insights and IBM Storage Insights Pro provide critical capabilities that enhance your experience with IBM Storage, including:

A single dashboard so you can see the status of all your IBM block storage at a glance
Trend information about capacity and performance so you can make better and more informed decisions
Storage health information that helps you bring your configuration in line with best practices
Monitoring of Brocade and Cisco switches and fabrics to help identify saturation, congestion, and fabric errors that might impact your storage performance
When support is needed, the ability to easily open a ticket, upload log information and view open tickets
Detailed configuration data available to IBM specialists to help close tickets quickly.

Delivered as a service from IBM Cloud at no charge, AI-enhanced Storage Insights is quick and easy to set up and requires no ongoing software maintenance. Storage Insights Pro is an upgrade that provides more detailed information and additional capabilities. IBM Spectrum Control software provides similar capability for clients who prefer an on-premises solution.

Hybrid cloud, virtualized and container environments
The challenge for organizations these days is how to take advantage of hybrid cloud technology without the expense of replacing current storage with cloud-capable storage systems. IBM FlashSystem 5200, when combined with IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud provides a consistent approach to the replication of heterogeneous storage between on-premises data centers and IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure. It also provides the ability to use cloud capabilities for setting up a disaster-recovery target or for workload migration between on-premises and cloud-based resources. By leveraging IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management software, cloud storage may be used for data copies as well.

The IBM Spectrum Virtualize functionality in IBM FlashSystem 5200 complements server virtualization technologies such as PowerVM, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware vSphere. Similar to provisioning virtualized servers, provisioning capacity with IBM FlashSystem 5200 is designed to become an almost entirely automated function.

Containers are an open-source technology that wraps applications with everything needed to run in any environment. Containerization is a key enabling technology for flexibly delivering workloads to private and public cloud and DevOps. IBM FlashSystem 5200 supports Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes container environments, accelerating the deployment of persistent volumes with the IBM block storage CSI driver, certified by Red Hat and IBM.

World-class support
IBM FlashSystem 5200 offers world-class customer support, product upgrade and guarantee programs:
IBM Storage Expert Care service and support is simple. Select from basic or advanced support options and the period that best fits your needs with predictable and upfront pricing that is a fixed percentage of the system cost.
The IBM Data Reduction Guarantee helps reduce planning risks and lower storage costs with baseline levels of data compression effectiveness in IBM Spectrum Virtualize-based offerings.
The IBM Controller Upgrade Program enables customers of designated all-flash IBM storage systems to reduce costs while maintaining leading-edge controller technology for essentially the cost of ongoing system maintenance.
The IBM High-Availability Guarantee helps enterprises avoid the costs and risks related to business downtime by ensuring the availability of business-critical data and storage systems.

Other IBM 5200 FlashSystem Features and Upgrades

Memory Cache
IBM ALG0 64 GB Base Cache
IBM ALG1 512 GB Base Cache
IBM ALGC 192 GB Cache Upgrade
IBM ALGD 512 GB Cache Upgrade

Adapters
IBM ALB3 16 Gb FC 4 Port Adapter Cards (Pair)
IBM ALB5 32 Gb FC 2 Port Adapter Cards (Pair)
IBM ALBJ 16 Gb FC 4 Port Adapter Cards (Pair)
IBM ALBK 32 Gb FC 2 Port Adapter Cards (Pair)
IBM ALBL 10 Gb Ethernet 4 Port Adapter Cards (Pair)
IBM ALBM 25/10 GbE (RoCE) 2 Port Adapter Cards (Pair)
IBM ALBN 25/10 GbE (iWARP) 2 Port Adapter Cards (Pair)
IBM ALBP 12 Gb SAS 4 Port Adapter Cards (Pair)
IBM ACHP 25 GbE Shortwave SFP28 Transceivers (Four)
IBM ACHQ 10 GbE Shortwave SFP+ Transceivers (Four)
IBM ACHU 16 Gb FC Longwave SFP Transceivers (Pair)
IBM ACJ2 10GbE SFP+ RJ45 Transceivers (Four)
IBM AE00 Variable Usage 1TB/month
IBM AE01 Variable Usage 10TB/month
IBM AE02 Variable Usage 100TB/month
IBM ALE0 Encryption Enablement
IBM ALEC Encryption USB Flash Drives (Four Pack)
IBM ALBQ SAS Expansion Enclosure Attach Card (Pair)

Power supply
IBM AHPE AC Power Supply (Pair)
IBM AHPA AC Power Supply High Efficiency (Pair)