following features: Chassis: 2U rack-mountable Two node canisters, each with an 8-core Ivy Bridge Intel Xeon E5-2628lv2 processor and integrated hardware-assisted compression acceleration Cache: 64 GiB (per I/O group) standard, with optional 128 GiB per I/O group (node pair) for Real-time Compression workloads Connection: 8 Gbit/s Fibre Channel (FC), 10 Gb iSCSI / Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and 1 Gb iSCSI connectivity options Four 1 Gbit/s Ethernet ports standard for 1 Gb iSCSI connectivity and IP management per node canister. One 1 Gbit/s Ethernet port is dedicated for Technician access Storage: 12 Gbit/s SAS expansion enclosures supporting 12 3.5" large form factor (LFF) or 24 2.5" small form factor (SFF) drives Scaling for up to 504 drives per I/O group with the attachment of 20 Storwize V7000 expansion enclosures and up to 1,056 drives in a four-way clustered configuration The ability to be added into existing clustered systems with previous generation Storwize V7000 systems Compatibility with IBM Storwize V7000 Unified File Modules for unified storage capability All models include a three-year warranty with customer replaceable unit (CRU) and on-site service. Optional warranty service upgrades are available for enhanced levels of warranty service. Software Details: First supported on the Storwize V7000 7.3.0 software. The 7.4.0 software adds support for protection (SCSI T10 standard data integrity field (DIF)), encryption at rest and 4 KiB block drives. Storwize V7000 (Gen 1) Storwize V7000 consists of one to four control enclosures and up to 36 expansion enclosures, for a maximum of 40 enclosures altogether. It can scale up to 960 disks and 1.44PB raw internal capacity. Hardware details: Chassis: 2U rack-mountable Two node canisters, each with an 4-core Intel Xeon C3539 Cache: 16 GiB memory per control enclosure (8 GiB per internal controller) as a base Connection: For each control enclosure: Eight 8 Gbit/s Fibre Channel ports (four 8 Gbit/s FC ports per controller), four 1 Gbit/s iSCSI and optionally four 10 Gbit/s iSCSI/FCoE host ports (two 1 Gbit/s iSCSI and optionally two 10 Gbit/s iSCSI/FCoE ports per controller) or four 25 Gbit/s iSER host ports Storage: Up to 48 TB of physical storage per enclosure using 4 TB near-line SAS disk drives, or up to 28.8 TB physical storage per enclosure using 1.2 TB SAS 10K disk drives Control enclosures support attachment of up to 9 expansion enclosures with configurations up to 360 TB physical internal storage capacities (for Storwize V7000, up