IBM Storwize® V5000 is a highly flexible, easy to use, virtualized storage system that enables midsized organizations to meet the challenges of rapid data growth and limited IT budgets. As an intermediate Storwize family offering, Storwize V5000 enables organizations to consolidate and provide new capabilities to their existing infrastructures. With flexible licensing options, Storwize V5000 makes it easy to deploy complementary solutions, such as IBM ProtecTIER®.

Overview

Highlights

  • Higher flexibility: Easily customize your storage system with flexible software options
  • New Generation GUI: Simplifies management with industry-leading graphical user interface
  • Easy Tier: Helps to increase performance up to three times using only five percent flash storage with optional IBM® Easy Tier® technology1
  • External virtualization: Consolidates and provides IBM Storwize® V5000 capabilities to existing storage infrastructures
  • Replication over IP: Improves network utilization for remote mirroring with innovative replication technology
  • Clustered systems: Ability for block systems to both scale up and out for performance and capacity

Organizations of all sizes are faced with a tidal wave of data coming from myriad new sources, including sensors, social media, mobile platforms and more. And while the sheer volume of this new data may seem overwhelming, the value of information is stronger than ever—some even consider it the new currency of business. To help maximize the benefits of growing amounts of data, businesses are turning to software-defined environments, which can provide flexibility and responsiveness to business demands—along with higher scalability and greater efficiency.

The IBM Storwize family is the primary IBM storage solution for supporting software-defined environments and virtual infrastructures. Storwize V5000, the latest addition to the family, is a virtualized, flexible, easy-to-use solution that enables midsized organizations with complex storage and scalability needs to overcome storage challenges. As an intermediate offering, Storwize V5000 is designed to help consolidate and provide new capabilities to existing storage infrastructures. And because of its flexible licensing options, Storwize V5000 is simple to deploy with complementary storage solutions, such as IBM ProtecTIER®.

Product features

  • Graphical user interface (GUI)
  • Dual clustering
  • IBM Easy Tier
  • Storage virtualization
  • Thin provisioning
  • Metro Mirror and Global Mirror
  • IBM FlashCopy®
  • Dynamic migration

Software summary

  • Web-based GUI provides point-and-click management capabilities to enhance IT productivity
  • Enables scaling both up and out to accommodate performance and capacity requirements
  • Provides automatic migration of frequently accessed data elements to high-performing flash storage
  • Enables existing IBM and non-IBM storage to integrate with Storwize V5000 systems, where it inherits Storwize advantages and capabilities
  • Supports business applications that need to grow dynamically, while consuming only the space actually used
  • Allows synchronous or asynchronous data replication between any Storwize family offerings for maximum flexibility and backup efficiency
  • Storwize family remote mirroring supports Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and IP (Ethernet) networking between sites
  • Creates a near-instant copy of active data that can be used for backup or for parallel processing activities; supports recovery of corrupted data
  • Provides nondisruptive migration to speed implementation and minimize disruption

 

Specification

 

Host interface 1 Gb iSCSI, 6 Gb SAS, and 8 Gb Fibre Channel or 10 Gb iSCSI/FCoE
User interface Gaphical user interface (GUI)
Single or dual controller Dual
Maximum cache 32 GB (with two-way clustered systems)
Drive type Dual-port, hot-swappable, 6 Gb SAS disk drives
Drives supported
  • 2.5-inch 6 Gb SAS disk drives:
    • 146 GB and 300 GB @ 15,000 rpm
    • 600 GB, 900 GB, and 1.2 TB @ 10,000 rpm
    • 1 TB @ 7,200 rpm
  • 3.5-inch 6 Gb SAS disk drives:
    • 300 GB @ 15,000 rpm (disk drive is 2.5 inch form factor)
    • 900 GB and 1.2 TB @ 10,000 rpm (disk drives are 2.5 inch form factor)
    • 2 TB, 3 TB, and 4TB @ 7,200 rpm
  • SSDs 2.5-inch 6 Gb SAS drives:
    • 200 GB, 400 GB, and 800 GB
Maximum drives supported Up to six Storwize V5000 expansion enclosures (maximum of 168 drives per system and 336 drives in two-way clustered systems):
  • Small form factor enclosure: 24 x 2.5-inch drives
  • Large form factor enclosure: 12 x 3.5-inch drives
RAID levels RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 and 10
Fans and power supplies Fully redundant, hot-swappable
Rack support Standard 19-inch rack-mount† enclosure with AC power
Management software IBM Storwize family software for Storwize V5000
Advanced functions included with system
  • Embedded GUI
  • Dual-system clustering
  • Virtualization of internal storage
  • Thin provisioning
  • One-way data migration
  • Interoperability with most major server platforms and operating systems
Optional advanced functions
  • Easy Tier
  • External virtualization
  • FlashCopy
  • Remote mirroring
Warranty Hardware:
  • Flexible warranty
  • Post-warranty support available
  • Customer setup (initial installation and field upgrades)
Software:
  • Initial license purchase
  • Software maintenance agreement available
Size‡
  • 8.7 cm (3.4 in.) H x 48.3 cm (19.0 in.) W x 55.6 cm (21.9 in.) D
  • Approximate weight:
Operating environment
  • Air temperature:
  • Relative humidity:
  • Electrical power:
Heat dissipation (BTU/hr.)
  • Large form factor control enclosure: 1,290
  • Large form factor expansion enclosure: 1,024
  • Small form factor control enclosure: 1,451
  • Small form factor expansion enclosure: 1,154
Supported systems For a list of currently supported servers, operating systems, host bus adapters, clustering applications, and SAN switches and directors, refer to the IBM System Storage Interoperation Center at: ibm.com/systems/support/storage/config/ssic
ISV solutions For a list of high-quality solutions with our partner ISVs, including access to solution briefs and white papers, refer to the ISV Solutions Resource Library

* 2.5-inch drive in a 3.5-inch drive carrier

† To assure installation and serviceability in non-IBM industry-standard racks, review the Storwize V5000 publications for any product-specific installation requirements

‡ To assure installation and serviceability in non-IBM industry-standard racks, review the installation planning information for any product-specific installation requirements

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