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).

Summary

• Automatic migration of frequently accessed data to high performing solid state drives (SSD)
• Integrated tools and capabilities for server and storage management
• 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

Easy

The IBM Storwize V7000 system simplifies storage management with a powerful, easy-to-use interface that can help organisations improve storage performance, efficiency, and utilisation rates while improving storage administrator productivity. The IBM Storwize V7000 system includes the following features for ease of use:

• Preinstalled software
• Simplified provisioning
• Online data migration
• Simplified remote mirroring
• Simplified application performance tuning
• Event monitoring

Fast

The IBM Storwize V7000 system helps organisations deploy solid-state storage confidently, effectively and economically. The IBM Storwize V7000 system provides the following performance features:

• Proven industry benchmarks
• Multiple storage tiers
• Performance management
• Storage virtualisation
• System Storage Easy Tier technology that provides automated storage tiering for SSD optimisation

Efficient

The IBM Storwize V7000 system integrates top IBM storage efficiency technologies into a modular design that simplifies the addition of more storage technologies. Greater efficiency translates into reduced energy costs, reduced administrative costs and less storage sprawl. The IBM Storwize V7000 system efficiency highlights include the following:

• Storage virtualisation
• Thin provisioning
• Space-efficient FlashCopy
• Cross-tier data migration, mirroring and FlashCopy
• Storage resource management
• Data deduplication

Cost-effective

The IBM Storwize V7000 system has a dynamic, modular, compact design that sets a new standard for cost-effective midrange disk systems. Instead of buying a whole cabinet and then filling it with disk enclosures over time, the IBM Storwize V7000 system uses individual, modular components providing organisations with reduced space requirements and more flexibility. Capacity and functionality can be added as needed, over time and with less disruption than with traditional midrange disk systems.

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