IBM V7000 User Manual

Chapter 8. Storage pools 343
In Figure 8-34, we show an example of how to import an unmanaged MDisk. Select the
unmanaged MDisk and click Import from the Actions drop-down menu or right-click the
MDisk and select Import.
Figure 8-34 Import MDisk
As shown in Figure 8-35, the import wizard is activated and guides you through the import
process.
Figure 8-35 Import Wizard - step 1 of 2
In Step 1 of the Import Wizard, you must decide whether the volume is imported as a generic
volume (the default) or as thin-provisioned. Caching for the volume can be disabled; it is
enabled by default.
򐂰 Select Use thin-provisioning only if the volume to be imported originally was a
thin-provisioned volume that was exported to an image-mode volume.
򐂰 Clear Enable Caching if you use copy services on the external storage system hosting
the LUN. It is a best practice to use the copy services of IBM Flex System V7000 Storage
Node for volumes virtualized. You can find more information about virtualizing external
storage in Chapter 7, “Storage Migration Wizard” on page 283.

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