Key Features - Lenovo IBM Storwize V5000 Product Manual

Key features

The Storwize V5000 storage system provides the following features:
Scalable enterprise storage with a dual active/active intelligent array node canisters with 8 GB
cache each for high availability and performance.
Flexible host connectivity to match diverse client needs with support for a mix of 6 Gb SAS, 1 Gb
iSCSI, and 10 Gb iSCSI or FCoE or 8 Gb FC connectivity at the same time.
A 6 Gb SAS drive-side connectivity with support for 12x 3.5-inch LFF or 24x 2.5-inch SFF drives in
the control enclosure, which are scalable up to 240 LFF drives per system with the attachment of
Storwize V5000 LFF Expansion Enclosure (12x LFF drives each) or up to 480 SFF drives per system
with the attachment of Storwize V5000 SFF Expansion Enclosure (24x SFF drives each) to satisfy
growing needs for storage capacity and performance.
With two-way system clustering, the size of the system can be doubled to a maximum of 960 drives.
Further scalability can be achieved with virtualization of external storage. When Storwize V5000
virtualizes an external disk system, capacity in the external system inherits the functional richness
and ease of use of Storwize V5000.
Flexibility in storing data on high-performance SAS SSDs, performance-optimized enterprise SAS
hard disk drives (HDDs), or capacity-optimized enterprise NL SAS HDDs; mixing and matching drive
types and form factors within a single system to perfectly meet performance and capacity
requirements for various workloads.
Storwize V5000 combines various IBM technologies, including thin provisioning, automated tiering,
external and internal storage virtualization, clustering, replication and multiprotocol support.
VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVol) integration brings advanced storage management functions
to the virtual machine level for finer VM storage service level control and policy-driven automation.
Note: VVol integration feature requires IBM Spectrum Control Base Edition for Lenovo that can be
downloaded from http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral.
Intuitive, web-based next-generation GUI for easy system set up and management.
Extensive interoperability with support for most major server platforms and operating systems.
The Storwize V5000 LFF enclosure is shown in the following figure.
Figure 2. Storwize V5000 LFF enclosure
The Storwize V5000 supports the complete range of data storage requirements, from highly used
applications to high-capacity, low usage applications.
The following 2.5-inch drives are supported:
High-performance SSDs: 200 GB, 400 GB, 800 GB, 1.6 TB, and 3.2 TB SAS
Performance-optimized, enterprise class disk drives:
300 GB and 600 GB 15K rpm SAS
600 GB, 900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm SAS
High-capacity, archival-class nearline disk drives: 2 TB 7.2K rpm NL SAS
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