IBM Flex System V7000 Expansion Enclosure 4939H29 Manuel D’Utilisation

Draft Document for Review January 29, 2013 12:52 pm

IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node Introduction and Implementation Guide

With IBM Storwize V7000 and IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node you get the following 
Benefits:

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Simplified management and intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI) - Aid rapid 
implementation and deployment.

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Virtualization of existing storage infrastructure improves administrator productivity.

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Improve space utilization up to 33 - 50 percent and up to 75 percent less capacity needed 
with FlashCopy® snapshots.

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With IBM Storwize V7000 and IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node IBM Real-time 
Compression is designed to improve efficiency by storing up to five times as much active 
primary data in the same physical disk space. By significantly reducing storage 
requirements, you can keep up to five times more information online, use the improved 
efficiency to reduce storage costs, or achieve a combination of greater capacity and 
reduced cost.

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Increase storage performance up to 200 percent using Easy Tier technology.

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Dynamic migration helps decreasing migration times from weeks or months to days, 
eliminate the cost of add-on migration tools and provides continuous availability of 
applications by eliminating downtime.

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Thin provisioning allows you to purchase only the disk capacity needed.

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With IBM Storwize V7000 and IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node clustered systems 
support the needs of growing business while enabling you to buy additional hardware only 
as needed.

The following Data Protection features are supported with With IBM Storwize V7000 and IBM 
Flex System V7000 Storage Node:

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Volume Mirroring that allow a volume to remain online even when the storage pool backing 
it becomes inaccessible. The mirror copy is local to the system.

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Metro Mirror is a type of Remote Copy that creates a synchronous copy of data from a 
master volume to an auxiliary volume. The mirror copy is placed on a remote system and 
is an exact copy of the primary volume.

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Global Mirror provides an asynchronous copy, which means that the secondary volume is 
not an exact match of the primary volume at every point in time. The Global Mirror function 
provides the same function as Metro Mirror Remote Copy without requiring the hosts to 
wait for the full round-trip delay of the long-distance link. Like Metro Mirror the mirror copy 
is placed on a remote system.

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Remote replication functions create exact copies of your data at remote locations to help 
you stay up and running in case of an emergency.

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FlashCopy and snapshot functions create instant copies of data to minimize data loss.

Mirroring limitations: Global (long distance of greater than 300 Km) mirroring is only 
supported over an FC SAN infrastructure. Local Mirroring (less than 300 Km) is 
supported over either an FC or FCoE SAN infrastructure. Mirroring over iSCSI fabric is 
not supported at this time. Consult System Storage Interoperability Center for 
supported configurations.