IBM V7000 User Manual

256 IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node Introduction and Implementation Guide
6.1 Storage provisioning from IBM Flex System V7000 Storage
Node
This section follows the setup process and shows how to create volumes and make them
accessible from the host. The following steps are required to complete the basic setup of your
environment:
򐂰 Create new volumes: starting at section 6.1.1, “Creating a generic volume” on page 258
򐂰 Create a new host: starting at section 6.2, “Creating a new host” on page 273
򐂰 Map volumes to the host: at section 6.3, “Mapping a volume to the host” on page 279
Discovery of the volumes from the host and multipath settings are discovered in Chapter 12,
“Host configuration” on page 511.
Open the Volumes window of the IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node GUI (Figure 6-1)
to start the process of creating new volumes.
Figure 6-1 Home window with Volumes highlighted

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