Lenovo IBM Storwize V5000 Product Manual page 6

Components Specification
Drive connectivity Dual-ported 6 Gb SAS drive attachment infrastructure.
Control enclosure with two node canisters (ports per one node canister):
Expansion enclosure with two expansion canisters (ports per one expansion canister):
Drives SFF drives:
LFF drives:
Storage capacity
Host connectivity Standard ports (per control enclosure with two node canisters):
Extra ports must be configured by selecting one of the following host port options (per control
enclosure 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, Dual-system
software features clustering, HyperSwap (requires a Remote Mirroring license)
Optional features Easy Tier, FlashCopy, Remote Mirroring, External Virtualization.
Performance
(single system)*
IBM Storwize V5000 for Lenovo
24x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (SFF chassis)
12x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (LFF chassis)
2x 6 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS SFF-8644) expansion port for the attachment of the
external enclosures
24x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (SFF chassis)
12x 6 Gb SAS internal drive ports (LFF chassis)
2x 6 Gb SAS x4 (Mini-SAS SFF-8644) expansion ports (IN and OUT) for the daisy
chained attachment of the external enclosures
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 GB 10K rpm SAS HDDs
4 TB, 6 TB, and 8 TB 7.2K rpm NL SAS HDDs
Up to 1.92 PB (240x 8 TB NL SAS HDDs) per single system
Up to 3.84 PB (480x 8 TB NL SAS HDDs) per cluster
4x 6 Gb SAS host ports (Mini-SAS HD, SFF-8644) (2 ports per node canister)
4x 1 Gb iSCSI host ports (UTP, RJ-45) (2 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 500,000 cache read IOPS
Up to 100,000 disk read IOPS
Up to 20,000 disk write IOPS
Up to 45,000 disk mixed (70% read/30% write) IOPS
Up to 5.7 GBps sequential cache read throughput
Up to 5.6 GBps sequential disk read throughput
Up to 1.8 GBps sequential disk write throughput
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