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2072-24C: IBM / Lenovo V3700 Controller 24 slot 2.5 inch SFF
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The IBM 2072-24C Storwize V3700 SFF Dual Control Enclosure has two node canisters, with 4 GB or 8 GB cache per canister.
Its form factor is 2U 19-inch rack mount enclosure.
6 Gb SAS and 1 Gb iSCSI connectivity are standard and options for 8 Gb FC or 10 Gb iSCSI/FCoE connectivity are available.
The IBM 2072-24C Storwize V3700 holds up to twenty-four 2.5-inch SAS drives with the option of attaching of up to nine Storwize V3700 2072-24E expansion enclosures.
Mixing Lenovo and IBM Storwize V3700 (or any Storwize) hardware is not permitted.
The firmware for Storwize for Lenovo locks out IBM Machine types and vice-versa.
Check with us on full compatibility for your IBM OR Lenovo Storwize hardware.
| Type Model | Announced | Available | Marketing Withdrawn |
| 2072-12C | 9/9/2014 | 9/12/2014 | 1/14/2017 |
| 2072-12E | 9/9/2014 | 9/12/2014 | 1/13/2018 |
| 2072-2DC | 9/9/2014 | 9/12/2014 | 1/14/2017 |
| 2072-2DE | 9/9/2014 | 9/12/2014 | 1/13/2018 |
| 2072-24C | 9/9/2014 | 9/12/2014 | 1/14/2017 |
| 2072-24E | 9/9/2014 | 9/12/2014 | 1/13/2018 |
Compatible with Storwize V3700 and others. Check with Vertical Enterprise for full compatibility with your hardware particularly if you have questions concerning IBM / Lenovo Storwize compatibilty.
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| Form factor | Storwize V3700 Controller Unit: 2U rack mount Storwize V3700 Expansion Unit: 2U rack mount |
| Controller unit configuration | Dual controller (known as node canister) configuration. |
| RAID levels | RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10; Distributed RAID 5 and 6 |
| Controller cache | 8 GB per system upgradeable to 16 GB. Battery-backed. |
| Drive bays | |
| Up to 240 SFF drive bays | 24 SFF drive bays in the controller unit |
| 24 SFF drive bays in the expansion unit | |
| up to 9x expansion units | |
| Up to 120 LFF drive bays | 12 LFF drive bays in the controller unit |
| 12 LFF drive bays in the expansion unit | |
| up to 9x expansion units | |
| Intermix of SFF and LFF Support? | Yes |
| Drive technology | SAS and NL SAS HDDs and SAS SSDs. |
| Intermix of HDDs and SSDs is supported. | |
| Drive connectivity | Dual-ported 6 Gb SAS drive attachment infrastructure. |
| Controller unit with two node canisters (ports per one node canister): | |
| 24x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (SFF enclosure) | |
| 12x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (LFF enclosure) | |
| 1x 6 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) expansion port for the attachment of the expansion units | |
| Expansion unit with two expansion canisters (ports per one expansion canister): | |
| 24x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (SFF enclosure) | |
| 12x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (LFF enclosure) | |
| 2x 6 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) expansion ports for the daisy chained | |
| Drives | |
| SFF drives | 200 GB, 400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB, and 3.2 TB SAS SSDs |
| 300 GB and 600 GB 15K rpm SAS HDDs | |
| 600 GB, 900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm SAS HDDs | |
| 2 TB 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs | |
| LFF drives | 300 GB and 600 GB 15K rpm SAS HDDs |
| 900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm SAS HDDs | |
| 4 TB, 6 TB, and 8 TB 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs | |
| Storage capacity | Up to 960 TB (120x 8 TB NL SAS HDDs) |
| Host connectivity | Standard ports (per controller unit with two node canisters): |
| 6x 6 Gb SAS host ports (Mini-SAS HD, SFF-8644) (3 ports per node canister) | |
| 4x 1 Gb iSCSI host ports (UTP, RJ-45) (2 ports per node canister) | |
| Optional additional ports on host interface cards (per controller unit with two node canisters): | |
| 8x 6 Gb SAS host ports (Mini-SAS HD, SFF-8644) (4 ports per node canister) | |
| 8x 1 Gb iSCSI host ports (UTP, RJ-45) (4 ports per node canister) | |
| 4x 10 Gb iSCSI or FCoE SFP+ host ports (SW fiber optics, LC) (2 ports per node canister) | |
| 8x 8 Gb FC SFP host ports (SW or LW fiber optics, LC) (4 ports per node canister) | |
| Host OS | Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6, and 7 | |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10, 11, and 12 | |
| VMware vSphere 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, and 6.0. | |
| Standard software features | Virtualization of internal storage |
| Thin Provisioning | |
| One-way Data Migration | |
| FlashCopy snapshots (up to 64 targets) | |
| Optional features | Turbo Performance |
| Easy Tier | |
| Remote Mirroring | |
| FlashCopy snapshots (up to 2,040 targets) | |
| Performance (non-Turbo / Turbo) | Up to 200,000 / 295,000 cache read IOPS Up to 45,000 / 67,000 disk read IOPS |
| Up to 12,300 / 14,000 disk write IOPS | |
| Up to 23,000 / 33,000 disk mixed (70% read/30% write) IOPS Up to 3.3 / 5.95 GBps sequential cache read throughput | |
| Up to 2.5 / 4.1 GBps sequential disk read throughput | |
| Up to 0.81 / 1.4 GBps sequential disk write throughput | |
| Configuration maximums | |
| Maximum number of storage pools | 1,024 |
| Maximum number of logical volumes | 2,048 |
| Maximum logical volume size | 16 |
| Maximum number of drives in a distributed RAID array | 128 |
| Maximum number of distributed RAID arrays | 10 |
| Maximum hot spare drives | No limit |
| Maximum number of host ports | 2,048 |
| Maximum number of hosts | 256 |
| Maximum number of host ports per one host | 32 |
| Maximum number of snapshots | 2,040 (requires an optional license) |
| Maximum number of remote mirroring relationships | 2,048 (requires an optional license) |
| Cooling | Redundant cooling with the fan modules that are built into power supplies. |
| Power supply | Two redundant hot-swap 735 W AC or 800 W DC power supplies. |
| Hot-swap parts | Node canisters |
| expansion canisters | |
| SFP/SFP+ transceivers | |
| drives | |
| power supplies with fans | |
| Management interfaces | 2x 1 GbE ports (UTP, RJ-45) |
| Web-based GUI | |
| SSH CLI | |
| SMI-S | |
| SNMP and email notifications | |
| Security features | Secure Socket Layer (SSL) |
| Secure Shell (SSH) | |
| user level security | |
| LDAP authentication | |
| Dimensions | Height: 87 mm (3.4 in.) |
| width: 483 mm (19.0 in.) | |
| depth: 556 mm (21.9 in.) | |
| Weight | |
| 3.5-inch controller unit | Empty - 18.0 kg (39.6 lb); Fully configured - 28.3 kg (62.2 lb) |
| 3.5-inch expansion unit | Empty - 16.4 kg (36.1 lb); Fully configured - 26.7 kg (58.8 lb) |
| 2.5-inch controller unit | Empty - 19.0 kg (41.8 lb); Fully configured - 27.3 kg (60.0 lb) |
| 2.5-inch expansion unit | Empty - 16.7 kg (36.7 lb); Fully configured - 25.0 kg (55.2 lb) |