IBM Fusion HCI System Levels Up
IBM Fusion HCI System has "leveled up" over the past several months bringing powerful new hardware capabilities to the platform as well as more choice and flexibility in how the system can be configured to meet application needs. The primary building blocks of a Fusion HCI System are the servers that provide storage and compute resources and these are now more powerful. Both the 32-core and 64-core servers now come with Intel Xeon 4 "Sapphire Rapids" processors and high-speed DDR5 RAM. The 32-core servers come standard with 256GB of RAM that can be optionally doubled to 512GB RAM. The 64-core servers come standard with 1024GB RAM which can also be doubled to give 2048GB of RAM -- that's 32 GB of RAM per core! The performance and choice of Fusion HCI storage options have also leveled up. New Samsung PM1743 PCIe Gen 5 NVMe drives are now used to create the storage cluster, giving a performance boost over the previous Gen 4 drives. And now both 3.84TB and...