IBM V7000 User Manual

Chapter 8. Storage pools 319
򐂰 The internal drives in IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node can be assigned to several
usage roles, which either can be unused, candidate, spare, or failed:
– Unused: The drive is not member of an MDisk (array).
– Candidate: The drive is available for use in an array.
– Spare: The drive can be used as a hot spare if required.
– Failed: The drive was either intentionally taken offline or failed due to an error.
Click Mark as... in the Actions drop-down menu, and select the role you want the drive to
be assigned to (Figure 8-7).
Figure 8-7 Change a drive’s usage
򐂰 Use the Identify action (in Figure 8-7) to turn on the LED light so you can physically
identify a drive that needs to be replaced, or that you want to troubleshoot.
Internal drives: Choosing the option to take internal drives offline could lead to
potential data loss.

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