IBM Cloud Object Storage System Product Guide

IBM Cloud Object Storage Gen2 hardware appliances

This chapter provides an overview of the IBM Cloud Object Storage second-generation (Gen2) hardware appliances and includes the following topics:

•3.1, “Gen2 hardware appliance overview” on page 52

•3.3, “Appliance specifications” on page 69

•3.4, “Hardware options” on page 70

•3.5, “Performance” on page 71

•3.6, “Rack guidance” on page 71

3.1 Gen2 hardware appliance overview

In May 2019, IBM introduced the second-generation hardware appliances for IBM Cloud Object Storage (IBM COS). The new appliances ...