text: Consider the following points when planning for the Storwize V7000: 
  
  (cid:2) Collect and document the number of hosts (application servers) to attach to the Storwize 
  V7000. Identify the traffic profile activity (read or write, sequential, or random), and the 
  performance requirements (bandwidth and input/output [I/O] operations per second 
  [IOPS]) for each host. 
  
  (cid:2) Decide whether you are going to use Storwize V7000 to virtualize external storage. If you 
  do, collect and document the following items: 
  
  – Information on the back-end storage that exists in the environment and is intended to 
  
  be virtualized by the Storwize V7000. 
  
  – Whether you must configure image mode volumes. If you want to use image mode 
  volumes, decide whether and how you plan to migrate them into managed mode 
  volumes. 
  
  – Information about the planned new back-end storage to be virtualized by the Storwize 
  V7000. 
  
  – The required virtual storage capacity for fully provisioned and space-efficient (SE) 
  volumes. 
  
  – The required storage capacity for: 
  
  (cid:129) Local mirror copy (volume mirroring) 
  (cid:129) Point-in-time copy (IBM FlashCopy) 
  (cid:129) Remote copy (Metro Mirror and Global Mirror) 
  (cid:129) Compressed volumes 
  (cid:129) Encrypted volumes 