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IBM XIV® Storage System Specifications

Physical Features
Disks
  • Very High Density Slower Rotation (VHDSR) disk drives
  • 7200 RPM supported
  • Capacity: 1 TB
Physical Specifications
  • Dimensions: Height: 78.4 in (199.1 cm); Width: 23.6 in (60 cm); Depth: 45 in (114.2 cm)
  • Maximum weight: 1,949 lb (884 kg) [Partial rack customers should plan for full rack weight]
  • Clearance: Front: 47 in (120 cm); Rear: 39.4 in (100 cm)
Power
  • Input voltage: Nominal, 200–240 VAC, at 60A or 30A (+/– 10%)
  • Redundant power feed
  • Single-phase power feed
Operating Environment
  • Temperature: 10-35°C
  • Altitude: up to 7,000 ft (2133 m)
  • Humidity: 25–80% non-condensing
Capacity and Resources (per module)
  • Cache–to–disk bandwidth: 240 Gbps


Functional Specifications
Data Protection
  • Active-active with N+1 redundancy on disks, modules, UPS units, and switches
  • Non-disruptive hardware and firmware upgrades
  • Remote mirroring and flexible restore
  • Differential snapshots with near-zero performance overhead
    • Up to 16,000 snapshots
    • Instant create, modify, restore
    • Writeable snapshots
    • "Snap on snap"
  • Self-healing: Rapid rebuild time after disk and module failure
Features (fully bundled with hardware)
  • LDAP authentication
  • Thin provisioning
  • Data migration
  • Storage management
  • Native multi-path support
  • Support for Tivoli® Productivity Center 4.1 and Tivoli Storage Management (TSM 6.1 ACS, TSM 6.1 CS)
Host Connectivity
  • Fibre Channel rates: 1 Gbps, 2 Gbps, 4 Gbps
  • iSCSI over Gigabit Ethernet
  • SCSI-3 protocol for both FC and iSCSI

“The XIV system is changing the productivity of IT people the world over.”

Moshe Yanai
IBM Fellow, XIV Planner

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