IBM Storwize V7000 and Storwize V7000 Unified

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Highlights

Deliver sophisticated, enterprise-class storage functionality for businesses
Support your growing business requirements while controlling costs
Provide up to 200 percent performance improvement with automatic migration to high-performing solid-state drives (SSDs)¹
Enable storing up to five times more active primary data in the same physical disk space using IBM® Real-time Compression™²
Consolidate block and file storage for simplicity, greater efficiency and ease of management
Enable near-continuous availability of applications through dynamic migration
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
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.

IT organisations may also suffer from a range of challenges:

Disruptive migrations
Difficulty deploying tiered storage
Concern about growth in storage and storage management costs
Inability to share storage among servers
Reduced productivity and increased cost caused by isolated server and storage management tools
Inability to use virtualised storage in the way they use 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 and Storwize V7000 Unified are virtualised storage systems to complement virtualised server environments that provide unmatched performance, availability, advanced functions and highly-scalable capacity never seen before in midrange disk systems. As members of the IBM Storwize family, Storwize V7000 and Storwize V7000 Unified are powerful midrange disk systems that have been designed to be easy to use and to enable rapid deployment without additional resources. Storwize V7000 supports block workloads, whereas Storwize V7000 Unified consolidates block and file workloads into a single storage system for simplicity of management and reduced cost. Storwize V7000 and Storwize V7000 Unified are virtual storage systems that offer greater efficiency and flexibility through built-in SSD optimisation and thin-provisioning technologies. Integrated IBM Real-time Compression enhances efficiency even further by enabling storing up to five times as much active primary data in the same physical disk space.2 Storwize V7000 and Storwize V7000 Unified advanced functions also enable nondisruptive migration of data from existing storage, simplifying implementation and minimising disruption to users. Finally, these systems also enable you to virtualise and reuse existing disk systems, supporting a greater potential return on investment (ROI).

Product features

Automatic migration of frequently accessed data to high performing SSDs
Provisioning support for business applications that need to grow dynamically, but only consume the storage space they are actually using
Migration capabilities that provide efficiency and business value in a nondisruptive migration
IBM Real-time Compression for extraordinary efficiency, enabling storage of up to five times as much active data in the same physical disk space^*
Unified storage capability for greater simplicity and efficiency
Policy-based file management
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
Clustered systems to support growing business needs while controlling costs

Hardware summary

2U rack-mountable chassis
Twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays (model x24) or twelve 3.5-inch drive bays (model x12)
Up to 36 TB of physical storage per enclosure using 3 TB nearline SAS disk drives, or up to 24 TB physical storage per enclosure using 1 TB nearline SAS disk drives
SAS disk drives, nearline SAS disk drives and SSDs
Redundant dual-active intelligent controllers
16 GB cache memory per control enclosure (8 GB per internal controller) as a base feature
For each control enclosure: Eight 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports (four 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports per controller), four 1 Gbps iSCSI and optionally four 10 Gbps iSCSI/Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) host ports (two 1 Gbps iSCSI and optionally two 10 Gbps iSCSI/FCoE ports per controller)
File module provides attachment to 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps network-attached storage (NAS) environments
Control enclosure supports attachment of up to nine expansion enclosures with configurations up to 360 TB physical storage capacities (up to 1.44 PB in clustered systems)
Dual power supplies and cooling components