A revolutionary high-end disk storage architecture designed to eliminate the complexity of administration and management of tiered storage and information lifecycle management.
Near-instantaneous and highly space-efficient snapshots provide point-in-time copies of data, which consume storage capacity only per changes while maintaining high performance.
System virtualization that greatly simplifies IT operations and optimizes performance through automatic distribution of data across system resources, avoiding hot spots without manual tuning.
High reliability achieved through unique self-healing functionality, which can enable the system to rebuild a 1 TB disk drive within 30 minutes or less, with almost no performance impact.
Optimized, consistent performance derived from the system’s massive parallelism, disk utilization, and unique caching algorithms.
Amazingly intuitive user interface and system virtualization greatly simplify storage configuration and management.
Built-in thin provisioning that can help reduce direct and indirect costs by allowing users to install capacity only for data actually written, and gradually grow it over time with minimal management effort.
Greener power usage enabled through the use of large capacity SATA drives and optimized use of disk capacity, resulting in outstanding power consumption efficiency per TB, without compromising performance.
Customer-centric, low point of entry (27 TB usable) with incremental scaling (in 6 TB increments) to full rack capacity (79 TB usable), enabling organizations to start small based on current needs and flexibly add capacity while in production and with no need to reconfigure.
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A grid-based storage system of independent modules
The IBM XIV® Storage System is a next-generation high-end open disk storage system. Part of IBM’s broad spectrum of system storage and SAN offerings, the XIV Storage System is an innovative, enterprise disk system based on a grid of standard, off-the-shelf hardware components. The IBM XIV system employs a storage architecture designed to provide the highest levels of performance, reliability, and functionality combined with unprecedented ease of management and exceptionally low TCO.
The IBM XIV Storage System is designed to deliver consistently high performance through the elimination of hot spots and the full exploitation of system resources. Its ground-breaking architecture provides optimized performance, scalability, and ease of management while harnessing the high capacity and cost benefits of SATA drives.
Outstanding availability and reliability are delivered through a revolutionary redundancy scheme, enabling automated self healing with exceptionally fast rebuild times. Additionally, software functionality including snapshot capability, thin provisioning, and remote mirroring can help to ease provisioning and protect business data from unexpected outages. The IBM XIV Storage System 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
Hardware summary
Employs unique, patented parallel architecture and caching algorithms built from a grid of standard Intel/Linux components connected in any-to-any topology using Gigabit Ethernet
Built from a grid of standard Intel®/Linux® components connected in any-to-any topology using Gigabit Ethernet
Incorporates active-active N + 1 redundancy of all system components with hot-swappable components and data mirroring
Provides a unique, automated balancing of data placement to best leverage all system components, eliminating hot spots
Automatic self-tuning optimizes for maximum performance, regardless of application and user access patterns
Revolutionary self-healing process allows re-building a 1 TB disk drive in 30 minutes or less
Designed to be green, utilizing high-capacity SATA disk storage which can help reduce power, cooling and footprint costs
Offers up to 16,000 near-instantaneous differential snapshots with no performance penalty
Simplified management with built-in virtualization provides optimal layout and performance with no management effort
Single tier storage architecture designed to provide all applications high-end performance and reliability at an affordable cost structure
Up to 15 CPUs
Up to 168 Gbps internal switching capacity
Up to 120 GB cache memory
Up to 240 Gbps cache to disk bandwidth
Up to 180 SATA II, 1 TB, 7200 rpm disks
Up to 24 Fiber Channel ports offering 4 Gbps, 2Gbps or 1 Gbps multi-mode and single-mode support
Up to 6 iSCSI ports offering iSCSI over Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
Redundant power feed with input voltage from 180 to 264 VAC
