or 32 Gbit/s adapters, and iSER (iSCSI Extensions for RDMA) or iSCSI on 25GbE adapters. The Control Enclosure holds 24 2.5" NVMe flash drives or 24 2.5" NVMe FlashCore modules (FlashCore modules contain IBM MicroLatency technology with built-in hardware compression and encryption). Two node canisters, each with two 1.7 GHz 8-core Skylake processors and integrated hardware-assisted compression acceleration Cache: 128 GiB (per I/O group) standard, with optional 256 GiB or 1.15 TiB per I/O group (node pair) Connection: 32 Gbit/s fibre channel (FC) with NVMe support, 16 Gbit/s FC with NVMe support, 25 Gbit/s iSER and on board 10 Gbit/s iSCSI connectivity options Clustering support over Ethernet using RDMA as well as Fibre Channel Ability to cluster with older generations Storwize V7000 systems and with IBM FlashSystem 9100 Software Details: First supported on the Storwize V7000 8.2.0.2 software. Storwize V7000 Gen 2+ The IBM Storwize V7000 SFF Control Enclosure Model 624, announced 23 August 2016, features two node canisters and up to 256 GiB cache (system total) in a 2U, 19-inch rack mount enclosure. 1 Gbit/s iSCSI connectivity is standard, with options for 16 Gbit/s FC and 10 Gbit/s iSCSI/FCoE connectivity. It holds up to 24 2.5" SAS drives and supports the attachment of up to 20 Storwize V7000 expansion enclosures. IBM Storwize V7000 Gen 2+ is an updated Storwize V7000 Gen 2 with a newer CPU, doubled cache memory and faster FC options, integrated compression acceleration, and additional scalability with the following features: Two node canisters, each with a 10-core Broadwell processor and integrated hardware-assisted compression acceleration Cache: 128 GiB (per I/O group) standard, with optional 256 GiB per I/O group (node pair) for Real-time Compression workloads Connection: 16 Gbit/s Fibre Channel (FC), 10 Gbit/s iSCSI / Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and 1 Gbit/s iSCSI connectivity options Software Details: First supported on the Storwize V7000 7.7.1 software. Storwize V7000 Gen 2 The IBM Storwize V7000 SFF Control Enclosure Model 524, announced 6 May 2014, features two node canisters and up to 128 GiB cache (system total) in a 2U, 19-inch rack mount enclosure. 1 Gbit/s iSCSI connectivity is standard, with options for 8 Gbit/s FC and 10 Gbit/s iSCSI/FCoE connectivity. It holds up to 24 2.5" SAS drives and supports the attachment of up to 20 Storwize V7000 expansion enclosures. IBM Storwize V7000 next-generation models offer increased performance and connectivity, integrated compression acceleration, and additional scalability with the