IBM V7000 User Manual

422 IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node Introduction and Implementation Guide
Figure 9-71 No candidates are available to create a partnership
Check the zoning and the system status and make sure that the clusters can “see” each
other. Then you can create your partnership by selecting the appropriate remote storage
system (Figure 9-72), and defining the available bandwidth between both systems.
Figure 9-72 Select a remote storage system for a new partnership
In our example we have built the relationship between FlexSystem_V7000 and ITSO_SVC1
The bandwidth you need to input here is used by the background copy process between the
clusters in the partnership. To set the background copy bandwidth optimally, make sure that
you consider all three resources (the primary storage, the inter-cluster link bandwidth, and the
auxiliary storage) to avoid overloading them and affecting the foreground I/O latency.
Click Create and the partnership definition is complete on IBM Flex System V7000 Storage
Node. You can find the partnership listed in the left pane of the Partnership window, and if you
select the partnership, more information for this partnership is displayed on the right
(Figure 9-73).
Figure 9-73 Partially configured partnership

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