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 organizations must act quickly to optimize and simplify their infrastructure. Unchecked complexity and growth will only become bigger problems over time.
Small and midsize organizations may also 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 virtualized storage, like virtual servers, as a tool for optimizing 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 virtualized storage system to complement virtualized server environments that provides unmatched performance, availability, advanced functions, and highly scalable capacity never seen before in midrange disk systems. 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 solid state drive (SSD) optimization and thin provisioning technologies. Storwize V7000 advanced functions also enable non-disruptive migration of data from existing storage, simplifying implementation and minimizing disruption to users. Storwize V7000 also enables you to virtualize and reuse existing disk systems, supporting a greater potential return on investment (ROI).
Product features
- Automatic migration of frequently accessed data to high performing solid state drives 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 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
- Clustered systems support growing business needs while controlling costs
Hardware summary
- 2U rack-mountable chasses
- Twenty four 2.5″ drive bays (model x24) or twelve 3.5″ drive bays (model x12)
- Up to 24 TB of physical storage per enclosure using 2 TB near-line SAS disk drive modules 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 per control enclosure (8 GB per internal RAID controller) as a base feature
- For each control enclosure: Eight 8 Gbps Fibre Channel host ports (four 8 Gbps FC ports per RAID controller), four 1 Gbps and optionally four 10 Gbps iSCSI host ports (two 1 Gbps and optionally two 10 Gbps iSCSI host ports per RAID controller)
- RAID controller supports attachment of up to nine storage expansion units with configurations up to 240 TB physical storage capacities (480 TB in clustered systems)
- Dual power supplies and cooling components
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