IBM continues to be a leader in research investment and to make strategic, long-term acquisitions that make it possible to provide the best solutions for clients now and offer a good return on investment going forward. When you compare the capabilities of IBM Storwize V7000 Unified against HP systems, you see the advantages of IBM storage.

1. IBM Systems and Technology
Migrating to IBM System Storage
Protect your investment with flexible storage solutions

2. 2 Migrating to IBM System Storage
Highlights
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IBM virtualization platforms and non-disruptive data
migration reduce complexity
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IBM solutions share a common, easy-to-use GUI and
support both block and file access
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Migrating to an IBM System Storage solution may be easier
than moving to another HP platform
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HP customers can continue to use Enterprise Virtual Array
units with IBM® Storwize® V7000 external virtualization
Businesses today are under tremendous pressure to manage stor-
age growth and costs, while maintaining business continuity and
optimizing business-critical applications. As you look to expand
your storage infrastructure to meet growing business demands,
you need to consider storage providers and solutions you can
depend upon in the future.
Current Hewlett-Packard (HP) Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)
customers have to deal with the uncertain future of the EVA line
of storage solutions and the cost and implications of data migra-
tion to their business. Choosing the right vendor and correct
storage infrastructure is critical. Many business leaders turn to
complimentary storage offerings from IBM to help manage their
data, content and costs.
“….IDC believes that while HP has stated
it intends to follow up with additional
enhancements to the P6000, this generation
of EVA is likely to be HP’s last.”
—IDC Product Flash, HP Announces Converged Storage, Introduces
the P6000 EVA and the Updated x9000 IBRIX, June 6th, 2011.
IBM continues to be a leader in research investment and to
make strategic, long-term acquisitions that make it possible to
provide the best solutions for clients now and offer a good
return on investment going forward. When you compare the
capabilities of IBM Storwize V7000 Unified against HP
systems, you see the advantages of IBM storage.
IBM storage solutions help clients reduce complexity with
easy-to-manage virtualization platforms and non-disruptive
data migration between multiple non-homogenous storage
devices. Storwize V7000 Unified:
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Delivers sophisticated enterprise-class storage at a midrange
cost.
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Supports your growing business requirements and help
control costs.
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Enables near-continuous availability of applications through
dynamic migration.
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Offers the ability to virtualize older arrays for single manage-
ment of the storage environment, use of advanced features
for all data and almost transparent data migration.
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Supports faster and more efficient data copies for online
backup, testing or data mining.
About IBM Storwize V7000 Unified
Storwize V7000 Unified is a virtualized storage system that
offers easier management, reduced cost, highly scalable capacity,
performance and high availability. It also offers improved effi-
ciency and flexibility through built-in solid state drive (SSD)
optimization, thin provisioning and non-disruptive migration
of data from existing storage. The system can virtualize and
reuse existing disk systems offering a greater potential return
on investment.

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IBM Systems and Technology
Storwize V7000 Unified offers:
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File support: Consolidates block and file workloads into a
single storage system.
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IBM Active Cloud Engine: Delivers policy-based file manage-
ment to reduce costs through the use of tiered storage,
including tape. It also automates deletion of unwanted or
expired files, while minimizing manual intervention.
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IBM System Storage® Easy Tier® automated storage tiering:
Advanced technology for automatically migrating data
between the storage tiers based on real-time analysis of usage
patterns. Provides significant performance improvement
with automatic migration to high performing SSDs.
External
Virtualization
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NetApp IBM Sun
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Figure 1: IBM Storwize V7000 Unified offering with external virtualization
capabilities simplifies management and migration from an HP EVA
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Next generation graphical user interface (GUI): Easy-to-use
system management with point and click system management
capabilities.
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Virtualized storage: Complements virtualized servers with
built in efficiency technologies including storage virtualiza-
tion, thin provisioning, sophisticated replication, and more.
Storage flexibility that protects your
investment
You may not be ready to dispose of all your current HP systems
yet. With Storwize V7000 Unified, you can purchase just the
right amount of internal storage capacity and still attach older
systems to Storwize V7000 Unified. This flexibility helps
protect and extend your investments and offers:
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Single easy-to-use management for both the internal Storwize
V7000 Unified capacity and externally attached HP units. You
have the same GUI the same storage provisioning process,
and storage is treated as a global pool.
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Sophisticated functions such as snapshots, Easy Tier, thin
provisioning and remote replication are all available for data
stored on HP EVA units.
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Shared backup and recovery so the same backup and recovery
processes may be used for data stored on IBM and HP disk
systems.
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Enhanced performance to help potentially improve the
performance of data stored on HP EVA systems by using the
Storwize V7000 Unified virtualization capability. The Easy
Tier function also can dramatically improve data performance
on HP EVA units.
Storwize V7000 Unified offers a new level of storage efficiency
that is not typically seen in other midrange disk systems. It sim-
plifies administration and helps increase your staff productivity.

4. 4 Migrating to IBM System Storage
“Unified storage makes sense for many data
centers, as it offers multiple ways of storing
and retrieving data from a single platform,
all done with the same management tools.
Doing this all at midrange pricing makes
IBM Storwize V7000 a good solution for
both the mid-sized and larger data centers.”
—Mike Kahn, Managing Director, The Clipper Group, Inc.
Storwize V7000 Unified can manage external arrays with a sim-
ple external virtualization license, which is cost-effective and
offers a good return on investment. Over time, you can migrate
data to other internal or external arrays.
Easy and non-disruptive data migration
Migrating data from IBM and non-IBM devices (such as
HP EVA units) is easy and non-disruptive with Storwize
V7000 Unified. You attach your current systems to a Storwize
V7000 Unified system and use intuitive wizards to migrate
your data online, while your production applications continue
to run uninterrupted. After you finish the data migration, you
can safely remove the older equipment. Data migration is a
standard feature of Storwize V7000 Unified and does not incur
any additional costs. It is included regardless of the amount of
data you migrate or the number of systems involved.
Why choose IBM storage solutions?
Every business is unique. The breadth and scale of solutions
they require are different as well. IBM storage offerings are
based on the proven IBM approach of building solutions around
industry-standard components coupled with sophisticated soft-
ware. These storage solutions range from feature-rich, scalable
enterprise storage to simple, agile offerings. IBM provides
high value solutions that are easy to deploy and manage, along
with comprehensive service and industry-leading technology.
Excessive downtime and slow response times can result in
increased costs and the loss of sales, customer goodwill and
productivity. With more companies running entire suites of
business applications on virtualization solutions like VMware,
mixed workload scalability with predictable performance is
needed. A study done by ESG Labs in February 2011 confirmed
that the Storwize V7000 Unified system can deliver exceptional
performance that is well suited to a mix of real-world business
applications running in a VMware-enabled virtual server
infrastructure.1
For more demanding applications
The Storwize V7000 Unified offering is ideal for midrange customers,
but if you need enterprise-level storage, the IBM XIV Storage System
provides Tier 1 performance and high reliability at Tier 2 costs. XIV is a
customer-proven, high-end disk storage system that offers exceptional
ease of use and high performance. The XIV solution offers:
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Consistent performance for critical business applications. The
system is designed for high performance and balances the load
evenly across components automatically, without manual tuning—
even when you add additional capacity.
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Extraordinary reliability designed to help you avoid downtime.
This offering includes advanced redundancy, self-healing, fast
rebuilds and hot upgrades, which keep your system and your
business running.
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Low total cost of ownership (TCO). Simplified management saves
time and money. High reliability can reduce downtime costs, and
most needed functions are included in the solution. The exclusive
use of high density disk drives also reduces energy and space costs.
If you have a Storwize V7000 Unified solution, you can later attach it to
a XIV for greater performance. The XIV solution uses high-capacity,
low-power drives that are optimized for Tier 1 applications and
automatically distributes workload and applications.

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IBM Systems and Technology
Storwize V7000 Unified with Easy Tier and SSDs can be
used to automatically increase the performance of a mix of
applications running in a virtual server environment. Because it
can automatically migrate only the most active data, it increases
the efficiency of your SSDs. In addition, since it reduces
response times and dramatically increases the amount of work
the virtualized infrastructure can handle, it is easier to justify the
cost difference between traditional hard drives and solid state
drives. ESG Labs saw up to 3x throughput using Easy Tier with
VMware workloads.
What are the business implications of
migrating to IBM solutions?
With IBM storage solutions such as Storwize V7000 Unified,
you can manage your growing midrange storage needs
with a single solution. Storwize V7000 Unified helps enable
consolidation of multiple storage systems for greater efficiency.
For block-only configurations, clustered systems drive the value
of consolidation even further. You can start with a very small
capacity, such as a few drives in a single enclosure, which can
grow to up to 20 enclosures with up to 480 drives in a clustered
system. In addition, with technologies such as thin provisioning,
Easy Tier, virtualization and Active Cloud Engine already
included, Storwize V7000 Unified helps customers make the
best use of their currently available storage resources.
With the Storwize V7000 Unified Storage System you don’t
need to deal with complicated product upgrades or model
changes or unnecessary data migrations. IBM’s uniform strategy
allows for companies to seamlessly grow based upon their
storage requirements to higher performance and capacity
environments through external virtualization, data mirroring
and a common management interface.
Figure 2: IBM XIV offering overview for cases where customers have a large HP EVA array and HP is offering a 3PAR solution upgrade
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Host
iSCSI
Cache
Interface Disks
CPU
SSD
(optional)
UPS UPS UPS
Data Module
Data Module
Data Module
Data Module
Inter-module
connectivity
15 data modules, each containing:
12 high-density disk drives
24 GB memory
Quad-core Intel CPU
2 X 20 Gbps InfiniBand HCA ports
400 GB SSD (optional)
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Host connectivity:
24 X 8 Gbps FC ports
22 x 1 Gbps iSCSI ports
2 InfiniBand switches:
Redundant inter-module connectivity
600 Gbps total internal bandwidth
3 UPS modules:
Stable power to all system components
Safe shutdown upon power outage
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