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Supported IBM Storage systems (HW)

System type

BVQ support

min. BVQ versionLicensing
based on

Comment

SAN Volume Controller (except model SA2/SV2)

yes

any

TiB
SAN Volume Controller model SA2/SV2yes6.1.3TiB

IBM Storwize V7000U

yes

anyTiB *1 

 


IBM Storwize V3500
IBM Storwize V3700

yes

anyTiB *1 


IBM Storwize V5000 Gen1
IBM Storwize V5000 Gen2

yes

anyTiB *1 


V5010, V5020, V5030

IBM Storwize V7000 Gen1
IBM Storwize V7000 Gen2

yesanyTiB *1 
IBM Storwize V5000 Gen3yes5.7.2TiB *1 V5010E, V5030E, V5100


IBM FlashSystem V840
IBM FlashSystem V9000

yes

anyTiB *1 
IBM FlashSystem FS840
IBM FlashSystem FS900		yesanyTiB *1 no performance stats gathered
IBM FlashSystem FS91xxyes5.5TiB *1 
IBM FlashSystem FS92xxyes6.1.3TiB *1 
IBM FlashSystem FS95xxyes2022.H1.6TiB

*1 Enclosured based pricing is available for customers who have used this form of licensing before BVQ Version 6.1.




IBM Storage systems (SW)

Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) & Storwize

Code version

BVQ support

BVQ version

Comment / Limits

<7.6.0.0

not supported

N/A

Out of IBM support (BVQ support on special request)

7.6.0.0 → 7.6.1.8supported4.0 → currentToleration support - Support of new V7.6 Feature: DRAID integrated in 4.1
7.7.0.0 → 7.7.0.5supported4.1.1 → currentToleration support - Support of new V7.7 Features: IO throttling planned for later release
7.7.1.1 → 7.7.1.9supported5.0.1 → currentToleration support - Support of new V7.7.1
7.8.0.0 → 7.8.0.2supported5.0.2 → currentToleration support - Support of new V7.8 Features: Cloud tiering planned for later release
7.8.1.0 → 7.8.1.16supported5.2.7 → currentToleration support - Support of new V7.8.1 Feature: Port congestion stats integrated in 5.5
8.1.0.0 → 8.1.0.2supported5.4 → currentToleration support - Support of new V8.1.0 Feature: Hot spare node planned for later release
8.1.1.0 → 8.1.1.2supported5.4 → currentToleration support - Support of new V8.1.1
8.1.2.0 → 8.1.2.1supported5.5 → currentToleration support - Support of new V8.1.2 Feature: Data Reduction Pool integrated in 5.6.3
8.1.3.0 → 8.1.3.6supported5.5 → currentToleration support - Support of new V8.1.3 Feature: Deduplication integrated in 5.6.3
8.2.0.0 → 8.2.0.4supported5.5.3 → currentSupport for FS9100 & V7000
8.2.1.0 → 8.2.1.17supported

5.6.2 → current

Toleration support - Support of new V8.2.1 Features: NVMe planned for later release
8.3.0.0 → 8.3.0.3supported5.7.1 → currentToleration support
8.3.1.0 → 8.3.1.9supported6.1.0 → currentToleration support
8.4.0.0 → 8.4.2.0supported6.2.6 → currentToleration support
8.5.0.0 → 8.5.0.8supported2022.H1.4 → currentToleration support
8.5.2.0 → 8.5.2.2supported2022.H1.4 → currentToleration support
8.5.3.0 → 8.5.3.1supported2022.H2.4 → currentToleration support
8.5.4.0supported2022.H2.6 → currentToleration support
8.6.0.1supported2023.H1.2 → currentToleration support
All otheron requestN/A

Versions which are not mentioned above are considered as 'not supported'.
Please contact us in this case!  We reserve the time to test new versions internally first.

IBM FlashSystem FS900

Code version

BVQ support

BVQ version

Comment / Limits

1.3.0.2 → 1.3.0.9not supported4.0 → 5.4.0

 Tejas performance stats not gathered

1.4.0.7 → 1.4.0.10not supported4.0 → 5.4.0
1.4.3.0not supported4.0 → 5.4.0
1.4.4.0 → 1.4.6.1not supported4.0 → 5.4.0
1.4.7.0not supported5.4.1 → current
1.4.8.0not supported5.4.1 → current
1.5.1.0 → 1.5.1.2not supported5.4.1 → current
1.5.2.7 → 1.5.2.12supported5.4.1 → current
1.6.1.0 → 1.6.1.5supported5.4.1 → current
All otheron requestN/A

Versions which are not mentioned above are considered as 'not supported'.
Please contact us in this case!  We reserve the right to test unknown versions internally first.

(info)  IBM has discontinued service for FS840 and code versions <1.5.2.7. With that, we also no longer can support these system or code versions. IBM has announced to discontinue service for FS900 at . BVQ support for FS900 systems will also end at this point in time.




NetApp ONTAP systems (SW)

ONTAP version

BVQ support

BVQ version

<9.6

not supported


9.6

supported

6.2 → current
9.7supported6.2 → current
9.8

supported

6.2 → current
9.9supported6.2 → current
9.10

supported

6.2 → current
9.11

supported

6.2 → current
9.12supported6.2 → current




EMC Unity systems (SW)

Unisphere version

BVQ support

BVQ version

Comment

<4.5

not supported



4.5 → 4.9

on request



5.0supported6.2 → current




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