Deployment recommendations

Hardware with a minimum of 10 GbE interconnect and a RAM capacity of 256 GB is recommended for a full-scale deployment of an IBM Cloud Object Storage System™ with Embedded Accesser® Appliance functions.

Table 1. IBM Cloud Object Storage Slicestor® appliances
System CPU Model Cores Memory Interconnect Recommendation Number of Devices in Storage Pool Vault Limit
S2104 E5-2620 6 16 GB* 1 GbE NOT RECOMMENDED   NA
S1440 E5-2609v2 6 32 GB* 1 GbE NOT RECOMMENDED   NA
S1440 E5-2609v2 6 32 GB* 10 GbE   100 100
S2212 E5-2620 6 32 GB* 1 GbE NOT RECOMMENDED   NA
S2212 E5-2620 6 32 GB* 10 GbE   100 100
S2440 E5-2620 6 64 GB* 1 GbE NOT RECOMMENDED    
S2440 E5-2620 6 64 GB* 10 GbE   100 300
S2248 E5-2637v3 4 128GB 1GbE NOT RECOMMENDED    
S2248 E5-2637v3 4 128 GB 10 GbE   100 500
S2248 E5-2637v3 4 128 GB 40 GbE   100 500

*If an Embedded Accesser® Appliance is used with Concentrated Dispersal, the minimum amount of memory is 128 GB.