Lenovo IBM Storwize V3700 Product Manual page 7

Component Specification
Drive connectivity Dual-ported 6 Gb SAS drive attachment infrastructure.
Controller unit with two node canisters (ports per one node canister):
Expansion unit with two expansion canisters (ports per one expansion canister):
Drives SFF drives:
LFF drives:
Storage capacity Up to 960 TB (120x 8 TB NL SAS HDDs)
Host connectivity Standard ports (per controller unit with two node canisters):
Optional additional ports on host interface cards (per controller unit with two node canisters):
Host operating Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2; Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6,
systems and 7; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10, 11, and 12; VMware vSphere 5.0, 5.1, 5.5,
and 6.0.
Standard Virtualization of internal storage, Thin Provisioning, One-way Data Migration, FlashCopy
software features snapshots (up to 64 targets).
Optional features Turbo Performance, Easy Tier, Remote Mirroring, FlashCopy snapshots (up to 2,040 targets).
Performance
(non-Turbo /
Turbo)*
IBM Storwize V3700 for Lenovo
24x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (SFF enclosure)
12x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (LFF enclosure)
1x 6 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) expansion port for the attachment of the
expansion units
24x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (SFF enclosure)
12x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (LFF enclosure)
2x 6 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS HD SFF-8644) expansion ports for the daisy chained
attachment of the expansion units
200 GB, 400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB, and 3.2 TB SAS SSDs
300 GB and 600 GB 15K rpm SAS HDDs
600 GB, 900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm SAS HDDs
2 TB 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs
300 GB and 600 GB 15K rpm SAS HDDs
900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm SAS HDDs
4 TB, 6 TB, and 8 TB 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs
6x 6 Gb SAS host ports (Mini-SAS HD, SFF-8644) (3 ports per node canister)
4x 1 Gb iSCSI host ports (UTP, RJ-45) (2 ports per node canister)
8x 6 Gb SAS host ports (Mini-SAS HD, SFF-8644) (4 ports per node canister)
8x 1 Gb iSCSI host ports (UTP, RJ-45) (4 ports per node canister)
4x 10 Gb iSCSI or FCoE SFP+ host ports (SW fiber optics, LC) (2 ports per node
canister)
8x 8 Gb FC SFP host ports (SW or LW fiber optics, LC) (4 ports per node canister)
Up to 200,000 / 295,000 cache read IOPS
Up to 45,000 / 67,000 disk read IOPS
Up to 12,300 / 14,000 disk write IOPS
Up to 23,000 / 33,000 disk mixed (70% read/30% write) IOPS
Up to 3.3 / 5.95 GBps sequential cache read throughput
Up to 2.5 / 4.1 GBps sequential disk read throughput
Up to 0.81 / 1.4 GBps sequential disk write throughput
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