Abstract
In storage management today, breaking the cycle of increased complexity and explosive data growth can be a big challenge. Due to resource constraints, both physical storage resources and human resources in IT organizations must act quickly to optimize and simplify their infrastructure. Unchecked complexity and growth will only become bigger problems over time. To stand up to these challenges and allow businesses to respond to a rapidly changing marketplace, IBM® Storwize® V7000 Unified and IBM Storwize V7000 are virtualized storage systems that complement virtualized server environments by providing unmatched performance, availability, advanced functions, and highly scalable capacity never seen before in midrange disk systems.
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The IBM® Storwize® V7000 Unified Disk System is the most powerful and easy-to-use innovative disk system in the storage marketplace. The powerful storage system combines hardware and software components to provide a single point of control to help support improved storage efficiency. By enabling virtualization, consolidation, and tiering in your organization, the IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Disk System helps to improve application availability and resource utilization. The system offers easy-to-use, efficient, and cost-effective management capabilities for new and existing storage resources in your IT infrastructure.
Storwize V7000 Unified is virtual storage that offers greater efficiency and flexibility through built-in solid-state drive (SSD) optimization and thin provisioning technologies. The advanced functions of the Storwize V7000 Unified system also enable rapid deployment without additional resources, nondisruptive migration of data from existing storage, simplifying implementation and minimizing disruption to users. By using the IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Disk System, you can virtualize and reuse existing disk systems, supporting a greater potential return on investment (ROI).
The IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Disk System consolidates block and file workloads into a single storage system for simplicity of management and reduced cost. The Storwize V7000 systems are also available for block-only workloads. Figure 1 shows a Storwize V7000 with block only support and a Storwize V7000 Unified with block and file support.
Figure 1 IBM Storwize V7000 and Storwize V7000 Unified
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