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FlexLine V2X2/V2Xf Shared Virtual Array disk system

StorageTek’s FlexLine™ V-Series storage systems provide a disk-based management solution that can help reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO) as compared to alternative offerings. By enabling you to use up to 100 percent of your disk capacity in most cases, the V-Series reduces the need for expensive disk-system over-purchase that is common with conventional disk systems.

With the V-Series, you can protect and recover your data in seconds, so you can be confident that your data will be accessible and available when you need it. The result: increased data protection and business continuity without doubling or tripling your disk expenditures.


Business Benefits 
   Using the V-Series storage systems for applications with appropriate performance demands can drive your storage and storage management cost of ownership down significantly. They are ideal for high availability applications with tight backup windows.
   Mitigating risk and planning for disaster recovery becomes easier with the FlexLine V-Series. Advanced remote and local replication technology allows you to mirror data between two geographically dispersed systems for disaster recovery purposes.
   The FlexLine V-Series supports top-line growth and your efforts to achieve the utmost availability of critical business databases online. It helps you deliver applications on time and within budget.

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Related Documents
Product Collateral
Flexline family online storage systems offering collateral (pdf 98K Jan 2005)
FlexLine Shared Virtual Array Disk Systems offering collateral (pdf 107K Oct 2004)
FlexLine V-Series Virtual Power Suite software offering collateral (pdf 155K Sept 2004)
V-Series Shared Virtual Array (SVA) disk system in the IBM DB2 environment - application note
VSM SVA component redundancy
Mainframe Linux with SVA disk and SnapVantage software - application note
 
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Features and IT BenefitsTop

Improve data availability and accessibility
The V-Series’ high availability capabilities, such as path balancing, failover and synchronous mirroring, work to help protect your mission-critical data. SnapShot software allows you to copy and recover data in seconds and provides you with as many copies as you need instantly, without significantly increasing disk space capacity. Your data is ready to share immediately after a “snap” is taken.

Simplify storage management
Managing your disk is far easier with the V-Series. The integrated management software provides a complete management environment that can save you hours of daily labor by automating and simplifying tasks. Built-in intelligence handles self-tuning, automatic media management and disruption-free configuration changes.

Contain costs and optimize your storage infrastructure
The FlexLine V-series alleviates the traditional dilemma of balancing over-allocation and under-utilization of resources with budget constraints. The V-Series advanced virtual architecture enables you to use up to 100 percent of the disk capacity you purchase in most cases. This allows you to defer acquisitions of additional primary disk, lower operating costs and reduce storage management workloads.

Ease storage consolidation
The FlexLine V-Series allows you to standardize online storage across mainframe and open systems environments.

Enhance application testing and application development
Virtual Power Suite™ SnapShot software makes application development and testing more efficient and effective. It also helps improve software quality and time to market. New applications can be tested more extensively both in terms of number of tests as well as the duration of tests with the most current live data.

Increase value with exceptional storage services
StorageTek’s Professional Services help you achieve the full benefit of your FlexLine V-Series storage system. Baseline Implementation Services include installation and configuration of administrator software and the configuration of logical volumes on the disk system, as well as knowledge transfer to your organization.

 
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Pricing varies depending on configuration and selected options. Product pricing does not include associated implementation service costs. Contact the "How to Buy" help desk at 1-800-275-4785 (01-303-673-2800) for more information.

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SoftwareTop
Virtual Power Suite™ for FlexLine V-Series storage systems
Virtual Power Suite is a complete disk management suite for StorageTek V-Series disk systems. It leverages the SVA virtual architecture to deliver 100 percent capacity utilization, automated resource management and instant data replication.

 
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FlexLine V2X/V2X2/V2Xf virtual disk system

 
SpecificationsTop
Capacity
Connectivity
ESCON ports (V2X2):4 to 32 ports, in increments of 2 or 4
ESCON logical paths (V2X2):8192 (512 per logical control unit)
Fibre Channel ports (V2X2):4 to 16 ports, in increments of 2 or 4
ESCON/Fibre Channel mixed ports (V2X2):Minimum 4 ESCON ports and 2 Fibre Channel ports to a maximum of 28 ports, in increments of 2 or 4 ESCON ports or 2 or 4 Fibre Channel ports
FICON logical paths (V2Xf):2048 (128 per logical control unit, 256 per FICON port)
FICON ports (V2Xf):8 to 16 ports, in increments of 2
System capacity
Capacity range:Up to 11.624 TB (virtual - 3390 format)
Device images supported:4096-3380-J/E/K and/or 3390-1/2/3 or 1365-3390-9
LUN sizes supported:2.6 GB with increments of 2.6 GB
7.4 GB with increments of 7.4 GB
2.0 TB (single LUN)
Effective user cache capacity:Up to 96 GB
Drive capacity:V2X2: 73 GB, 15000 rpm Fibre Channel drives
V2Xf: 73 GB, 15000 rpm Fibre Channel drives
Host / drive connections
Host interfaces:32 ESCON or
16 FICON or
16 FC
Availability
 
Path management (SVA Path - Open Systems)::Path failover, path balancing, LUN exclusion
Compatibility
 
Supported mainframe operating systems (4096 volume and 3380/3390 device support):OS/390
zOS
MVS/ESA
VM/ESA
zVM
Supported operating systems:Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Windows/NT, Windows 2000, AIX, Novell, Linux
Supported operating environments (Oracle):Sun Solaris 2.6, 7 or 8
Windows 2000 and NT
HP-UX 11.0, 11.i
AIX 4.3.3
Management
 
Storage management:Virtual Power Suite including SnapVantage, SVA Administrator, SVA Reporter monitoring software, SVA NMP framework monitoring software, High Speed Data Mover
Data replication:SnapShot copy, PPRC and PowerPPRC remote mirroring
Mechanical
 
Width:36.0 in (92.0 cm)
Height:61.0 in (155.0 cm)
Depth:30.0 in (77.0 cm)
Weight:982.0 lb (445.0 kg)
Service clearance:Front and rear: 21.3 in (54.1 cm) Side: 2.5 in (6.4 cm)
Equipment connector:Thomas & Betts (Russell-Stoll) 3750DP
Wall receptacle:Thomas & Betts 3753 or 9R33UOW
Environmental
 
Relative humidity:20% - 80%
Temperature (operating):+60° F to +90° F (+16° C to +32° C)
Power
 
KVA (dual line cord)::2.6 minimum, 3.8 maximum
Voltage:200-240 VAC
Frequency:50-60 Hz
Circuit breaker:30 Amps
KBTU per hour (dual line cord):8.6 minimum, 12.4 maximum
 
 
OptionsTop

FlexLine V2X2
73 GB, 15000 rpm Fibre drives ESCON and Fibre Channel interfaces

FlexLine V2Xf
73 GB, 15,000 rpm Fibre drives
FICON interfaces

 

 
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