IBM V7000 User Manual

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Chapter 6. Basic volume and host
configuration
This chapter describes the steps involved in how to use IBM Flex System V7000 Storage
Node to create a volume and map a volume to a host to access it. A volume is a logical disk
on IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node that is provisioned out of a storage pool and is
recognized by a host with an identifier UID field and a parameter list:
򐂰 The first part of this chapter describes how to create the different types of volumes on IBM
Flex System V7000 Storage Node.
򐂰 The second part of this chapter explains how to map volumes to the attached hosts.
򐂰 Finally, the last part of this chapter shows how to discover those volumes from the hosts.
򐂰 Also discussed are the scalability enhancements made in v7.1 compared to v6.4.
Migration of volumes is covered in Chapter 7, “Storage Migration Wizard” on page 283.
Advanced host and volume administration, such as creating volume copies, FlashCopies, and
so on, are described in Chapter 9, “IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node Copy Services” on
page 363.
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IBM V7000 Specifications

General

Model	IBM Storwize V7000
Storage Type	Hybrid Flash Array
Maximum Capacity	1.2PB
RAID Levels	0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Connectivity	8 Gbps Fibre Channel, 16 Gbps Fibre Channel, 1 Gbps iSCSI, 10 Gbps iSCSI
Management	Command-line interface (CLI), Graphical user interface (GUI)
Form Factor	2U
Drive Bays	12
Maximum Raw Capacity	1.2PB
Operating System Support	AIX, HP-UX, Linux, VMware, Windows
Data Reduction Features	Real-time Compression, Deduplication
Drive Types	SSD, HDD
Scalability	Scale-up (drive enclosures) and scale-out (clustering) capabilities