IBM V7000 User Manual

518 IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node Introduction and Implementation Guide
7. In the following steps we will be using the Disk Management window to prepare the disk
and present it to the users and application for data storage. Right-click the disk in the left
pane and select Online (Figure 12-7).
Figure 12-7 Place a disk online
8. Right-click the disk again, click Initialize Disk (Figure 12-8), and click OK.
Figure 12-8 Initialize Disk option
9. Right-click the right pane and click OK (Figure 12-9).
Figure 12-9 Initialize continued
Windows device discovery: Usually, Windows discovers new devices, such as disks,
by itself. If you have completed all the steps and do not see any disks, click Actions 
Rescan Disk in Disk Management to discover the new volumes.

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