2076-324: IBM Storwize V7000 Control Enclosure – Gen1 – 24 2.5-inch drives (two 10 Gbps iSCSI/FCoE Ethernet ports)

IBM Storwize V7000 Model: 2076-324

The IBM 2076-324 Storwize V7000 Gen1 10 GbE Control Enclosure is in a 2U rack-mount form factor with dual-active RAID controllers. It accepts 2.5 inch SFF drives and can hold up to 24 of them. The primary difference between this model and the 2076-112, 2076-124, 2076-212, 2076-224 models is that they come with 10 GbE ports to deliver 10 Gigabit iSCSI networks for your data. This allows host systems to connect directly via iSCSI without the need for FC cables.

This model provides one IBM Gen1 Storwize V7000 control enclosure for 2.5-inch drives (with two 10 Gbps iSCSI/FCoE Ethernet ports) - 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.