IBM Storwize Rapid Application Storage Solutions
IBM Storwize Rapid Application Storage Solutions
IBM Storwize Rapid Application Storage Solutions
Data Sheet
IBMStorwize Rapid
Application Storage
solutions
Efficient, integrated, pretested and powerful solutions
to accelerate deployment and return on investment.
Highlights
Performance bottlenecks
Optional
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
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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:
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
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