IBM Storwize V7000 Midrange Disk System

Highlights

• Delivers sophisticated enterprise-class storage function for businesses of all sizes
• Supports your growing business requirements while controlling costs
• Provides up to 200 percent performance improvement with automatic migration to high performing solid state drives (SSDs)¹
• Consolidates block and file storage in a single system for simplicity and greater efficiency
• Enables near continuous availability of applications through dynamic migration
• Supports faster and more efficient data copies for online backup, testing or data mining
• Offers flexible server and storage management with easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) for block and file storage management.
• Easy to use data management designed with a GUI 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
• Redundant array of independent disk (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 mid-size organisations may also suffer from a range of challenges including disruptive migrations, difficulty deploying tiered storage, inability to share storage among servers, reduced productivity/increased cost caused by isolated server and storage management tools and inability to use virtualised storage 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 Unified is a virtualised storage system to complement virtualised server environments that provides extreme performance, availability, advanced functions and highly scalable capacity never seen before in midrange disk systems. Storwize V7000 Unified is a powerful midrange disk system that has been designed to be easy to use and enable rapid deployment without additional resources. Storwize V7000 Unified consolidates block and file workloads into a single storage system for simplicity of management and reduced cost. Storwize V7000 systems are also available for block-only workloads. Storwize V7000 Unified is virtual storage that offers greater efficiency and flexibility through built-in SSD optimisation and thin provisioning technologies. Storwize V7000 Unified advanced functions also enable non-disruptive migration of data from existing storage, simplifying implementation and minimising disruption to users. Storwize V7000 Unified also enables you to virtualise and reuse existing disk systems, supporting a greater potential return on investment (ROI).