 IBM Storwize V5000, announced in 2013, is a mid-range virtualizing storage system offering many of the features of the V7000 in a 2U rack-mount enclosure.Storwize V5000 supports 6 Gbit SAS and 1 Gbit iSCSI host attachment and either 8 Gbit FC or 10 Gbit iSCSI/FCoE host attachment.The system can support up to 480 drives with nineteen expansion enclosures, and up to 960 drives in a two-way cluster configuration.