Highlights

• A revolutionary high-end disk storage architecture designed to eliminate the complexity of administration and management of tiered storage and information lifecycle management.
• Near-instantaneous and highly space-efficient snapshots provide point-in-time copies of data, which consume storage capacity only per changes while maintaining high performance.
• System virtualization that greatly simplifies IT operations and optimizes performance through automatic distribution of data across system resources, avoiding hot spots without manual tuning.
• High reliability achieved through unique self-healing functionality, which can enable the system to rebuild a 1 TB disk drive within 30 minutes or less, with almost no performance impact.
• Optimized, consistent performance derived from the system’s massive parallelism, disk utilization, and unique caching algorithms.
• Amazingly intuitive user interface and system virtualization greatly simplify storage configuration and management.
• Built-in thin provisioning that can help reduce direct and indirect costs by allowing users to install capacity only for data actually written, and gradually grow it over time with minimal management effort.

• Greener power usage enabled through the use of large capacity SATA drives and optimized use of disk capacity, resulting in outstanding power consumption efficiency per TB, without compromising performance.

A grid-based storage system of independent modules

Outstanding availability and reliability are delivered through a revolutionary redundancy scheme, enabling automated self healing with exceptionally fast rebuild times. Additionally, software functionality including snapshot capability, thin provisioning, and remote mirroring can help to ease provisioning and protect business data from unexpected outages. The IBM XIV Storage System can help customers deploy an information infrastructure that is reliable, versatile and available while offering improvements in storage management, provisioning and improved asset utilization.

IBM XIV Storage System

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