IBM Elastic Storage Server overview (5104)
The IBM® Elastic Storage Server (5104) is software-defined storage that combines IBM Spectrum Scale software, which provides the clustered file systems, and the IBM POWER9® architecture.
The IBM Elastic Storage
Server (5104) can be configured with
the following hardware building blocks to create an enterprise-level solution:
- IBM Elastic Storage Server Data Server and Management Server (5104-22C)
- IBM ESS expansion - Model 106 (5147-106)
- 648-Port EDR InfiniBand Switch (8828-ED2) and Mellanox Ethernet switch (8831-S52)
- 7965-S42 rack
This information supports the hardware building blocks for IBM Elastic Storage Server (5104). Specifically, identification data is provided for the server, the system storage, the Ethernet switch, and the rack.