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IBMSystems and Technology

Data Sheet
IBMStorwize Rapid
Application Storage
solutions
Efficient, integrated, pretested and powerful solutions
to accelerate deployment and return on investment.
Highlights

Improve disk utilization by up to


30 percent with thin provisioning
and virtualization

Improve administrator productivity


up to two times with easy-to-use GUI
and virtualization

Improve application throughput up to


three times, with up to 60 percent
improved response time with
IBM System Storage Easy Tier

Simplify integration with applications:


IBM DB2, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft
Exchange and SQL Server

Improve data protection by 95 percent


with hourly snapshots

Cut implementation time in half with


implementation and installation services
In todays storage management environment, breaking the cycle of
increased complexity and explosive data growth can be a big challenge.
The old methods of buying and managing storage have become less effec-
tive. Due to resource constraintsin both physical storage resources and
human resourcesIT organizations must act quickly to optimize and
simplify their infrastructures. Otherwise, unchecked complexity and
growth will only become bigger problems over time.
Organizations of all sizes may suffer from a range of challenges:

Low disk utilization

Performance bottlenecks

Slow solution deployment caused by lack of resources

Reduced productivity and increased cost caused by isolated server and


storage management tools

Difficulty managing the explosion of data with at or slightly


increased budgets

Backup windows have shrunk and applications often have to be taken


down for backups
To stand up to these challenges and allow businesses to respond to a
rapidly changing marketplace, the IBMStorwize Rapid Application
Storage solutions were created to provide unmatched performance, avail-
ability, advanced functions and highly scalable capacity never seen before
in midrange disk systems. The IBMStorwize Rapid Application Storage
solutions are designed to be easy to use to enable rapid deployment
without additional resources. Included in the solutions is the Storwize
V7000: virtualized storage that offers greater efficiency and exibility
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through built-in thin provisioning and replication technologies
coupled with a completely new user interface that offers
breakthrough ease-of-use. The Storwize V7000 advanced
functions also can enable non-disruptive migration of data from
existing storage, simplifying implementation and minimizing
interruption to users. The Storwize V7000 also can help you
virtualize and reuse existing disk systems, supporting a greater
potential return on investment (ROI).
Managing the information infrastructure
The need to increase storage efficiency has led many IT organi-
zations to turn to consolidation, virtualization and automated
tiering to reduce capital and operational expenses. IBMoffers
solutions today that can become part of your highly efficient,
highly capable, next-generation information infrastructure,
whether your storage environment supports a small or midsize
organization, or a large, complex data center.
Introducing the IBM Storwize Rapid
Application Storage solutions
Storwize Rapid Application Storage solutions combine hard-
ware, software and implementation services to provide a com-
plete solution that helps support improved storage efficiency.
IBMcreated two solutions to suit your storage needs, with the following benets:
Challenge Benets Storwize Rapid Application
Storage Manager
Storwize Rapid Application
Backup
Increase storage utilization Virtualization eliminates islands of storage to
improve utilization
Thin provisioning allocates storage to
applications only as needed

Optional

Increase application Easy Tier improves application performance,


performance putting the right data on solid state storage
Analytics and automated data movement
optimize performance

Increase application
availability
Application-aware backups virtually eliminate
downtime for backups, and improve data
protection by up to 95%
Online data migration moves data with almost
no downtime

Storage efficiency Efficient management of a Storage Area


Network (SAN)
Manage IBM and non-IBM storage from a
single control point

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These solutions combine IBMs industry-leading IBMTivoli
Storage Productivity Center, Tivoli Storage FlashCopy
Manager and award-winning Storwize V7000, with a three-year
hardware and optional software maintenance package, and the
services to provide a pretested, integrated storage solution to
speed deployment and return on investment. Each solution
offers easy-to-use, efficient and cost-effective management
capabilities for both new and existing storage resources in your
IT infrastructure.
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for
Disk Midrange Edition
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition
provides comprehensive performance monitoring and alerts
from a single console. Monitoring and reporting of perform-
ance metrics such as I/O, data rates and cache utilization can
enhance storage efficiency and optimization. This solution
helps staff establish threshold levels based on business policies,
and gives alerts when these levels are reached. This single
console management capability can improve storage return
on investment and reduce administration costs by simplifying
management.
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition
is an optional feature for the Storwize Rapid Application
Backup solution.
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager can improve data protection
up to 95 percent. It is designed for todays business world,
where application servers are operational 24 hours a day,
with data always remaining fully protected. If you have a high-
availability environment, you cant afford to lose any data; you
also cant afford to stop critical systems for hours in order to
protect data adequately. Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
exploits the Storwize V7000 snapshot capabilities to provide
high-speed, low-impact, integrated backup and restore
functionality for critical applications. Automated policy-based
management of multiple snapshot backup versions provides an
easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy data protection solution to
help meet the most stringent database recovery time require-
ments. Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager can help deliver the
highest levels of protection for mission-critical IBMDB2, SAP,
Oracle, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server
applications via integrated application-aware snapshot backup
and restore capabilities. Also, custom application support offers
the ability to extend FlashCopy Manager to any application on
IBMAIX, Linux and Solaris.
Traditional approaches to taking consistent backup copies of
data can require applications to be down for minutes or
even hours while a backup copy is created. In contrast,
FlashCopy Manager coordinates applications with the Storwize
V7000 FlashCopy function so that applications do not need to
be stopped but merely paused, usually for just a few minutes.
FlashCopy Manager helps with restores, too. For example,
FlashCopy manager can restore an individual Exchange mailbox
from a backup copy, helping users become productive again
much more quickly and with less administrator effort.
Storwize V7000 includes a rich FlashCopy function that is
designed to create an almost instant copy of active data which
can be used for backup purposes or parallel processing activities.
Up to 256 copies of each volume may be created. When
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combined with Storwize V7000 thin provisioning, you can cre-
ate copies using only a fraction of the amount of storage needed
for a full physical copy. This type of copy, called a snapshot, is
designed to help improve overall storage utilization and reduce
the amount of capacity required for copies.
Storwize V7000 supports incremental FlashCopy operations.
This improves efficiency by copying only the portions of the
source or target volume that have been updated since the
FlashCopy function was last used, ignoring layered copy
situations where a copy is further copied. These abilities
can help maintain and update a test environment based on
production data.
Implementation and installation services
Implementing a new storage hardware and software solution
can be a headache. Overworked administrators must take time
out of their schedules to perform implementation, meaning that
important business work may be delayed. As a result, the instal-
lation and/or implementation may not be nished quickly or
even completely, and business value from the new storage solu-
tion is delayed and perhaps limited. Additional maintenance and
lease costs are an additional all-too-familiar result.
To help avoid these problems, the Storwize Rapid Application
Storage Manager solution includes IBMimplementation serv-
ices for the Storwize V7000 and associated software products to
enable a more predictable implementation that can accelerate
return on investment in IBMdisk technology by reducing
implementation time by up to 50 percent. IBMoffers this
xed-price, xed-scope service for the implementation of the
Storwize V7000 and associated software, helping you establish
predictable costs for your budget. This offering is designed to
help streamline implementation of the Storwize Rapid
Application Storage Manager solution to minimize business
disruptions. Also available is an optional and complementary
Storwize V7000 hardware installation service. The Storwize
Rapid Application Backup solution includes installation services
for both the Storwize V7000 and Flash Copy Manager with
optional implementation services. The service team provides
highly skilled and experienced IBMstorage specialists with
strong project management skills and time-tested methodolo-
gies to deliver implementation services on time. They also
provide basic skills instruction to increase understanding of
implementation and product features.
The IBM Storwize V7000 system
description
The Storwize V7000 storage system can improve disk utiliza-
tion by up to 30 percent, increase application throughput by up
to three times and increase response time by up to 60 percent.
It is packaged in 2U rack-mountable enclosures that house up
to twenty-four 2.5-inch drives or up to twelve 3.5-inch drives.
Control enclosures contain drives, redundant dual-active intelli-
gent RAID controllers and dual-power supplies, batteries and
cooling components. Expansion enclosures contain drives,
switches, power supplies and cooling components. You can
attach up to nine expansion enclosures to a control enclosure,
enabling the system to scale up to 240 drives. Other
components and characteristics of the system include:

Internal storage capacity: Up to 36 TB of physical storage per


enclosure using twelve 3 TB near-line SAS disk drive modules
or up to 14.4 TB of physical storage per enclosure using
twenty-four 2.5-inch 600 GB SAS disk drive modules

Disk drives: SAS disk drives, near-line SAS disk drives and
SSDs. Intermix of these drive types within the IBMStorwize
V7000 Unied controller and expansion enclosures
add exibility

Cache memory: 16 GB cache memory (8 GB per internal


RAID controller) as a base featuredesigned to improve
performance and availability

Ports per control enclosure: Eight 8 Gbps Fibre Channel host


ports (four 8 Gbps FC ports per RAID controller),
four 1 Gbps and optionally four 10 Gbps iSCSI host ports
(two 1 Gbps and optionally two 10 Gbps iSCSI host ports per
RAID controller)
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Storwize V7000 control and expansion enclosures are each
available in two modelsone with twelve 3.5-inch disk drive
bays or one with twenty-four 2.5-inch disk drive bays. The
system supports intermixing 12-bay or 24-bay enclosures in a
single system. The expansion enclosures connect to the control
enclosure using four SAS 6 Gbps disk expansion ports.

Control enclosureSupporting attachment of up to nine


expansion enclosures with congurations up to 240 TB
physical storage capacities

Expansion enclosurePackaged in a 2U rack-mountable


enclosure that houses twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays or
twelve 3.5-inch drive bays and dual power supplies with
cooling components. Physical storage capacity of up to 24 TB
per storage expansion enclosure using twelve 3.5-inch 2 TB
near-line SAS disk drive modules and up to 14.4 TB per stor-
age expansion enclosure using twenty-four 2.5-inch 600 GB
SAS disk drive modules.

Clustered systemsTwo control enclosures (each with up


to nine expansion enclosures) may be clustered together in a
single system for even greater capacity and performance
growth potential. Clustered systems support up to 480 disk
drives and up to 720 TB capacity.
Why IBM?
The performance and availability of your storage environment
can either enhance or hamper your business processes.
Thats where IBMcomes in. As a market leader in the storage
industry, we can help you handle the challenges. Innovative
technology, open standards, excellent performance, a broad
portfolio of proven storage software, hardware and solutions
offeringsall backed by IBMwith its recognized industry
leadershipare just a few of the reasons you should consider
the IBMStorwize Rapid Application Storage solutions for your
IT environment.
With IBM, you get some of the best storage products, tech-
nologies, services and solutions in the industry without the
complexity of dealing with different hardware and software
vendors and system integrators.
Included IBMImplementation Services can help you streamline
the implementation of your storage solution. Using a compre-
hensive approach, our highly skilled storage specialists provide
planning, implementation, conguration, testing and basic skills
instruction to help you eliminate the need for specialized,
in-house skills and free up your IT staff to focus on higher
priority business initiatives. With IBMImplementation Services
for Storwize Rapid Application Storage you can quickly take
advantage of new storage technology, minimize business
disruptions and accelerate the return on your investment in
IBMstorage technology.
IBMoffers tailored nancing solutions to credit-qualied
clients that can be customized to address your specic IT needs
from great rates to exible payment plans and loans.
IBMStorwize Rapid Application Storage solutions at a glance
Storwize Rapid Application Storage Manager Storwize Rapid Application Backup
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
For Disk Midrange Edition
Storwize V7000 Includes external virtualization
Solution Implementation Services
Solution Installation Services Optional
3-Year Warranty on HW
3-Year Maintenance on SW
Please Recycle
For more information
To learn more about IBM Storwize V7000, please contact your
IBMsales representative or IBMBusiness Partner, or visit the
following website: ibm.com/storage/storwizev7000
Financing solutions from IBMGlobal Financing can enable
effective cash management, protection from technology
obsolescence, improved total cost of ownership and return on
investment. Also, our Global Asset Recovery Services help
address environmental concerns with new, more energy-
efficient solutions. For more information on IBMGlobal
Financing, visit: ibm.com/nancing
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