The IBM Storwize V7000 disk system is designed to use IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) technology to deliver high performance, advanced function, high availability, and modular and scalable storage capacity:

• Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10
• Provides SAN-attached 8 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) host connectivity and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and Gigabit iSCSI host connectivity
• Accommodates up to twenty-four 2.5-inch disk drives or twelve 3.5-inch disk drives installed within the IBM Storwize V7000 Control Enclosure with attachment support for up to nine IBM Storwize V7000 Expansion Enclosures, providing modular and highly scalable storage solutions that range up to 240 TB physical storage capacity, and 480 TB physical storage capacity in a clustered system
• Supports intermixing of SAS drives, Nearline SAS drives, and solid state drives within IBM Storwize V7000 Control Enclosures and IBM Storwize V7000 Expansion Enclosures
• Includes IBM Easy Tier technology for automatically moving heavily used data extents onto high-performance SSD storage
• Supports attachment of other storage devices via the FC interface, just as the SVC
• Supports a complete set of SVC functions, including FlashCopy, RemoteCopy, Volume Mirroring, and thin provisioning