IBM 9.6TB Flash Core Module

The IBM 4662 Model UH6 is the FlashSystem 5200 hardware component to be utilized in the Storage Utility Offering space. It is physically and functionally identical to the FlashSystem 5200 Model 6H2 with the exception of variable capacity billing. The variable capacity billing uses IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights to monitor the system usage, allowing allocated storage usage above a base subscription rate to be billed per TB, per month. Allocated storage is identified as storage that is allocated to a specific host (and unusable to other hosts), whether data is written or not. For thin- provisioning, the data that is actually written is considered used. For thick provisioning, total allocated volume space is considered used.