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SGI InfiniteStorage™ 5500 Storage System Data Sheet
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SGI InfiniteStorage 5500
Storage System

Key Features
Industry leading price
Space efficiency with highest drive
density per U of rack space
Robust and feature-rich
SANtricity storage manager

A New Standard in Price, Performance
and Scalable Flexibility

The IS5500 storage system meets both an organization’s
demanding performance and capacity requirements while
not sacrificing simplicity or efficiency. This sixth-generation
storage system offers ultimate flexibility, providing
organizations with a storage solution to maximize storage
density, reduce operational expenditures through efficiencies,
and ensure high productivity.

Unrelenting Performance
Delivering unrelenting throughput and IOPs, the IS5500
Storage system supports SGI’s tradition of balanced
and sustainable performance. With up to 6,000 MB/s
and 150,000 IOPs in sustained drive reads, the IS5500
storage system is equally adept at delivering throughput
to bandwidth-intensive applications and IOPs to databasesdriven applications. The ability to achieve such high
performance benchmarks also places the IS5500 in a position
to effectively support environments with massive streaming,
capacity an availability requirements such as high performance
computing, rich media, and life sciences research.

Two Versions of the Platform
IS5500-SGI tuned & IS5500-standard — The platform
comes in the base IS5500 SGI tuned, with especially tuned
firmware intended for SGI high-performance compute
environments. In addition the IS5500-standard version
of the platform comes with generic firmware, and is ideal
for customers integrating the platform into heterogeneous
environments.

*nfiniBand is available only in the IS5500-SGI tuned version.
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For configurations greater than 192 slots premium feature key(s) will be required.

Superior serviceability
and easy installation

It is application-ready for the Oracle Database, VMWare,
and Microsoft enterprise software including: SQL Server,
Exchange and SharePoint. The line offers heterogeneous
support with the flexibility to tightly integrate with SGI compute
environments, to operate as standalone storage, as well
as integrating with other non-SGI compute environments.
This versatility extends to the platform itself: The IS5500
comes with following interface options: eight or sixteen
8Gb/s FC; eight 8Gb/s FC and eight 6Gb/s SAS; four
10Gb/s iSCSI and eight 8Gb/s FC or 40Gb/s Infiniband
(IB)* and three drive enclosure options supporting up to
384† high performance and nearline SAS drives, selfencrypting drives (SEDs), and solid state disk (SSDs).
All of the drive types and enclosures can be intermixed
in a single system.

Uptime All The Time
The IS5500 Storage system ensures not only high-speed
data access, but continuous access to the data as well.
With a legacy of high availability system design, the IS5500
storage system carries on this tradition with redundant
components, automated path failover, and extensive online
administration capabilities maximizing computational efficiency
and productivity ensures no single-point-of-failure exists
to keep these environments productive 24x7x365.