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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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