Must be a standalone storage array appliance that can fit into a standard 19- inch rack Scalability: Scale-out architecture to support a minimum of 2 controller node pairs with capability to expand beyond 6 controllers node pairs Provide Active-Active bidirectional replication and Asynchronous replication. Minimum 300 TB of raw physical storage before any compression or deduplication or RAID redundancy Minimum 5:1 ratio usable storage after storage compression and deduplication and storage RAID redundancy Data reduction – data compression and deduplication built-in with no separate appliance or server Provide Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVME) compatibility Minimum 750,000 IOPS in storage performance Under < 100 microseconds (µs) performance latencies Minimum 8 x 32Gb Fibre-Channel connections with Gbics included Support a minimum of 5 million secure hardware-based storage array snapshots. Scalable to support up to 300 NVMe SSDs Minimum of 4 x 10Gb/25Gb Ethernet IP network connections with Gbics included for replication services. Maximum of 16 x 10 Gb/25Gb Ethernet IP network connections for replication services. Support Cloud Tiering of snapshots to S3 buckets Support the following storage protocols: Block, File, Mainframe Minimum of 6 FICON (Fiber Channel) adapters that support 16Gbps or higher for connectivity with mainframes systems
