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IBM Storwize Entry Systems

In the first half of 2019, IBM announced its latest innovation for midmarket storage solutions; Storwize V5000e series. The Storwize V5010E and V5030E deliver the same (I/Os per second) of V5010 and V5030, yet they cost 30% less. IBM also added the NVMe-enabled all flash Storwize V5100F.


Since V5010e, V5030e, and V5100F are built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize software, the Storwize family delivers up to up to 80% storage savings and provide SMBs with affordable enterprise-class capability that makes their IT infrastructure simpler and more scalable. The following tables highlight the main common features of these models as well as the main differences between them: 


First: The Common Features

 

Feature

V5100F

V5030e

V5010e

User Interface

Web-based GUI

Management Software

IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software

Fans and Power Supplies

Fully redundant, hot-swappable

RAID Levels

0,1,10 with distributed RAID 5 (CLI) and 6

 

Second: The Different Features

Feature

V5100F

5030e

5010e

Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe)

Yes: 32 GBps

No

No

Fibre Channel (FC, FC-NVMe)

16 Gbps

No

No

Ethernet (iWARP, RoCE)

25 Gbps

No

No

Ethernet (iSCSI)

25 Gbps / 10 Gbps

10 Gb Ethernet (iSCSI)

1 Gb (iSCSI)

Maximum Drives Supported

760 per enclosure; 1520 per clustered system

760 per system; 1520 in two-way clusters

392 per system

SAS Expansion Enclosures

2U 24 drive/ 5U 92 drive

No

No

High-density Expansion Enclosures per Controller

 

Up to 8

Up to 4

Standard Expansion Enclosures per Controller

 

Up to 20

 

Up to 10

Cache per Control Enclosure/ Clustered System

64 GB or up to 576 GB/ 128 GB or up to 1.15 TB

32 GB or 64 GB/

64 GB or 128 GB

16 GB/ 32 GB/ 64 GB


Third: The Advanced Features Included with Each System

Feature

V5100F

V5030e

V5010e

Virtualization of internal storage

Yes

Yes

Yes

Data reduction pools with thin provisioning

Yes

Yes

Yes

UNMAP

Yes

Yes

Yes

Data Migration

Yes

one-way

one-way

Dual-system clustering

 

Yes

 

Compression and deduplication

Yes

Yes

 


Fourth: The Additional Available Advanced Features

 

Feature

V5100F

V5030e

V5010e

FlashCopy

Yes

Yes

Yes

Easy Tier compression

Yes

Yes

Yes

Remote mirroring

Yes

Yes

Yes

Encryption

Yes

Yes

 

External virtualization

Yes

 

 

IBM Spectrum Control

Yes

 

 

IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot

Yes

 

 

 

 

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