XIV Storage System

Highlights

• A revolutionary, high-end, disk storage system with a virtualized grid architecture designed to eliminate the complexity of storage administration and make managing storage easy
• High reliability and data availability via active-active N+1 redundancy of all key components, partition mirroring, unique self-healing, rapid rebuild times, and non-disruptive upgrades
• Unmatched total cost of ownership and environment-friendly attributes, with dramatic efficiencies in capacity, power, and space
• Enterprise-level, consistent performance through massive parallelism, disk utilization and unique caching mechanisms
• Open and integrated system, offering strong interoperability with open system servers and technologies
• Transparent, no-impact scalability, in on-demand increments, without the need for manual data migration or performance tuning, providing automatic online capacity growth
• Rich function set standard with the system software includes snapshots, thin provisioning, data migration, asynchronous and synchronous mirroring and an intuitive management console

Next-generation storage system helps enable growth without complexity

The IBM XIV Storage System is a next-generation high-end open disk storage system. An integral part of IBMs broad spectrum of system storage offerings, the XIV system has an innovative grid architecture designed to deliver the highest levels of reliability, performance, scalability and functionality at low overall cost, while eliminating complexity and providing unprecedented ease of management.

Designed for exceptionally low Total Cost of Ownership, the XIV system aims to tackle almost every aspect related to owning, operating and maintaining a storage system, including backup and restore, acquisition, environmentals, administration and downtime cost factors.

The XIV system is designed to deliver consistently high performance through the elimination of hot spots and full exploitation of all key system resources. Its ground-breaking architecture delivers these performance levels while innovatively leveraging the capacity and cost benefits of large SATA drives.

Outstanding availability and reliability are delivered through a revolutionary redundancy scheme, enabling automated self healing with exceptionally fast rebuild times. Software functionality including snapshotting, thin provisioning and space reclamation, and remote mirroring can help ease provisioning and protect business data from unexpected outages. IBM XIV can help customers deploy an information infrastructure that is reliable, versatile and available while offering improvements in storage management, provisioning and improved asset utilization.

Common features

• Provides unprecedented data protection and availability through active-active N+1 redundancy of system components
• Automatically self-tunes and delivers consistently high performance with unique, balanced data placement across all key system resources, eliminating hot spots on disks
• Rapidly self-heals, rebuilding data after a 1 TB disk drive failure in an average of 30 minutes or less for most workloads
• Promotes low total cost of ownership, enabled by high-density disks and optimal capacity use
• Enables exceptional ease of management through an intuitive user interface that simplifies configuration

Hardware summary

• Up to 21 CPUs
• Up to 72 Gbps internal switching capacity
• Up to 240 GB cache memory
• Up to 240 Gbps cache to disk bandwidth
• Up to 180 SATA 7200 RPM disks, 1 TB or 2 TB
• Up to 24 Fiber Channel ports offering 4 Gbps, 2 Gbps or 1 Gbps support
• Up to 6 iSCSI ports offering iSCSI over Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
• Redundant power feed with input voltage from 180 to 264 V ac

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