IBM XIV Storage System

  • 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

Next-generation storage system helps enable growth without complexity

The IBM XIV® Storage System is a next-generation high-end open disk storage system. 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 providing unprecedented ease of management.

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 high-density drives.

Outstanding availability and reliability are delivered through a revolutionary redundancy scheme, enabling automated self-healing with exceptionally fast rebuild times. Software functionality including snapshots, thin provisioning with space reclamation, and remote mirroring can help ease provisioning and protect business data from unexpected outages.

Common features

Hardware summary
  • 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
  • Rapidly self-heals, rebuilding data of a 1 TB disk drive in 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 a simple and intuitive user interface
  • Up to 21 CPUs
  • Up to 72 Gbps internal switching capacity
  • Up to 120 GB cache memory
  • 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
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