IBM XIV Storage System - Storage Reinvented

The IBM XIV® Storage System is a next-generation high-end open disk storage system. An integral part of IBM’s broad spectrum of system storage and SAN offerings, the XIV system is based on a grid of standard, off-the-shelf hardware components connected in any-to-any topology by means of massively paralleled, non-blocking Gigabit Ethernet. Its innovative architecture is designed to deliver the highest levels of reliability, performance, scalability and functionality at low overall cost, while 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 at all times. Its ground-breaking architecture delivers these performance levels while innovatively leveraging the capacity and cost benefits of Very High Density Slower Rotation (VHDSR) 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
• Delivers consistently high performance and unique, automated placement and perfect balancing of data, using all key system resources (including cache, processors, disks, CPUs, switches, and connectivity), eliminating hot spots
• Automatically self-tunes to optimize for maximum performance
• Provides a revolutionary rapid self-healing that can rebuild a 1 TB disk drive in 40 minutes or less
• Promotes low total cost of ownership and green savings, enabled by high-density disks and optimal capacity use, with space reclamation, that can help reduce power, cooling, footprint, and maintenance costs
• Enables exceptional ease of management through an intuitive user interface that simplifies storage configuration

Hardware Highlights & Summary

• Up to 21 CPUs
• Up to 72 Gbps internal switching capacity
• Up to 120 GB cache memory
• Up to 240 Gbps cache to disk bandwidth
• Up to 180 VHDSR (Very High Density Slower Rotational), 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 

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