The following 3.5-inch drives are supported:
Performance-optimized, enterprise class disk drives:
300 GB and 600 GB 15K rpm SAS
900 GB, 1.2 TB, and 1.8 TB 10K rpm SAS
High-capacity, archival-class nearline disk drives: 4 TB, 6 TB, and 8 TB 7.2K rpm NL SAS
All drives are dual-port and hot-swappable. Drives of the same form factor can be intermixed within the
appropriate enclosure, which provides the flexibility to address performance and capacity needs within a
single enclosure.
Up to 19 Storwize V5000 expansion enclosures are supported by a single Storwize V5000 control
enclosure. You can intermix 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch expansion enclosures behind a 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch
control enclosure. This configuration delivers the added flexibility to mix 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drives within
a single system.
More drives and expansion units are designed to be dynamically added with virtually no downtime, which
helps to quickly and seamlessly respond to ever-growing capacity demands.
The V5000 storage system offers high levels of system and data availability with the following technologies:
Dual-active, intelligent node canisters with mirrored cache
Dual port drives with automatic drive failure detection and RAID rebuild with global hot spares
Redundant hardware, including power supplies and fans
Hot-swappable and customer replaceable components
Automated path failover support for the data path between the server and the drives
The Storwize V5000 supports the following management interfaces:
Web-based graphical user interface (GUI) via HTTPS that requires only a supported browser
(Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox), so there is no need for a separate
console or plug-in
Command line interface (CLI) via SSH
Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)
SNMP and email notifications
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