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 ILM or tiered storage management
Large capacity drives for enterprise – The XIV system extracts high-end performance from SATA 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
