Ibm Storwize V5000 Gen1 And Gen2 Compatibility - IBM Storwize V5010 Manual

For example, on a Storwize V7000 utility model with twenty-four 7.68 TB flash drives in the
controller, a 2076-24F with twenty-four 7.68 TB drives may be configured with the initial
system. Expansion drawers do not apply to FlashSystem 900 (9843-UF3). Storwize V5030
and Storwize V7000 utility model systems support up to 760 drives in the system.
The usage data collected by Storage Insights is used by IBM to determine the actual physical
data provisioned in the system. This data is compared to the base system capacity
subscription, and any provisioned capacity beyond that base subscription is billed per
terabyte, per month, on a quarterly basis. The calculated usage is based on the average use
over a given month.
In a highly variable environment, such as managed or cloud service providers, this enables
the system to be utilized only as much as is necessary during any given month. Usage can
increase or decrease, and is billed accordingly. Provisioned capacity is considered capacity
that is reserved by the system. In thick-provisioned environments (available on FlashSystem
900 and Storwize), this is the capacity that is allocated to a host whether it has data written.
For thin-provisioned environments (available on the Storwize system), this is the data that is
actually written and used. This is because of the different ways in which thick and thin
provisioning utilize disk space.
These systems are available worldwide, but there are specific client and program differences
by location. Consult with your IBM Business Partner or sales person for specifics.

1.4 IBM Storwize V5000 Gen1 and Gen2 compatibility

The Storwize V5030 systems can be added into existing Storwize V5000 Gen1 clustered
systems. All systems within a cluster must use the same version of Storwize V5000 software,
which is version 7.6.1 or later.
Restriction: The Storwize V5010 and Storwize V5020 are not compatible with V5000
Gen1 systems because they are not able to join an existing I/O group.
A single Storwize V5030 control enclosure can be added to a single Storwize V5000 cluster
to bring the total number of I/O groups to two. They can be clustered by using either Fibre
Channel (FC) or Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The possible I/O group configuration
options for all Storwize V5000 models are shown in Table 1-8.
Table 1-8 IBM Storwize V5000 I/O group configurations
I/O group 0
V5010
V5020
V5030
V5030
V5030
V5000 Gen 1
V5000 Gen1
V5000 Gen1
I/O group 1
N/A
N/A
N/A
V5030
V5000 Gen1
V5030
N/A
V5000 Gen1
Chapter 1. Overview of the IBM Storwize V5000 Gen2 system
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