The members of the IBM Storwize family, IBM Storwize V7000 and Storwize V7000 Unified are virtualized software defined storage systems designed to consolidate workloads into a single storage system for simplicity of management, reduced cost, highly scalable capacity, performance and high availability.
Cache per Controller: 8 GB/16 GB/64 GB
Controller Configuration: Dual (active/active)
Disk Drives Supported in Controller (Type, Size, Speed)
3.5-inch disk drives:
2 TB, 3 TB, 4 TB 7.2k nearline SAS disk
2.5-inch disk drives:
146 GB, 300 GB 15k SAS disk
300 GB, 600 GB, 900 GB, 1.2 TB 10k SAS disk
200 GB, 400 GB, 800 GB E-MLC SSD
1 TB 7.2k nearline SAS disk
Drive Type: n/a
Host Interface
SAN-attached 8 Gbps Fibre Channel, 1 Gbps iSCSI and optional 10 Gbps iSCSI/FCoE
NAS-attached 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet
Maximum Drives Supported: 240 per control enclosure; 960 per clustered system
Raid Levels: RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10
User Interface: Graphical user interface (GUI)
