IBM V7000 User Manual

Chapter 6. Basic volume and host configuration 259
2. Select the managed disk pool where you want the volume to reside by clicking it. In the
figure below we choose to create two new volumes of the same size in the same pool and
is conveniently done in one step. If you want to create volumes with different size capacity,
you can do so by creating one volume at a time. The result is shown in Figure 6-4.
Figure 6-4 Create a generic volume
3. Enter a volume name and a size, and click Create. The new Generic volume is created
and the CLI commands that IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node uses are displayed
(Figure 6-5).
Figure 6-5 Volume created
4. After the task is completed, click Close.

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