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IBM Storwize Rapid
Application Storage
Efficient, pretested, integrated and powerful solution to
accelerate deployment and return on investment.
In storage management today, breaking the cycle of increased complexity
Highlights and explosive data growth can be a big challenge. The old ways of buying
and managing storage have become less effective. Due to resource
● Improve disk utilization by up to constraints—both physical storage resources and human resources—
30 percent with thin provisioning and
virtualization IT organizations must act quickly to optimize and simplify their infra-
structure. Unchecked complexity and growth will only become bigger
● Improve administrator productivity up to
problems over time.
two times with easy to use GUI and
virtualization
Organizations of all sizes may suffer from a range of challenges:
● Application throughput improved up to
three times, with up to 60 percent
improved response time with Easy Tier ● Low disk utilization
● Performance bottlenecks
● Easy integration with applications:
IBM DB2, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft
● Slow solution deployment caused by lack of resources
Exchange and SQL Server ● Reduced productivity and increased cost caused by isolated server and
storage management tools
● Improve data protection by 95 percent
with hourly snapshots
● Difficulty managing the explosion of data with flat or slightly increasing
budgets
● Cut implementation time in half with
implementation services
● Backup windows have shrunk and many times applications have to be
taken down for backups
To stand up to these challenges and allow businesses to respond to a
rapidly changing marketplace, the IBM® Storwize® Rapid Application
Storage solution is designed to provide unmatched performance, avail-
ability, advanced functions, and highly scalable capacity never seen before
in midrange disk systems. The IBM Storwize Rapid Application Storage
solution is a powerful solution that has been designed to be easy to use
and to enable rapid deployment without additional resources. The
included Storwize V7000 is virtualized storage that offers greater
efficiency and flexibility through built-in “thin provisioning” and replica-
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integrated storage solution to speed deployment and return on
investment. The solution offers easy-to-use, efficient and cost-
effective management capabilities for both new and existing
storage resources in your IT infrastructure.
Advanced management with IBM Tivoli
Storage Productivity Center for Disk
Midrange Edition
IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange
Edition provides comprehensive performance monitoring and
alerting from a single console. Monitoring and reporting of
breakthrough ease-of-use. Storwize V7000 advanced functions performance metrics such as I/O, data rates and cache utiliza-
also enable non-disruptive migration of data from existing tion can enhance storage efficiency and optimization. TPC-
storage, simplifying implementation and minimizing disruption MRE helps staff establish threshold levels based on business
to users. IBM Storwize V7000 also enables you to virtualize and policies and alerts when these levels are reached. This single
reuse existing disk systems, supporting a greater potential console management capability can improve storage return on
return on investment (ROI). investment and reduce administration costs by management
simplification.
Managing the information infrastructure
The need to increase storage efficiency has led many IT organi- Protecting data and improving
zations to turn to consolidation, virtualization and automated availability with IBM Tivoli Storage
tiering to reduce capital and operational expenses. IBM offers FlashCopy Manager
solutions today that can become part of your highly efficient, IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager can improve data pro-
highly capable, next-generation information infrastructure, tection up to 95 percent and is designed for today’s business
whether your storage environment supports a small or midsize world, where application servers are operational 24 hours a
organization or a large, complex data center. day—yet data must remain fully protected. If you have
a 24×7 environment, you can’t afford to lose any data; you also
Introducing the IBM Storwize Rapid can’t afford to stop critical systems for hours so you can protect
Application Storage Solution the data adequately IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
IBM Storwize Rapid Application Storage solution combines exploits Storwize V7000 snapshot capabilities to provide high
hardware, software and implementation services to provide a speed, low impact, integrated backup and restore functionality
complete solution to help support improved storage efficiency. for critical applications . Automated policy based management
The solution combines IBM’s industry leading Tivoli® Storage of multiple snapshot backup versions provides an easy-to-use
Productivity Center, Tivoli Storage FlashCopy® Manager, and quick-to-deploy data protection solution that enables the
award winning Storwize V7000 with three year hardware/ most stringent database recovery time requirements to be met.
software maintenance and the services to provide a pretested, IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager can help deliver the
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you can create 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 utiliza-
tion and reduce the amount of capacity required for copies.
IBM Storwize V7000 supports incremental FlashCopy opera-
tions, which improve efficiency by copying only the portions of
the source or target volume that have been updated since the
FlashCopy function was last used, and also “copies of copies”
where one copy is itself further copied. These abilities could be
used to help maintain and update a test environment based on
production data.
highest levels of protection for mission critical IBM DB2®,
SAP, Oracle, Microsoft® Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server Implementation services
applications via integrated application-aware snapshot backup Implementing a new storage hardware and software solution
and restore capabilities. And custom application support offers can be a headache. Overworked administrators must take time
the ability to extend FlashCopy Manager capabilities to any out of their schedule to perform the implementation, meaning
application on IBM AIX®, Linux®, and Solaris. that important work directly related to your business may be
delayed. As a result, the implementation may not be completed
Traditional approaches to taking “consistent” backup copies quickly or even completely. Consequently, business value
of data can require applications to be down for many minutes from the new storage solution is delayed and perhaps limited.
or even hours while a backup copy is created. In contrast, Additional maintenance and lease costs are an all-too-familiar
FlashCopy Manager coordinates applications and the result as well.
IBM Storwize V7000 FlashCopy function so that applications
do not need to be stopped but merely quiesced, usually for just To help avoid these problems, the IBM Storwize Rapid
a few minutes. FlashCopy Manager helps with restores too. Application Storage solution includes IBM implementation
For example, FlashCopy manager can restore an individual services for IBM Storwize V7000 and associated software prod-
Exchange mailbox from a backup copy, helping users ucts to enable a more predictable implementation that can
become productive again much more quickly and with less accelerate return on investment in IBM disk technology by
administrator effort. reducing implementation time by up to 50 percent. These
services are delivered by highly skilled IBM storage specialists
IBM Storwize V7000 includes a very rich FlashCopy function who can help facilitate the implementation, allowing your IT
that is designed to create an almost instant copy of active data, staff to focus on higher priority business initiatives. IBM offers
which can be used for backup purposes or for parallel process- a fixed-price, fixed-scope service for the implementation of
ing activities. Up to 256 copies of each volume may be created. IBM Storwize V7000 and associated software, enabling
When combined with IBM Storwize V7000 thin provisioning,
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predictable costs for your budget. The offering is designed to IBM Storwize V7000 control and expansion enclosures are each
help streamline implementation of the IBM Storwize Rapid available in two models—one with twelve 3.5" disk drive bays
Application Storage solution to minimize business disruptions. or one with twenty-four 2.5" disk drive bays. The system sup-
The service team provides highly skilled and experienced ports intermixing 12-bay or 24-bay enclosures in a single sys-
IBM storage specialists with strong project management skills tem. The expansion enclosures connect to the control enclosure
and time-tested methodologies to deliver implementation serv- using four SAS 6 Gbps disk expansion ports.
ices on time. They also provide basic skills instruction to
increase understanding of implementation and product features. ● Control enclosure—Supporting attachment of up to nine
expansion enclosures with configurations up to 240 TB physi-
IBM Storwize V7000 system description cal storage capacities
The IBM Storwize V7000 storage system can improve disk ● Expansion enclosure—Packaged in a 2U rack-mountable
utilization by up to 30 percent, increase application throughput enclosure that houses twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays or
by up to three times and increase response time by up to twelve 3.5-inch drive bays and dual power supplies with
60 percent. It is packaged in 2U rack-mountable enclosures cooling components. Physical storage capacity of up to 24 TB
that house up to twenty-four 2.5-inch drives or up to twelve per storage expansion enclosure using twelve 3.5-inch 2 TB
3.5-inch drives. Control enclosures contain drives, redundant near-line SAS disk drive modules and up to 14.4 TB per
dual-active intelligent RAID controllers and dual power storage expansion enclosure using twenty-four 2.5-inch
supplies, batteries and cooling components. Expansion enclo- 600 GB SAS disk drive modules.
sures contain drives, switches, power supplies and cooling
components. You can attach up to nine expansion enclosures to For detailed Storwize V7000 specifications, please visit:
a control enclosure, enabling the system to scale up to ibm.com/storage/storwizev7000
240 drives. Other components and characteristics of the system
include: Why IBM?
The performance and availability of your storage environment
● Internal storage capacity—Up to 24 TB of physical storage can either enhance or hamper your business processes. That’s
per enclosure using twelve 2 TB near-line SAS disk drive where IBM comes in. As a market leader in the storage indus-
modules or up to 14.4 TB of physical storage per enclosure try, we can help you handle the challenges. Innovative technol-
using twenty-four 2.5-inch 600 GB SAS disk drive modules ogy, open standards, excellent performance, a broad portfolio of
● Disk drives—SAS disk drives, near-line SAS disk drives and proven storage software, hardware and solutions offerings—all
SSDs. Intermix of these drive types within the IBM Storwize backed by IBM with its recognized industry leadership—are just
V7000 RAID controller and storage expansion enclosures add a few of the reasons you should consider the IBM Storwize
flexibility Rapid Application Storage solution for your IT environment.
● Cache memory—16 GB cache memory (8 GB per internal
RAID controller) as a base features—designed to improve With IBM, you get some of the best storage products, tech-
performance and availability nologies, services and solutions in the industry without the
● Ports—Eight 8 Gbps FC host ports (four 8 Gbps Fibre complexity of dealing with different hardware and software
Channel ports per RAID controller) and four 1 Gbps iSCSI vendors and system integrators.
host ports (two 1 Gbps iSCSI host ports per RAID con-
troller), with an RJ-45 connector for each port IBM offers tailored financing solutions to credit-qualified
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following website: ibm.com/storage/storwizev7000
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