This IBM® Redpaper® Product Guide describes the IBM Storage FlashSystem® 9500 solution, which is a next-generation IBM Storage FlashSystem control enclosure.

Combining advanced flash technology with NVMe and IBM FlashCore, IBM Storage FlashSystem 9500 delivers exceptional performance, reliability, and availability. Designed to withstand cyberattacks, this solution is essential for organizations prioritizing data protection and business continuity.

IBM Storage FlashSystem 9500 provides a rich set of software-defined storage (SDS) features that are delivered by IBM Storage Virtualize, including the following examples:

- Data reduction and deduplication

- Dynamic tiering

- Thin-provisioning

- Snapshots

- Cloning

- Cyber resilience

- Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT)

- Policy-based replication and policy-based high availability

- Scale-out and scale-up configurations further enhance capacity and throughput for better availability

This Redpaper applies to IBM Storage Virtualize V8.7.

- Overview

- Benefits

- Placing your IBM FlashSystem 9500 in your infrastructure

- IBM FlashSystem 9500 enclosure overview

- Features of IBM FlashSystem 9500

- What is new with IBM Storage Virtualize V8.7.0

- IBM FlashCore technology

- IBM Storage Expert Care

- Storage Assurance

- IBM Storage FlashSystem 9500 GUI

- IBM Storage FlashSystem 9500 hardware component overview

- Scaling up and scaling out

- Options and feature codes

- Software and licensing

- Ordering information

- Related information