IBM V7000 User Manual

352 IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node Introduction and Implementation Guide
򐂰 Swap drive: The Swap Drive action can be used to replace a drive in the array with
another drive with the status of Candidate or Spare. This action is used to replace a drive
that has failed, or is expected to fail soon. For example, as indicated by an error message
in the event log. Select an MDisk containing the drive to be replaced and click RAID
Actions  Swap Drive. In the Swap Drive window (Figure 8-48), select the member drive
to be replaced and click Next.
Figure 8-48 Select a drive to swap out of the MDisk
In Figure 8-49, select an available Candidate or Spare drive to swap into the Array MDisk
and click Finish.
Figure 8-49 Select a drive to swap into the MDisk
The exchange of the drives starts and runs in the background, and the volumes on the
affected MDisk remain accessible.

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