IBM DS8900F Product Guide Release 9.1

IBM DS8900F Product Guide Release 9.1

by Peter Kimmel
Released December 2020
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738459240

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Book description

Built on over 50 years of enterprise storage expertise, the IBM® DS8000® series is the flagship of disk storage systems within the IBM System Storage portfolio.

As of October 2020, the DS8900F with DS8000 Release 9.1 is the latest addition. The DS8900F is an all-flash system exclusively, and it offers two classes:


  • DS8910F: Flexibility Class

The flexibility class delivers significant performance improvements compared to the previous IBM DS8880F generation.

  • DS8950F: Agility Class

The agility class is efficiently designed to consolidate all your mission-critical workloads for IBM Z®, IBM LinuxONE, IBM Power Systems, and distributed environments under a single all-flash storage solution.

This IBM Redbooks® Product Guide gives an overview of the features and functions that are available with the IBM DS8900F models running microcode Release 9.1 (Bundle 89.10 / Licensed Machine Code 7.9.10).

Product information

  • Title: IBM DS8900F Product Guide Release 9.1
  • Author(s): Peter Kimmel
  • Release date: December 2020
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738459240