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New IBM Storwize V5000

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Three new Storwize V5000 models will be available from March 4th: Storwize V5030, Storwize V5020, and Storwize V5010. The new models bring many enhancements, including better performance, more cache, greater infrastructure speed, and scaling up to 4 PB of capacity when clustered.

Multiply your possibilities

The new IBM Storwize V5000 is a first class hybrid storage solution: reliable and easy to use, with simple management through an industry-leading graphical user interface, highly flexible and simple to upgrade.

Storwize V5000 Series V5030 V5020 V5010
Standard Connectivity 10 Gb iSCSI /1 Gb iSCSI 12 Gb SAS / 1 Gb iSCSI 1 Gb iSCSI
Optional Connectivity 16 Gb Fibre Channel

12 Gb SAS

10 Gb iSCSI / Fibre Channel over

Ethernet (FCoE)

1 Gb iSCSI

16 Gb Fibre Channel

12 Gb SAS

10 Gb iSCSI / FCoE

1 Gb iSCSI

16 Gb Fibre Channel

12 Gb SAS

10 Gb iSCSI / FCoE

1 Gb iSCSI

Cache (Per System) 32 or 64 GB 16 or 32 GB 16 GB
Maximum Drives 504 per system, 1,008 in a two-way cluster 264 per system 264 per system
Maximum Expansion Enclosures 10 10 10

In combination with IBM Spectrum Virtualize it gives you 2x better utilization, encryption (V5020 and above), automatic tiering that improves performance up to 3x, and compression which can give you up to 5 times more storage. Downtime is practically eliminated due to a highly available system architecture.

With flexible licensing options you can choose the optimal solution that meets your data needs. Contact us today and let us design an appropriate IT infrastructure for your business.

New IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software V7.6 Out Now!

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If your storage requirements are growing too fast, IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software can help you with that! It is designed to enhance the benefits of server virtualization by reducing complexities, improving availability, and lowering the cost of storage management.

„A flexible, responsive, available, scalable, and efficient storage environment“

The IBM Spectrum Virtualize software is compatible with various platforms: SAN Volume Controller (SVC), Storwize V7000, Storwize V5000, Storwize V3700, and FlashSystem V9000. Those products are suitable for storage virtualization and advanced storage capabilities in environments such as large enterprises to small and midsize companies.

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Spectrum Virtualize includes the following features:

  • virtualize block storage arrays to centralize storage management
  • improve utilization of storage capacity
  • avoid downtime for backups, maintenance, and upgrades
  • support data migration without disruption to applications
  • enable virtualized storage volumes to be managed as a single pool of storage
  • enable advanced functionalities to be used across multiple virtualized storage array
  • enable a high-availability storage infrastructure through Stretched Cluster or HyperSwap®
  • improve the efficiency of the virtualized block storage infrastructure with advanced technologies such as Real-time Compression™
  • move the most accessed dana automatically to higher performance tiers through EasyTier®

New functionalities in 7.6:

  • Encryption: improves data security and confidentiality. It is available for both internal capacities of SVC, Storwize V7000 and FlashSystems V9000 and externally virtualized capacities of Storwize V7000, SVC, and FlashSystems V9000
  • Distributed RAID: now available for internal capacities, enables up to 10 times faster RAID array rebuild times.
  • IP quorum base support: enables the use of a lower cost IP network-attached host as a quorum disk for simplified implementation and operation
  • HyperSwap GUI support: offers a new command-line interface which simplifies the setup process to a handful commands, and also enables configuration and management of local HyperSwap through the GUI
  • VMWare VVol integration
  • Increase maximum quantity of iSCSI hosts: increases the maximum number of iSCSI host sessions from 256 to 1024 per node
  • Integrated Comprestimator: analyzes the patterns of the actual customer data, and estimate the compressibility of data per volume
  • Improvement in the worldwide support processes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week
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