IBM Storwize all-flash storage systems
Highlights
- Meet changing business needs with virtualized, enterprise-class, flash-optimized modular storage
- Deliver excellent performance with an all-flash solution
- Easily order and quickly deploy all-flash storage with easy-to-use management tools
- Transform the economics of data storage with hardware-accelerated data compression that lowers overall flash costs
- Save space and power with a compact 2U form factor
- Extend advanced functionality to virtualized external storage
Today’s organizations need to meet ever-changing demands for storage while also improving data economics. IT staff must deliver more services faster and more efficiently, enable real-time insight and support more customer interaction. All-flash storage can meet these requirements for fast, reliable and consistent access to data, and the technology is now accessible to more businesses than ever.
IBM® Storwize® family offers the new IBM Storwize V7000F and IBM Storwize V5000F systems as all-flash, virtualized, enterprise-class storage systems designed to deliver the high performance needed to derive real-time insights from business data combined with advanced management functions. These all-flash solutions address the need to handle the massive volumes of data created by today’s demanding cloud, analytics and traditional applications.
Built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ software, the all-flash Storwize solutions provide the latest storage technologies for unlocking the business value of stored data, including virtualization, IBM Real-time Compression™, thin provisioning, snapshots, cloning, replication and high-availability configurations. They are designed to deliver outstanding performance, efficiency, ease of use and dependability for organizations of all sizes.
Specifications | |
Additional available advanced features | Remote mirroring, IBM Real-time Compression,* external virtualization |
Advanced features included with each system | Virtualization of internal storage, thin provisioning, data migrati |
Fans and power supplies | Fully redundant, hot-swappable |
Host interface | SAN-attached 8 Gbps Fibre Channel, 1 Gbps iSCSI and optional 10 Gbps iSCSI/FCoE |
Management software | IBM Spectrum Virtualize software |
Maximum drives supported | Storwize V5000F: 480 per system; 960 per clustered system Storwize V7000F: 504 per system; 1,056 per clustered system |
Supported drives | 2.5-inch flash drives 200 GB, 400 GB, 800 GB and 1.6 TB |
User interface | Graphical user interface (GUI) |