IBM and IBM Business Partners: Serving Small and Medium Sized Businesses
IBM®
Storwize V3700 (Business Partner Version)
Why buy this…small and midsize organizations with limited staff
and budget resources need to simplify the management of storage
with storage efficient systems.
Offering Summary
 Small and medium sized customers are faced with the challenges of rapidly growing amounts of
information while needing to stay responsive to a changing business environment, controlling
costs, and accomplishing all this with limited staff
 IBM Storwize V3700 is an entry disk system that offers great configuration flexibility with a very
easy-to-use interface, all packaged and priced to suit these small and medium sized businesses.
—Dual controllers with up to 180 TB of capacity and 8 GB of cache packaged in a compact, 2U 19-inch
rack-mount enclosure
—Up to 120 2.5-inch disk drives or 60 3.5-inch disk drives with four expansion units
—Host attachment through 1 Gb iSCSI ports (standard), with support for optional 8 Gb Fibre Channel or
10 Gbps iSCSI/FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet)
What makes this offering unique?
 IBM Storwize V3700 combines breakthrough IBM technologies:
—Thin provisioning, internal storage virtualization, one time dynamic migration from external arrays
—FlashCopy, multi-protocol support and a next-generation graphical user interface (GUI)
—Technologies designed to enable Storwize V3700 to deliver extraordinary ease of use and high levels of
storage efficiency
 Thin Provisioning can add business value by reducing waste:
—Purchase only the disk capacity you actually need
—No more allocating excessive upfront capacity
 Dynamic migration provides continuous availability of applications by eliminating downtime
while migrating critical data
 IBM FlashCopy® allows faster and more efficient data copies for online backup, testing or data
mining purposes
Pricing: Real-world configurations for less than $11 ,000 US List Price
ISV tested
• Visible through dedicated partnerships and ongoing work with key ISVs including VMware
and Microsoft
• Targeted solution areas include:
—Database and performance optimization
—Backup / restore
—High availability, disaster recovery
—Server virtualization
—Operations management
IBM Business Partner Confidential
IBM Storwize V3700 Quick Facts:
•New disk solution that provides advanced capabilities while
reducing complexity
 Ease-of-use with point-and-click management capabilities
with an embedded graphical user interface based on the XIV
and Storwize® V7000 interface design
 Experience near-continuous availability through integrated
non disruptive migration
 Maximize value from the IT budget – Better cost control and
minimize future storage expenses with non-disruptive
migration capabilities
 Optimize expenditures, resources and capabilities with rapid,
flexible provisioning and simple configuration changes with
internal virtualization
 Thin provisioning with continuous access to data
 Integrated non-disruptive migration protect data
 Sophisticated IBM FlashCopy® technology included in base
price
 Advanced functionality and reliability usually found only in
expensive systems
For more information:
ibm.com/partnerworld/storage