The world's most powerful midrange storage system with integrated file and block storage support - IBM Storwize V7000 Unified
Continuing our commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, we are proud to introduce to you IBM Storwize V7000. This innovative new offering delivers enterprise-class solutions in a compact and integrated design that's available to you at a midrange package price.
Jam-packed with cutting edge technology that includes Virtualisation, Thin Provisioning and Auto-tiering, Storwize V7000 grants you access to the ease, efficiency and speed that you have been waiting for in an IT storage solution. So you no longer need to worry about the impending information explosion.
Discover the features of Storwize V7000 Unified
Check out the latest product details of IBM Storwize V7000 Unified with consolidated file and block storage and much more innovative features.
- Thin Provisioning to increase your server optimisation
- Virtualisation to boost your efficiency
- Auto-tiering to prioritize the flow of your data
- Rapid Application Storage Solution combines two Tivoli software packages with the V7000 system for an even smarter storage solution
- View Challenges to discover answers to your daily IT riddles
- Product Details shows in depth product features and configurations
Storwize V7000 Unified Product Details
Key feature highlights
| Feature | Benefits |
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| IBM System Storage® Easy Tier® |
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| Thin Provisioning |
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| Unified storage capability |
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Everything else you need in one reliable device
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Featured Videos and Articles
IBM Storwize® V7000 complements virtualized server environments to provide unmatched performance, availability, advanced functions, and highly scalable capacity that has never been seen before in midrange disk systems.
Watch the videos below to find out how you can utilize this smarter storage system.
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Storwize V7000 GUI Animation
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IBM Storwize V7000 Volume Management demo
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Five Essential Storage Technologies
As many companies require as much as 40% more storage capacity per year while IT budgets remain unchanged, there are five essential storage technologies they need.
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Storwize V7000 Official Announcement on October 7, 2010 at New York
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IBM Storwize V7000 Whiteboard
See how IBM continues to make storage infrastructure more efficient and Administrators more productive.
Read the documents below to learn more about Storwize V7000
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A New Trend in High Efficiency Storage (Chinese)
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IBM Worldwide Press Release
Storwize V7000 Announcement
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Storwize solutions for your storage challenges
It's the answer to all your problems
As an IT professional, every day you're faced with complex IT riddles. Below you can find out how Storwize V7000 will help you solve all your IT riddles with its innovative storage features.
Daily IT Riddle 1 - Resource misalignment
- Storwize Solution : Easy Tier automatic data relocation
Easy Tier can increase your data transaction performance by as much as 300% when dealing with just 10% of your data.
Daily IT Riddle 3 - Complex heterogeneous storage features and interoperability
- Storwize Solution : External Storage Virtualisation
With the help of Virtualisation software, companies will be able to monitor and manage multiple servers of different brands while allocating resources from just ONE system.
Click here to learn more about External Storage Virtualisation (87KB)
Daily IT Riddle 5 - Unused and wasted disk space
- Storwize Solution : Thin Provisioning
Thin Provisioning expands the digital storage capacity available to you while increasing the efficiency of your current usage.
Daily IT Riddle 2 - Disruptive storage upgrade/replacement
- Storwize Solution : Online Data Migration
Online Data Migration allows you to break your dependence on a single storage supplier, a highly sought-after feature of any virtualisation product.
Daily IT Riddle 4 - Inability to reuse existing storage investments
- Storwize Solution : Internal Storage Virtualisation
Virtualisation also allows you to pool multiple storage devices from across physically separate disk systems which helps you build a flexible and reliable infrastructure.
Click here to learn more about Internal Storage Virtualisation (174KB)
Daily IT Riddle 6 - Costly and timely downtime and data loss
- Storwize Solution : Rapid Application Storage
Solution (RAS)IBM's Rapid Application Storage Solution combines Tivoli Productivity Centre (TPC), Tivoli Flash Copy Manager (FCM) and Storwize V7000 for an even smarter storage solution.
Click here to learn more about Rapid Application Storage (465KB)
Support
See the below documents and articles to support the implementation of Storwize V7000 into your system.
- IBM Storwize V7000 Redbook
Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 - Storwize V7000 Data Sheet
IBM Storwize V7000 features and how they benefit you (234KB) - IBM Storwize V7000 Information Center
Details on technical support information for Storwize V7000 - IBM Storwize V7000 Supported Hardware List, Device Driver, Firmware and Recommended Software Levels
A list of 3rd party storage models that are supported by Storwize V7000's interoperability feature.
IBM Storwize V7000 Rapid Application Storage
For an even smarter integrated storage efficiency solution, we've now developed Storwize Rapid Application Storage (RAS). This package combines all the strengths of the powerful V7000 with two great Tivoli software solutions – Storage FlashCopy Manager and Storage Productivity Center – to give you one truly amazing system.
| Solution items | Benefits |
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| Tivoli FlashCopy Manager | Minimize or eliminate application downtime for near instantaneous backup and restore of critical data |
| Tivoli Storage Productivity | Performance monitoring, measurement, analysis and reporting |
| IBM Storwize V7000 | Improve storage efficiency with breakthrough ease of use and advanced efficiency technologies like Easy Tier, and storage virtualisation |
| 3 year maintenance on hardware and software | Consistent 3 year, 24x7 support for the entire solution – HW & SW |
| Storage Implementation Services | IBM GTS team or business partner will deliver a faster deployment while minimizing the impact on your applications and administration staff |
What does the IBM Storwize RAS solution offer?
- Improve storage utilisation
Up to 30% with thin provisioning & virtualisation
- Increase application availability
Rapid data restore from hours to minutes
Non-disruptive Online data migration
Data protection with hourly snapshot
Easy integration with existing applications: SAP, Microsoft Exchange, IBM DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server
- Reduce solution implementation time
IBM & Business Partner professional services
- Increase application performance
With up to 60% better response time with Easy Tier
- Improve storage administrator productivity
With easy to use GUI & Virtualisation, and real-time performance monitoring
- Improve data protection
Up to 95% with hourly snapshots
Auto-tiering automates and prioritizes data movement
Auto-tiering automates the placement of data amongst different storage tiers, for internal and external storage, to intelligently align with workload requirements and optimize SSD drives utilisation. It can automatically and non-disruptively relocate data (at the extent level) from one tier to the other, in either direction, to achieve the best available storage performance for each workload. As a result, Auto-tiering can scale storage performance, reduce operating expenses and simplify information management.
Download the solution pack to find out more about Easy Tier and how data moves between SSDs and HDDs.
Thin Provisioning optimizes available space
Thin Provisioning is exceptionally useful for business applications that need to grow dynamically. It saves space by consuming a real capacity while provision a contingency capacity that can be expanded automatically for future use. The auto expansion also allows a configurable warning capacity to be set, so that once the level of free remaining capacity is reached, a warning is logged. As a result, Thin Provisioning expands storage capacity available whilst increasing the efficiency of the storage usage.
Download the solution pack to find out more information about thin provisioning.
Virtualisation improves storage efficiency
A key feature of IBM Storwize V7000 is its ability to consolidate disk controllers from various vendors (storage brands) into pools of storage. It helps organisations better manage storage for applications uses, and allows utilisation of a common set of advanced functions across all storage systems. All these are managed in a single user interface within Storwize. As a result, existing storage systems can be easily migrate into the IBM Storwize V7000 managed environment to simplify and centralize system managements.
Download the solution pack to find out more information about external storage virtualisation.
IBM Storwize V7000 Rapid Application Storage
For an even smarter integrated storage efficiency solution, we've now developed Storwize Rapid Application Storage (RAS). This package combines all the strengths of the powerful V7000 with two great Tivoli software solutions – Storage FlashCopy Manager and Storage Productivity Center – to give you one truly amazing system.
| Solution items | Benefits |
|---|---|
| Tivoli FlashCopy Manager | Minimize or eliminate application downtime for near instantaneous backup and restore of critical data |
| Tivoli Storage Productivity | Performance monitoring, measurement, analysis and reporting |
| IBM Storwize V7000 | Improve storage efficiency with breakthrough ease of use and advanced efficiency technologies like Easy Tier, and storage virtualisation |
| 3 year maintenance on hardware and software | Consistent 3 year, 24x7 support for the entire solution – HW & SW |
| Storage Implementation Services | IBM GTS team or business partner will deliver a faster deployment while minimizing the impact on your applications and administration staff |
What does the IBM Storwize RAS solution offer?
- Improve storage utilisation
Up to 30% with thin provisioning & virtualisation
- Increase application availability
Rapid data restore from hours to minutes
Non-disruptive Online data migration
Data protection with hourly snapshot
Easy integration with existing applications: SAP, Microsoft Exchange, IBM DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server
- Reduce solution implementation time
IBM & Business Partner professional services
- Increase application performance
With up to 60% better response time with Easy Tier
- Improve storage administrator productivity
With easy to use GUI & Virtualisation, and real-time performance monitoring
- Improve data protection
Up to 95% with hourly snapshots
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