Appliance comparison: M2003 and M2002
The following table provides the technical details of the IBM® MQ Appliance hardware configuration.
You can use these details to help in performance planning and sizing activities. Do not, however,
assume 'like for like' mappings for other installations of IBM MQ, for example, installations on UNIX platforms. For
detailed planning, the best source of information when assessing expected performance (message
throughput) are the following performance reports:
For more information on hardware specification, see Introducing the IBM MQ Appliance M2003.
| M2003 (current model) | M2002 (previous model) |
|---|---|
| 2 x 16-core Intel Xeon Gold 6326 processors (8 cores active in B model), 2.90 GHz, Hyperthreading enabled. | 2 x 12 core "Skylake" Intel Xeon Gold 6126T processors (6 cores active in B model). 2.60 GHz, Hyperthreading enabled. |
| 256 GB RAM, Sixteen 3200 MHz DDR4 DIMMs | 192 GB RAM, Twelve 2666 MHz DDR4 DIMMs |
| 2 x Management 1 Gb Ethernet ports (one supporting IPMI) | 2 x Management 1 Gb Ethernet ports (one supporting IPMI) |
| 8 x 1 Gb Ethernet ports | 8 x 1 Gb Ethernet ports |
| 4 x 10 Gb Ethernet ports | 6 x 10 Gb Ethernet ports |
| 4 x 40 Gb Ethernet ports | 4 x 40 Gb Ethernet ports |
| 2 x 100 Gb Ethernet ports | - |
| 4 x 3.2 TB NVMe SSDs under hardware controlled mirrored RAID (6 TB effective, 3 TB effective B model) | 4 x 3.2 TB SAS SSDs under hardware controlled mirrored RAID (6 TB effective, 3 TB effective B model) |