The Lenovo 6194 is a Storwize V5000, a highly flexible, easy to use virtualized, storage system that enables midsized organizations to meet the challenges of rapid data growth and limited IT budgets. As an intermediate Storwize family offering, Storwize V5000 enables organizations to consolidate and provide new capabilities to their existing infrastructures.
Storwize V5000 control enclosure models include two node canisters each with 8 GB cache for a system total of 16 GB cache. 6 Gb SAS and 1 Gb iSCSI connectivity is standard and both models are additionally configured with either 8 Gb FC or 10 Gb iSCSI/FCoE connectivity.
The LFF enclosure models support up to twelve 3.5-inch drives, while the SFF enclosure models support up to twenty-four 2.5-inch drives. High-performance disk drives, high-capacity nearline disk drives, and flash (solid state drives, SSDs) are supported. Drives of the same form factor can be intermixed within an enclosure, providing the flexibility to address performance and capacity needs within a single enclosure.
A Storwize V5000 system scales up to 480 drives with the attachment of 19 Storwize V5000 expansion enclosures. Storwize V5000 systems can be clustered to help deliver greater performance, bandwidth, and scalability. A Storwize V5000 clustered system can contain two Storwize V5000 systems and up to 960 drives.
All Storwize V5000 functional capabilities are provided through Storwize Family Software for Storwize V5000.
Storwize V5000 is a virtualized, software-defined storage system comprised of hardware components and a requisite licensed software program product, IBM Storwize Family Software for Storwize V5000. All functional capabilities for the Storwize V5000 system are provided through Storwize V5000 software.