New Storage Server Options in Spectrum Fusion HCI 2.4
On December 15, the new 2.4 version of IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI was released. From a system hardware perspective, the most significant change in this release is the availability of powerful new storage servers. The new storage servers have a total of 64 cores (128 threads) of processing power that comes from two AMD EPYC 3 7543 processors. To support the applications using all these cores, there is 1024GB of RAM in each server, which works out to be 16GB/core. While it's true that such 64-core servers were already available for Spectrum Fusion HCI, what is different now is that these servers come with a minimum of two Samsung 7.68TB PM1733 PCIe Gen 4 NVMe drives. And they can be expanded to have up to 10 of these drives. With these new storage servers come new options for creating the base storage cluster in the system. Previously, because there was only one storage server configuration available, there was only one way to build the base storage cluster and that wa