Highlights

The IBM XIV Storage System integrates the latest technology advances and an innovative design to deliver a grid-based storage system in an extremely easy-to-manage environment. It is a fully scalable, high-end system that delivers an excellent TCO-benefit ratio.

XIV technology translates into a totally new experience in storage management. It achieves this breakthrough on several fronts and by numerous means:

• Performance – Innovatively using mass parallelism, a unique caching design, and perfect load-balancing, the XIV system delivers outstanding performance and maintains consistent high performance through any failure
• Reliability – The system's grid architecture and revolutionary redundancy scheme immunize against any single failure and greatly reduce double-failure risk
• Single-architecture storage – The XIV system delivers first-class performance, reliability and features, at low TCO, eliminating the need for tiered storage management
• High density drives for enterprise – The XIV system extracts high-end performance from enterprise-class, very high density slower rotation (VHDSR) drives while granting its users their cost, density and power savings benefits
• Snapshots – The XIV system combines revolutionary replication technology with huge CPU and cache power to offer endless differential snapshots with performance intact
• Thin provisioning – The XIV system allocates physical disk space per actual storage used rather than per storage space defined, reducing capital and operational costs
• Scalability – The XIV system scales to petabytes of storage and provides linear scalability with respect to CPU power, cache, and bandwidth
• 100% standard components – The XIV system runs entirely on off-the-shelf hardware, such as standard Intel-based servers and gigabit Ethernet switches, offering an exceptionally cost-effective and future-proof solution
• Grid architecture – Built from a grid of components connected via any-to-any topology, the XIV system offers exceptional scalability, performance and reliability
• True virtualization built-in – The XIV system separates logical and physical entities, and applies all volume to all disks, for top performance and easy management