High Performance. Full exploitation of system resources including disks, CPUs and switches combined with unique caching algorithms translates into excellent performance
Active-Active N + 1 redundancy of all system components
High Reliability. Systems components are protected in an N+1 active-active design to help ensure the highest levels of reliability and availability
Rapid Self Healing
Reduced risk of impact from disk failure. The system’s exceptionally short rebuild process allows a 1 TB disk drive to be re-built in 30 minutes or less, helping to reduce the chance of a second disk failure during the critical time of the rebuild process
Snapshots
Near-instantaneous snapshots. The system’s innovative architecture enables snapshot copies of data to be created and made available in sub-second time
Minimal capacity overhead. Snapshot copies are differential and require capacity only to store changes in data
Up to differential 16,000 snapshots. A true solution for multi-generation logical backup, with virtually no impact to system performance
Remote mirroring
Protection against site failure. Synchronous remote mirroring provides protection against primary site outages, disasters and site failures
Thin provisioning
Reduce storage costs. Thin provisioning allows logical volumes to exceed physical capacity, while the latter only need be large enough to contain the data actually written. This flexibility can offer dramatic savings in storage, power and space costs
Simplifed provisioning. Thin provisioning can simplify the management of capacity allocation for application workloads
Data migration
Allows the migration of volumes from legacy systems to the IBM XIV Storage System, copying the information while applications are online
