Storwize V7000 Midrange Disk System

Highlights

• IBM Storwize V7000 delivers sophisticated enterprise-class storage function that is easy to use for midsized businesses
• Integrated IBM System Storage Easy Tier function provides up to 200 percent performance improvement with automatic migration to high-performing solid state drives (SSD)
• Thin provisioning allows you to purchase only the disk capacity you need
• Dynamic migration provides continuous availability of applications while migrating critical data
• IBM FlashCopy replication supports faster and more efficient data copies for online backup, testing or data mining
• IBM Systems Director provides flexible server and storage management capabilities

• Easy-to-use data management designed with a graphical user interface and point-and-click system management capabilities
• Metro Mirror and Global Mirror for replicating data synchronously or asynchronously between systems for backup efficiency
• Solid state drive (SSD) for applications that demand high speed and quick access to data
• RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10

In storage management today, breaking the cycle of increased complexity and explosive data growth can be a big challenge. The old ways of buying and managing storage have become less effective. Due to resource constraints both physical storage resources and human resources IT organisations must act quickly to optimise and simplify their infrastructure. Unchecked complexity and growth will only become bigger problems over time.

Small and midsize organisations also may suffer from a range of challenges:

• Disruptive migrations
• Difficulty deploying tiered storage
• Inability to share storage among servers
• Reduced productivity and increased cost caused by isolated server and storage management tools
• Inability to use virtualised storage, like virtual servers, as a tool for optimising expenditures, resources and capabilities

To stand up to these challenges and allow businesses to respond to a rapidly changing marketplace, IBM Storwize V7000 is a virtualised storage system to complement virtualised server environments that provides unmatched performance, availability, advanced functions, and highly scalable capacity never seen before in midrange disk systems. IBM Storwize V7000 is a powerful midrange disk system that has been designed to be easy to use and enable rapid deployment without additional resources. Storwize V7000 is virtual storage that offers greater efficiency and flexibility through built-in SSD optimisation and thin provisioning technologies. Storwize V7000 advanced functions also enable non-disruptive migration of data from existing storage, simplifying implementation and minimising disruption to users. IBM Storwize V7000 also enables you to virtualise and reuse existing disk systems, supporting a greater potential return on investment (ROI).

IBM V7000 Product features

• Automatic migration of frequently accessed data to high performing solid state drives (SSD)
• Provisioning support for business applications that need to grow dynamically but consume only the storage space they are actually using
• Migration capabilities that provide efficiency and business value in a non-disruptive migration
• Support for near instant data copies for backup or application testing
• Integrated instant copy capabilities for critical business needs
• Integrated tools and capabilities for server and storage management

IBM V7000 Hardware summary

• 2U rack-mountable chasses
• Twenty four 2.5" drive bays (Model 124) or twelve 3.5" drive bays (Model 112)
• Up to 24 TB of physical storage per enclosure using 2 TB near-line SAS disk drive modules on the 2076-112 model, or up to 14 TB physical storage per enclosure using 600 GB SAS disk drive modules
• SAS disk drives, near-line SAS disk drives and SSDs
• Redundant dual-active intelligent RAID controllers
• 16 GB cache memory (8 GB per internal RAID controller) as a base feature
• Eight 8 Gbps FC host ports (four 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports per RAID controller) and four 1 Gbps iSCSI host ports (two 1 Gbps iSCSI host ports per RAID controller), with an RJ-45 connector for each port
• RAID controller supports attachment of up to nine storage expansion units with configurations up to 240 TB physical storage capacities
• Dual power supplies and cooling components