Managing and configuring the IBM Storwize V7000

Use the information in this section to manage and configure a Storwize® V7000 system with IBM® Flex System Manager management software in a Flex System environment.

The IBM Storwize V7000 is an external storage system with a set of drive enclosures that can be connected to the Flex System Enterprise Chassis. Control enclosures contain disk drives and two node canisters. A collection of control enclosures that are managed as a single system is a clustered system. Expansion enclosures contain drives and are attached to control enclosures. Expansion canisters include the serial-attached SCSI (SAS) interface hardware that enables the node canisters to use the drives of the expansion enclosures.

The Storwize V7000 comes with storage-management software that integrates with the IBM Flex System Manager management software to perform the following functions for the host systems that attach to a storage system:

Storage pool creation
Logical unit virtualization
Logical volume management and mirroring
Large scalable cache
Copy Services
Space management

This documentation is specific to using the Storwize V7000 system with IBM Flex System Manager management software in a Flex System environment. For additional information about the Storwize V7000, see IBM Storwize V7000 Knowledge Center.

For more information about working with other storage resources, see Managing external storage resources.

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