Lenovo Storage V7000 systems can support Storwize® V3500 or Storwize V3700 systems for use as external storage.
The Storwize V3500 or Storwize V3700 system must be configured as a storage layer system, which is the default setting. See the System layers topic for further details.
To configure storage for use by a Lenovo Storage V7000, follow these general tasks on a Storwize family system:
The volumes that are presented by the storage layer system appear in the Lenovo Storage V7000 managed disk (MDisk) view. The storage system appears in the Lenovo Storage V7000 view with a vendor ID of IBM.
The Storwize V3500 or Storwize V3700 support quorum disks. Lenovo Storage V7000 systems can use MDisks that are presented by a Storwize family system as a quorum disk.
Lenovo Storage V7000 systems can use storage that is presented by a Storwize V3500 or Storwize V3700 system in a storage layer, but Metro Mirror and Global Mirror cannot interoperate between the two systems. Lenovo Storage V7000 can participate in Metro Mirror and Global Mirror partnerships only with other replication layer systems and storage layer systems can participate in Metro Mirror and Global Mirror partnerships only with other storage layer systems.
See the HyperSwap, Metro Mirror and Global Mirror partnerships topic for more information.
Volumes that are defined on a storage layer system can be used by the replication layer system as a source or target for advanced copy functions such as FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, and Global Mirror. Storwize V3500 or Storwize V3700 advanced copy functions are not supported for volumes that are used as MDisks.