Deploying IBM Storwize V7000 in VMware Environments

This paper reviews the configuration and installation practices for leveraging VMware vSphere together with IBM Storwize V7000 systems. IBM and VMware have continually provided world class virtualization solutions that can reduce client's total cost, and provide advanced storage features reducing overall downtime. In this paper these techniques have been documented and are referred to as best practices. After reviewing this paper the reader will be able to easily install and configure IBM Storwize V7000 systems along with VMware vSphere to build a completely virtual infrastructure for improved utilization, flexibility and storage efficiency.