IBM V7000 User Manual

324 IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node Introduction and Implementation Guide
As shown in Figure 8-12, when you click Use the recommended configuration, the wizard
offers a recommended storage configuration at the bottom of the window.
Figure 8-12 Recommended configuration
The following RAID presets are recommended for different drive classes:
򐂰 SSD Easy Tier preset for solid-state drives
򐂰 Basic RAID 5 for SAS drives
򐂰 Basic RAID 6 for Nearline SAS drives
Using the recommended configuration, spare drives are also automatically created to meet
the spare goals according to the preset chosen; one spare drive is created out of every 24
disk drives of the same drive class on a single chain.

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