XIV Product News
April 13, 2010. IBM XIV demonstrates how growth in data does not have to mean growth in complexity:
Double the Capacity - IBM XIV uses 2TB drives to double the usable and raw capacity of the system while providing exceptional performance. Now even fast-moving, online applications can take advantage of the cost, power, and footprint savings to be had from larger disk drives. XIV's fully virtualized implementation helps clients to utilize larger drives without the complexity of manual performance tuning or manual data placement. New 2TB drives in XIV can reduce the cost per TB and the power consumption while maintaining the same footprint and roughly equivalent performance, given the same workload. Because of its grid architecture, XIV enables clients to take better advantage of the 2TB drives, while many other disk systems relegate them to the archive pool.
Nov. 11, 2009. IBM announces new XIV enhancements, including flexible asynchronous mirroring and instant space reclamation.
Easy, Flexible Mirroring. XIV asynchronous mirroring enables replication at virtually unlimited distances between sites in support of disaster recovery and remote backup solutions. This feature complements the existing XIV synchronous mirroring capability. XIV asynchronous mirroring is flexible and can be issued automatically, based on a user-configurable schedule, manually, using dedicated commands, or both. The flexibility and power of asynchronous mirroring is delivered through the familiar and easy to use XIV user interface, streamlining day-to-day mirroring-related operations.
Instant Space Reclamation. Lower costs via optimization of capacity use is made possible through the XIV Thin Provisioning capability. Previously, XIV Thin Provisioning space reclamation detected and released unused storage on a periodic basis. The XIV instant space reclamation function allows supporting applications to interlock with XIV to detect unused space instantly -- so it can be automatically and immediately reassigned for reuse.
Automated Snapshot Management through IBM Tivoli FlashCopy Manager 2.1 support. IBM XIV enables automated, policy-based management of multiple snapshots through the recently introduced Tivoli FlashCopy Manager 2.1., helping alleviate scripting tasks, improve service levels, enhance data protection and recoverability, and simplify snapshot management especially in complex heterogeneous storage environments. From within Tivoli, XIV customers can easily leverage the XIV snapshot capability to perform and manage frequent, near-instant, non-disruptive, application-aware backups and restores..
Snapshot management through Tivoli FlashCopy Manager is in addition to the full support IBM XIV provides IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6.1, and is geared to customers who are not using TSM.
The integration provides an easy to use, configure, and deploy data protection solution for powerful leveraging of XIV snapshots, and supports IBM DB2, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft File System application data. Tivoli FlashCopy Manager 2.1 replaces IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services and Advanced Copy Services.
July 14, 2009. The IBM XIV Storage System offers new enhancements that make enterprise storage easier to manage, faster, and more secure... at lowest possible total overall cost.
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.1 support for discovery, asset and utilization management, historical trending and alerting within XIV environments.
- Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Copy Services 6 and Advanced Copy Services for enhanced copy, backup, and restore operations for Windows® and AIX applications.
