Hosts 2-way i/o controllers disks, Linear-scalable architecture – IBM DS8000 User Manual

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Chapter 6. IBM TotalStorage DS8000 model overview and scalability

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Linear-scalable architecture

The following two figures illustrate how you can realize the linear scalability in the DS8000
series.

Figure 6-6 2-way model components

I/O

Enclosure

RIO-G

Device
Adapter

Host
Adapter

Data Cache

and

Persistent

Memory

2-way

processor

Processor Complex

Hosts

2-way I/O controllers

Disks

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