Storwize V7000 Unified are virtualized storage systems to complement virtualized server environments that provide unmatched performance, availability, advanced functions and highly-scalable capacity never seen before in midrange disk systems. V7000 Unified is 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 optimization and thin-provisioning technologies.Unified advanced functions also enable nondisruptive migration of data from existing storage, simplifying implementation and minimizing disruption to users. Finally, these systems also enable you to virtualize and reuse existing disk systems, supporting a greater potential return on investment (ROI).

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

Common 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

Graphical user interface (GUI)

3.5-inch disk drives:  2 TB, 3 TB 7.2k nearline SAS disk
2.5-inch disk drives:
146 GB, 300 GB 15k SAS disk
300 GB, 600 GB, 900 GB 10k SAS disk
200 GB, 400 GB E-MLC SSD
1 TB 7.2k nearline SAS disk

RAID 0,1,5,6, and 10

240 per control enclosure: 960 per clustered system

Rack Support

Standard 19 inch

Cache per Controller/Control Enclosure/Clustered System

8 GB/16Gb/64GB

Control and expansion enclosures
Width: 483 mm (19.0 in.)
Depth: 630 mm (24.8 in.)
Height: 87.9 mm (3.46 in.)

File Modules
Width: 443 mm (17.5 in.)
Depth: 698 mm (27.5 in.)
Height: 85 mm (3.36 in.)

12-bay enclosures:
Drive-ready (without drive modules installed): 17.7 kg (37.6 lb)
Fully configured (12 drive modules installed): 27.2 kg (59.8 lb)

24-bay enclosures:
Drive-ready (without drive modules installed): 17.7 kg (37.6 lb)
Fully configured (24 drive modules installed): 25.2 kg (55.4 lb)

File modules: Maximum configuration: 29.6 kg (65 lb)