The document discusses IBM's PureFlex System, which combines advanced IBM storage hardware and storage management software. It integrates these resources along with expertise to provide optimized storage solutions. Key features of IBM's Storwize V7000 storage systems integrated into PureFlex include simplified administration, automated tiering for improved performance, and virtualization capabilities. The systems also support consolidation of block and file storage using Storwize V7000 Unified.
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Are your storage requirements growing too fast? Are the costs of managing this growth taking more and more of your IT budget? Would you like to make a better use of existing storage without adding more complexity to the infrastructure? IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller can help solve these problems and get you on the road...
In storage management today, breaking the cycle of increased complexity and explosive data growth can be a big challenge. The old ways of buying and managing storage have become less effective. Due to resource constraints—both physical storage resources and human resources— IT organizations must act quickly to optimize and simplify their infrastructure.
IBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center can help you manage performance, availability and capacity utilization of your multivendor storage systems. It performs device configuration and management of multiple devices from a single user interface, and helps tune and proactively manage...
VMware integration is one of the hottest topics in the storage market. The goal is to better utilize the storage, whether consolidating servers, expediting provisioning or optimizing resources. Storage continues to be the sticking point when it comes to provisioning capacity for a new virtualized application, integrating backup and recovery, or scaling capacity as well as performance. Choosing the right storage behind the virtualization infrastructure is paramount.
This paper details 9 key areas that the storage buyer needs to be aware of in order to have a performant and efficient virtualized infrastructure.
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1. IBM PureFlex System
storage resources
To meet today’s complex and ever-changing business demands, you
Highlights need a solid foundation of compute, storage, networking and software
resources that is simple to deploy and can quickly and automatically
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Integration by design: a single user inter- adapt to changing conditions. You also need to be able to take advantage
face to manage and virtualize internal
and third-party storage that can improve of broad expertise and proven best practices in systems management,
storage utilization up to 30 percent applications, hardware maintenance and more.
Built-in expertise: built-in tiering and
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advanced replication functions are The IBM PureFlex System combines advanced IBM storage hardware
designed to improve performance and and storage management software, along with patterns of expertise
availability without constant and integrate them in complete, optimized solutions.
administration
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Simplified experience: single user inter- Advanced storage features, integrated with
face simplifies storage administration to
allow your experts to focus on innovation your existing infrastructure
IBM® Storwize® V7000 storage systems integrated into the PureFlex
System are designed to be easy to use and enable rapid deployment.
Storwize V7000 systems support extraordinary performance and f lexibil-
ity through built-in solid state drive (SSD) optimization and thin
provisioning technologies. With non-disruptive migration of data from
existing storage, you also get simplified implementation, minimizing
disruption to users. And advanced storage features like automated tiering,
storage virtualization, clustering, replication and multi-protocol support
are designed to help you improve the efficiency of your storage. As part
of your PureFlex System, Storwize V7000 can become part of your
highly efficient, highly capable, next-generation information
infrastructure.
2. Virtualization consolidation can deliver the capacity and performance you
Virtualizing your storage infrastructure can optimize your need within the budget you have. Storwize V7000 Unified
expenditures, resources and capabilities. It allows you to scale supports* all the capability above and also provides the ability
system capacity and performance more easily to meet your to combine both block and file storage into a single system.
growing information infrastructure needs, reduce the complex- By consolidating storage systems, multiple management points
ity of management and reduce the risk to your business of can be eliminated and storage capacity can be shared across
system failure. You can also enhance the value of your existing both types of access, helping to improve overall storage utiliza-
storage infrastructure through advanced virtualization managed tion. Storwize V7000 Unified also presents a single, easy-to-use
by Storwize V7000. By integrating and virtualizing all of your management interface that supports both block and file, help-
storage, you get a single user interface with a management con- ing to further simplify administration.
sole that is integrated into the comprehensive management
system. Storwize V7000 Unified system details
Storwize V7000 Unified* enclosures support up to twenty-four
Combining storage and server virtualization in your PureFlex 2.5-inch drives or up to twelve 3.5-inch drives. Control
System can build a more powerful virtualized infrastructure for enclosures contain drives, redundant dual-active intelligent
your business and provide greater benefits than either virtual- controllers, and dual power supplies, batteries and cooling
ization solution deployed alone. components. Expansion enclosures contain drives, switches,
power supplies and cooling components. You can attach up to
Tiering nine expansion enclosures to a control enclosure supporting
Tiering helps optimize storage use by enabling data to be up to 240 drives. Key system characteristics are:
located in a way that can improve system performance,
reduce costs and simplify management. Using IBM System ●● ●
Internal storage capacity: up to 36 TB of physical storage
Storage® Easy Tier® technology, you can deploy solid-state per enclosure
drives (SSDs) confidently, effectively and economically. Easy ●● ●
Disk drives: SAS disk drives, near-line SAS disk drives and
Tier automatically and dynamically moves only the appropriate solid-state drives can be mixed in an enclosure to give you
data to the SSDs in the system, based on ongoing performance extraordinary flexibility
monitoring. So you get the performance benefits of SSDs at a ●● ●
Cache memory: 16 GB cache memory (8GB per controller)
fraction of the cost of an all-SSD system and without requiring as a base feature—designed to improve performance and
administrators to create and manage storage tier policies. availability
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Ports per control enclosure: Eight 8 Gbps Fibre Channel
Consolidation host ports, four 1 Gbps and optionally four 10 Gbps iSCSI
Optimizing resources through consolidation can reduce costs host ports
and improve productivity. Consolidation can also lead to more
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Ports per File Module: Two 1 Gbps and two 10 Gbps
efficient maintenance and management of your information Ethernet ports for server attachment and management, two
infrastructure. By supporting efficient, simple scaling, 8 Gbps FC ports for attachment to Storwize V7000 control
enclosures
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3. IBM has decades of experience With a broad ecosystem of partners with technical and industry
delivering essential IT expertise, and the unique ability and skill to integrate it all
IBM has taken knowledge, expertise and technology gained together for you—along with an unwavering commitment to
from decades of experience and investment in IT solutions for your success—you can rely on IBM and your IBM PureFlex
business problems and integrated it into the PureFlex System. System.
And with a commitment to open standards you can integrate
IBM solutions with other elements of your own environment
with your network of partners, customers and suppliers.
IBM Storwize V7000 at a glance
Host interface ●● ●
SAN-attached 8 Gbps Fiber Channel (FC), 1 Gbps iSCSI and optional 10 Gbps iSCSI
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NAS-attached* 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet
User interface ●● ●
Graphical user interface (GUI)
Supported drives 3.5-inch disk drives:
2 TB, 3 TB 3.5 in. 7.2k Near-Line SAS disk
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2.5-inch disk drives:
146 GB, 300 GB 2.5 in. 15k SAS disk
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300 GB, 450 GB, 600 GB, 900 GB 2.5 in.10k SAS disk
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200 GB, 300 GB, 400 GB 2.5 in. E-MLC (enterprise-grade multilevel cell) solid state drive (SSD)
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– 1 TB 2.5 in. 7.2k Near-Line SAS disk
RAID levels ●● ●
RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10
Maximum drives supported ●● ●
240 per control enclosure; 480 per clustered system
Fans and power supplies ●● ●
Fully redundant, hot swappable
Rack support
Management software ●● ●
Storwize V7000 software
Cache per controller/control ●● ●
8 GB/16 GB/32 GB
enclosure/clustered system
Advanced features included ●● ●
System Storage Easy Tier, FlashCopy, thin provisioning
with each system
Additional available advanced ●● ●
Remote mirroring, external virtualization, unified storage*, IBM FlashCopy® Manager, IBM Tivoli® Storage
features Productivity Center Select, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack®, IBM Systems
Director, IBM Active Cloud Engine™*
Warranty Hardware:
3 year limited warranty
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Customer replaceable units
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On-site service
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Next Business Day 9×5
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Service upgrades available
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Software:
Software Maintenance Agreement available
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Replication services FlashCopy, FlashCopy Manager, Metro Mirror (Synchronous), Global Mirror (Asynchronous), local and asynchronous
remote file-based replication*
ISV solutions For a list of high quality solutions with our partner Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), including access to
solution briefs and white papers, refer to the ISV Solutions Resource Library.
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