A Brief History of SVC and Storwize Family

Introducing the next member of the Storwize family

IBM Storwize V5000

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SAS Disk Expansion Ports

Storwize V5000
Mgmt and 1Gbps iSCSI
4x 8Gbit Fibre Channel

SAS Host Attach Ports

 V5000 – base model includes

– Supports up to 168 SFF drives (7 enclosures), 84 LFF drives per control enclosure
– Up to two control enclosures can cluster to form single system (2x capacity & perf)
– Dual Mini-HD SAS 6Gbps dual redundant drive chains
• (2x Mini-HD SAS 6Gbps Host attachment)
– 2x 1Gbit iSCSI ports
– 4x 8Gbit Fibre Channel module, or 2x 10Gbit CNA module
– Quad Core Xeon class CPU (compared to Dual Core desktop class in V3x00)

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IBM Storwize V5000

Modular Hardware Building Blocks in 2U
 Enclosures contain up to twelve 3.5” or twenty-
four 2.5” drives in just 2U
 Control enclosure: dual active-active controllers
and drives; Expansion
enclosure: drives only
 Up to six expansion enclosures attach to one
control enclosure, via two chains of three.
 Mix drive sizes and HDD/SSD in enclosure 2U
 Host Interfaces(per system) :
– Four 1Gbps iSCSI ports and Proven Storwize software functionalities
– 8x 8Gbps Fibre Channel or  New GUI (easy-to-use, web based)
– 4x 10Gbps iSCSI / FCoE  RAS services and diagnostics
 16GB cache per controller pair  RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
 Same control and expansion chassis as V3x000  Storage virtualization (for data import at not cost)
series – but different branding, part numbers etc
– Not intermixable  Non-disruptive data migration
 Clustering up to two control enclosures  Thin provisioning
 Licensed Features
All Storwize family – External Virtualization
products run the same – Global & Metro Mirror
SVC Code binary images – FlashCopy up to 256 copies of each volume
– Easy Tier (dynamic HDD/SSD management)

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Family Comparison
V3500 (China) V3700 V5000 V7000

Clustering No No 2 way 4 way

Max Expansions 0 4 6 9
per control (cluster) (0) (4) (12) (36)
Max Disks LFF 12 60 168 480
Max Disks SFF 24 120 336 960

Max Capacity Raw 48TB 240TB 672TB 1920TB

Host Interfaces 1G iSCSI 1G iSCSI 1G iSCSI 1G iSCSI

8G Fibre Channel 8G Fibre Channel 8G Fibre Channel 8G Fibre Channel
10G iSCSI 10G iSCSI 10G iSCSI
10G FcoE 10G FcoE 10G FCoE
6G SAS 6G SAS

Virtualization Yes Yes Yes Yes

(Data Import)
Virtualization No No License License
(SVC Style)
FlashCopy > 64 License * License * License Yes
Easy Tier No License License Yes

Compression No No No License
Replication No License License License

Turbo Mode No License N/A N/A

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* Up to 64 included in base license
SVC Storwize Family – Fibre Channel Performance

V3700 V3700T V5000 V7000 SVC CG8

Cache Read MB/s 3,300 5,950 5,700 5,500 6,050
Cache Write MB/s 1,100 2,250 2,450 3,300 3,500
Cache Read IOPs 260,000 500,000 700,000 906,000 1.1M
Cache Write IOPs 48,000 100,000 300,000 250,000 300,000

Disk Read MB/s 2,500 3,850 5,500 3,800 5,380

Disk Write MB/s 815 1,450 2,400 2,270 2,800
Disk Read IOPs 45,000 65,000 85,500 130,000 365,000
Disk Write IOPs 12,300 16,200 18,200 25,000 115,000
70/30 Mixed IOPs 23,000 37,500 40,500 56,000 200,000

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The IBM Storwize Family

SAN Volume
Controller

Flex System
V7000
Storwize V7000
Unified

Storwize V7000

Storwize V5000 •One code base on all platforms

2H13 •One set of functions (selectively licensed)
•One user interface
Storwize V3700 •One CLI
+(Turbo 1H13)
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