2076-212: IBM Storwize V7000 Expansion Enclosure – Gen1 – 3.5-inch drives

IBM Storwize V7000 Model: 2076-212

The IBM 2076-212 Storwize V7000 Gen1 Expansion Enclosure is in a 2U rack-mount form factor. It accepts 3.5 inch LFF drives and can hold up to 12 of them. 2076-212 includes dual-switched 6 Gbps Environmental service modules (ESMs), and dual power supplies with cooling components.

This model provides one IBM Gen1 Storwize V7000 expansion enclosure for 3.5-inch drives - HDD, SSD, NL or mix

IBM Storwize V7000 was originally developed from Enterprise Level tech, but targeted at mid-range buyers.
Now that they have been on the market for a while, pricing has come down to Small Business levels, as well.

One enclosure maxes out at 12 or 24 drives (HDD or SSD) and can be expanded to 240 drives with additional enclosures.

The V7000 supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10 and SAN-attached 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) host connectivity (and 1 GbE iSCSI host connectivity).
It also offers a complete set of SAN Volume Controller functions including FlashCopy, RemoteCopy, VDisk Mirroring, thin provisioning, and an easy to use web-based user interface.