IBM
IBM XIV Storage System
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
Highlights
- A revolutionary, high-end, disk storage system designed to eliminate the complexity of administration and management of tiered storage.
- Fully virtualized grid architecture, supporting mission-critical workloads and innovatively designed to simplify storage in virtually every way
- 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 breakthrough ease of management, full system virtualization, and 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 integration with the IBM portfolio and diverse 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, enterprise-class function set bundled with the system software including virtually unlimited, near-instant differential snapshots, thin provisioning, data migration, asynchronous and synchronous mirroring, as well as an intuitive management console
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
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