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Property

Maximum
Number
System (Cluster) Properties

Nodes per system (cluster)

Nodes per fabric

64

I/O groups per system

Fabrics per system

Inter-cluster partnerships per

system

Node Properties
Logins per node Fibre Channel
port

512

iSCSI sessions per node

256

Managed Disk Properties

Managed disks (MDisks) per

system

Managed disks per storage pool

(managed disk group)
Storage pools per system
Managed disk extent size
Capacity for an individual internal
managed disk (array)

4096

128
128
8192 MB

1 PB

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Capacity for an individual external

managed disk

1 PB

Total storage capacity manageable

per system

32 PB

Volume (Virtual Disk) Properties

Volumes (VDisks) per system

8192

Volumes per I/O group

(volumes per caching I/O group)

2048

Volumes accessible per I/O group

8192

Thin-provisioned (space-efficient)
volume copies per system

8192

Compressed volume copies per

system
Compressed volume copies per I/O
group

800
200

Volumes per storage pool

Fully-allocated volume capacity

256 TB

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Thin-provisioned (space-efficient)
volume capacity

256 TB

Host mappings per system

20000

Mirrored Volume (Virtual Disk) Properties

Copies per volume

Volume copies per system

8192

Total mirrored volume capacity

per I/O group

1024 TB

Generic Host Properties

Host objects (IDs) per system

1024

Host objects (IDs) per I/O group

256

Volume mappings per host object

512

Total Fibre Channel ports and

iSCSI names per system

2048

Total Fibre Channel ports and

iSCSI names per I/O group

512

Total Fibre Channel ports and

iSCSI names per host object

512

Fibre Channel Host Properties (including hosts attached using

Fibre Channel hosts per system
Fibre Channel host ports per
system

1024
2048
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Fibre Channel hosts per I/O group

Fibre Channel host ports per I/O
group
Fibre Channel hosts ports per host
object (ID)

256
512
512

iSCSI Host Properties

iSCSI hosts per system
iSCSI hosts per I/O group
iSCSI names per host object
iSCSI names per I/O group

1024
256
256
256

Copy Services Properties

Remote Copy (Metro Mirror and
Global
Mirror) relationships per
system

8192

Remote Copy relationships per

consistency group

Remote Copy consistency

groups per system

256

Total Metro Mirror and Global

Mirror volume capacity per I/O
group

1024 TB

Total number of Global Mirror

with Change Volumes
relationships per system

256

FlashCopy mappings per system

4096

FlashCopy targets
per source
FlashCopy mappings
per consistency group
FlashCopy consistency
groups per system
Total FlashCopy volume capacity
per I/O group

256
512
127
1024 TB

Internal Storage System Properties

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Drives per 2145-CF8 node

Drives per 2145-CG8 node
Min-Max member drives per
RAID-0 array

4
4
01/04/14

Min-Max member drives per

RAID-1 array

02/02/14

Min-Max member drives per

RAID-10 array

02/08/14

Hot spare drives

External Storage System Properties

Storage system WWNNs per
system (cluster)

1024

Storage system WWPNs per

system (cluster)

1024

WWNNs per storage system

16

WWPNs per WWNN

16

LUNs (managed disks) per storage

system

System and User Management Properties

User accounts per system

400

User groups per system

256

Authentication servers per system

NTP servers per system

iSNS servers per system

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Concurrent open SSH sessions per

system

10

Event Notification Properties

SNMP servers per system

Syslog servers per system

Email (SMTP) servers per system

Email users (recipients) per system

12

LDAP servers per system

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Comments
System (Cluster) Properties
Arranged as four I/O groups

Maximum number of SVC and V7000 nodes that can be present on the same Fibre Channel fabric, with visibility of each oth
Each containing two nodes
The number of counterpart Fibre Channel SANs which are supported
- Up to 4 fabrics using native Fibre Channel ports
- Up to 2 fabrics using FCoE ports
A system may partnered with up to three remote systems. No more than four systems may be in the same connected set

Node Properties

Includes logins from server HBAs, disk controller ports, node ports within the same system and node ports from remote syste
512 in IP failover mode (when partner node is unavailable)

Managed Disk Properties

The maximum number of logical units which can be managed by a cluster.

This number includes external MDisks which have not been configured into storage pools (managed disk groups)

Clustered systems containing 2145-8F2 or 2145-8F4 node types should also refer to the additional configuration limits for
external storage systems further down in this table.

No limit is imposed beyond the maximum number of drives per array limits.
Maximum size is dependent on the extent size of the Storage Pool.
Comparison Table: Maximum Volume, MDisk and System capacity for each extent size.

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Note: External managed disks larger than 2 TB are only supported for certain types of storage systems. Refer to the supporte
hardware matrix for further details.
Maximum size is dependent on the extent size of the Storage Pool.
Comparison Table: Maximum Volume, MDisk and System capacity for each extent size.

Maximum requires an extent size of 8192 MB to be used

This limit represents the per system maximum of 2^22 extents.
Maximum size is dependent on the extent size of the Storage Pool.
Comparison Table: Maximum Volume, MDisk and System capacity for each extent size.

Volume (Virtual Disk) Properties

Maximum requires an 8-node cluster; refer to the volumes per I/O group limit below

No limit is imposed here beyond the volume copies per system limit.

Maximum requires an 8-node cluster

No limit is imposed beyond the volumes per system limit

Maximum size for an individual fully-allocated volume.

Maximum size is dependent on the extent size of the Storage Pool.
Comparison Table: Maximum Volume, MDisk and System capacity for each extent size.

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Maximum size for an individual thin-provisioned volume

Maximum size is dependent on the extent size of the Storage Pool.
Comparison Table: Maximum Volume, MDisk and System capacity for each extent size.

See also - volume mappings per host object below

Mirrored Volume (Virtual Disk) Properties

The maximum number of volumes cannot all have the maximum number of copies

Generic Host Properties

A host object may contain both Fibre Channel ports and iSCSI names

Refer to the additional Fibre Channel and iSCSI host limits below

Fibre Channel Host Properties (including hosts attached using FCoE)

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iSCSI Host Properties

Copy Services Properties

This can be any mix of Metro Mirror and Global Mirror relationships.
Maximum requires an 8-node cluster (volumes per I/O group limit applies)

No limit is imposed beyond the Remote Copy relationships per system limit

This limit is the total capacity for all master and auxiliary volumes in the I/O group.
Note: Do not use Volumes larger than 2TB in Global Mirror with Change Volumes relationships.

Internal Storage System Properties

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All drives in a RAID-0 array must be located in the same node

The pair of drives must contain one drive from one node in the I/O group and one drive from the other node in the same I/O
group

The drives are specified as a sequence of drive pairs. Each pair of drives must contain one drive from a node in the I/O grou
and a drive from the other node in the same I/O group
No limit is imposed

External Storage System Properties

Clustered systems containing 2145-8F2 or 2145-8F4 node types should limit the number of controller ports to 4 per manage
disk (LUN) in configurations with more than 2000 managed disks on a single storage system (controller).

No limit is imposed beyond the managed disks per system (cluster) limit

System and User Management Properties

Includes the default user accounts
Includes the default user groups

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Event Notification Properties

Email servers are used in turn until the email is successfully sent

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Extent size (MB)

16
32
64
128
256
512
1024
2048
4096
8192

Maximum non thinprovisioned volume

capacity in GB
2048 (2 TB)
4096 (4 TB)
8192 (8 TB)
16,384 (16 TB)
32,768 (32 TB)
65,536 (64 TB)
131,072 (128 TB)
262,144 (256 TB)
262,144 (256 TB)
262,144 (256 TB)

Maximum thin-provisioned
volume capacity in GB

Maximum MDisk
capacity in GB

2000
4000
8000
16000
32000
65000
130000
260000
262144
262144

2048 (2 TB)
4096 (4 TB)
8192 (8 TB)
16,384 (16 TB)
32,768 (32 TB)
65,536 (64 TB)
131,072 (128 TB)
262,144 (256 TB)
524,288 (512 TB)
1,048,576 (1024 TB)

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Total storage capacity

manageable per system*
64 TB
128 TB
256 TB
512 TB
1 PB
2 PB
4 PB
8 PB
16 PB
32 PB

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