Chapter 2. Technical overview
The technical overview topics provide information about the key concepts of IBM Elastic Storage System
3200.
Target audience of this chapter: Customers and IBM Service Support Representative (SSR).
System overview
An IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 enclosure contains Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) attached
SSD drives and a pair of server canisters.
IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 is an all-Flash array platform. This storage platform uses NVMe-
attached SSD drives to provide significant performance improvements as compared to SAS-attached flash
drives.
IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 can contain up to 24 NVMe-attached SSD drives. You can either use 12
drives in a half-populated configuration or 24 drives in a fully populated configuration. These drives are
accessible from the front of IBM Elastic Storage System 3200, as shown in the following figure.
Note: The minimum number of drives is 12. In a 12-drive configuration, drives must be plugged into slots
1 - 6 and then 13 - 18.
Figure 1. Front view of IBM Elastic Storage System 3200
Each IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 contains two identical I/O server canisters. The following figure
shows two I/O server canisters and two power modules.
Figure 2. Rear view of IBM Elastic Storage System 3200
The IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 system uses a single socket AMD EPYC Rome processor per I/O
canister node. The following table provides an overview of IBM Elastic Storage System 3200.
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