IBM V7000 User Manual

354 IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node Introduction and Implementation Guide
Internal drives have their tier assigned automatically by IBM Flex System V7000 Storage
Node. MDisks on external storage systems are assigned the
generic HDD tier by default.
This setting can be changed manually by the user. To assign a specific tier to an MDisk, click
Pools  MDisks by Pool and click Select Tier from the Actions drop-down menu
(Figure 8-51).
Figure 8-51 Select Tier for an MDisk
For demonstration purposes, we assign the tier Solid-State Drive to mdisk7 (Figure 8-52).
This MDisk is a LUN made of Fibre Channel hard disk drives in an external storage system.
The tier that was assigned by default is Hard Disk Drive.
Figure 8-52 Assign a tier to an MDisk

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