System 9200
The IBM System 9200 (9200 and 9200R) system has two different types of enclosures: control enclosures and expansion enclosures.
▪A control enclosure manages your storage systems, communicates with the host, and manages interfaces. In addition, it can house up to 24 NVMe-capable drives. These drives can be either
industry-standard NVMe types or the exclusive IBM FlashCore Module(FCM) type and some optional SCM class drives.
▪An expansion enclosure increases the available capacity of an IBM System 9200 cluster. It communicates with the control enclosure through a dual pair of 12 Gbps SAS connections. These
expansion enclosures can house many (SSD) SAS type drives, depending on which model of enclosure is ordered.
The System 9200R is available as a precabled, preconfigured rack with a dedicated Fibre Channel network for clustering. Available with two, three, or four clustered System 9200 systems and
up to four expansion enclosures, it can be ordered as a System 9202R, 9203R and 9204R.