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Name£ºIBM XIV Storage System series
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Overview
 
IBM XIV is a high-end disk storage system designed to provide consistent, hotspot-free performance and five-nines1 availability alongside exceptional ease of use. As virtualized storage that meshes tightly with hypervisors, XIV offers optimal agility for cloud and virtualized environments.
Self-optimizing, with built-in efficiencies that simplify storage, XIV delivers the benefits of IBM Smarter Storage for Smarter Computing, empowering organizations to take control of their storage and to extract more valuable insights from their data. XIV is also supported as a high performance enterprise storage offering of the IBM PureFlex System, a single pre-integrated infrastructure system that offers simplicity, control, efficiency, and agility.
 
Highlights
The rapidly-accepted XIV Storage System series has thousands of installations worldwide, including in financial services, healthcare, energy, education, and manufacturing. IBM XIV integrates easily with virtualization, email, database, analytics, data protection, and other solutions from Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle, SAS, VMware, Symantec and other leading providers. With its massively parallel grid architecture, XIV is recognized as an ideal platform for cloud computing and virtualized environments.
The XIV Gen3 model offers 3 TB drives, providing up to 243 TB of usable capacity per rack¡ªbringing excellent price-performance value to a single floor tile. SSD caching (available as an option) adds up to 6 TB of management-free caching power to the whole array, providing up to three times the performance for active application workloads*¡ªwithout the need for setup, administration, or migration policies.
Unleashing the Power of the Architecture: XIV Gen3 design gives applications a tremendous performance boost over previous models and provides the high reliability that businesses require in today's demanding environment:
¡¤         Up to four times the throughput, cutting time and boosting performance for business intelligence, archiving, and other extremely demanding applications
¡¤         Up to three times speedier response time, enabling faster transaction processing and greater scalability with OLTP, databases, and email applications
¡¤         Gives additional boost of up to three times with IBM XIV SSD Caching (optional), accelerating access to data from all applications with zero management, at a fraction of typical SSD storage costs*
¡¤         Power to serve more applications from a single system,utilizing InfiniBand intermodule connect, large cache, fast disk controllers, high processing power, and abundant FC and iSCSI connectivity
¡¤         Robust disk rebuild mechanism uses all system disks, completing a 3 TB drive rebuild in approximately 50 minutes with minimal impact on system service
¡¤         Simple remote mirroring supported between XIV Gen3 and the XIV Storage System, offering flexibility for meeting data protection goals
 
Feature
Benefits
Distributed highly paralleled architecture
¡¤         Provides excellent hotspot-free consistent performance with self-tuning through full exploitation of system resources, including disks, RAM, central processing units (CPUs), cache, optional SSD caching and switches, combined with unique caching algorithms
Active-active with N+1 redundancy
¡¤         Ensures highest levels of reliability with redundancy of all system components and through rapid rebuild times. Also: UPS hardware protection, redundant power supply and fans; concurrent multipath host connectivity support; remote mirroring between models of different generations; nondisruptive code, hardware, and firmware upgrades
Easy storage management
¡¤         Dramatically reduces storage administration and overhead by virtualizing storage, automating balancing, capacity utilization, and complex tasks. Planned future support of IPv6*, a highly intuitive GUI, centralized administration of up to 81 systems, powerful CLI, and management tools. The IBM XIV Mobile Dashboard brings unprecedented flexibility with anytime performance and capacity monitoring from the Apple iPhone® and Apple iPad®
Wide host and application interoperability
Multiplatform support including:
¡¤         OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 - 2008, IBM AIX, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Solaris, HP-UX, and IBM iSeries (via ViOS)
¡¤         Server virtualization platforms: VMware ESX/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and IBM PowerVM
¡¤         Storage virtualization platforms such as: IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and IBM ViOS
¡¤         Databases such as: Oracle (9i-11g), IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, MySQL
¡¤         Enterprise applications such as: Oracle BI, Oracle EBS, SAP, SAS, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft SharePoint
¡¤         Storage management platforms: IBM Tivoli and Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation
¡¤         Archive de-duplication: ProtecTIER

Support for multipathing with Symantec Veritas and operating system native multipathing drivers and for clusters with Symantec Veritas and operating system native clustering
Linear scaling
¡¤         Fully scalable in all key elements, including disk capacity, interfaces, cache, SSD caching (optional), CPU power, and internal bandwidth, enabling system performance to grow proportionally to capacity; XIV automatic load balancing immediately acts to incorporate the new modules in the system-wide data distribution scheme.
 
 
XIV (Model 2810/2812-A14)
XIV Gen3 (Model 2810/2812-114)
General properties
Disk drives (7,200 RPM)
SATA (1 TB or 2 TB)
SAS (2 TB or 3 TB)
Number of disk drives (min/max)
72/180
72/180
Performance features
Max number of CPUs
21 Intel Xeon Processor L5410
15 Intel Xeon Processor E5620
Max number of CPU cores
84
60 (hyperthreaded)
Max memory
120 GB (model with 8 GB of memory per module)
240 GB (model with 16 GB of memory per module)
360 GB (24 GB of memory per module)
Max cache-to-disk bandwidth
240 Gbps
480 Gbps
SSD caching
Not available
Up to 6 TB
Connectivity
Max number of ports¡ªFibre Channel*
24 (4 Gbps ports)
24 (8 Gbps ports)
Max number of ports¡ªiSCSI over Gigabit Ethernet
6
22
Physical features
Temperature
10 - 35ºC
10 - 35ºC
Altitude (max)
2134 m/7000 ft.
2134 m/7000 ft.
Humidity
25 - 80% non-condensing
25 - 80% non-condensing
Dimensions (height ¡Á width ¡Á depth)
199 ¡Á 60 ¡Á 107 cm
202 ¡Á 66 ¡Á 120 cm
Maximum weight
877 kg (1934 lbs)
1044.5 kg (2303.1 lbs)
Clearance front/rear
120/100 cm
120/120 cm
Redundant power feed
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¡Ì
Input voltage
180 - 264 V ac at 60 A or 30 A (¡À10%)
180 - 264 V ac at 60 A or 30 A (¡À10%)
Power usage
See power usage table below
See power usage table below
Host connectivity
Fibre Channel rates
4 Gbps
8 Gbps
iSCSI over 1 Gigabit Ethernet port
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Capacity on demand configurations
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Warranty
1 and 3 year Limited Warranty, Onsite service, Same Day 24¡Á7
1 and 3 year Limited Warranty, Onsite service, Same Day 24¡Á7
IBM XIV Storage System series¡ªSystem specifications
* FC ports are capable of auto-negotiation
 
Number of
modules
Number
of disks
Usable capacity
(TB, decimal)
Connectivity
FC ports
Connectivity
iSCI ports
 
XIV
1 TB/2 TB
SATA drives
XIV Gen3
2 TB/3 TB
SAS drives
XIV
(4 Gbps)
XIV Gen3
(8 Gbps)
XIV
(1 Gbps)
XIV Gen3
(1 Gbps)
6
72
27/55
55/84
8
8
0
6
9
108
43/87
88/132
16
16
4
14
10
120
50/102
102/154
16
16
4
14
11
132
54/111
111/168
20
20
6
18
12
144
61/125
125/190
20
20
6
18
13
156
66/134
134/203
24
24
6
22
14
168
73/149
149/225
24
24
6
22
15
180
79/161
161/243
24
24
6
22
 IBM XIV Storage series¡ªCapacity and connectivity
 
Number of
modules
Number
of disks
Number of CPUs
XIV memory (GB)
SSD (TB)
(optional)
 
XIV
XIV Gen3
XIV
(8G B/16 GB
per module)
XIV Gen3
(24 GB per
module)
XIV Gen3
6
72
9
6
48/96
144
2.4
9
108
15
9
72/144
216
3.6
10
120
16
10
80/160
240
4.0
11
132
17
11
88/176
264
4.4
12
144
18
12
96/192
288
4.8
13
156
19
13
104/208
312
5.2
14
168
20
14
112/224
336
5.6
15
180
21
15
120/240
360
6.0
 IBM XIV Storage System series¡ªNumber of CPUs and memory
 
Number of
modules
Number
of disks
XIV
(1 TB/2 TB SATA)
kVA
XIV Gen3
(2 TB/3 TB SAS)
kVA
XIV Gen3 with SSD
(2 TB/3 TB SAS)
kVA
6
72
3.4/3.1
2.9/2.8
2.9/2.9
9
108
5.0/4.5
4.2/4.1
4.3/4.2
10
120
5.5/4.9
4.6/4.6
4.7/4.7
11
132
6.1/5.4
5.0/5.1
5.1/5.2
12
144
6.7/5.8
5.4/5.6
5.5/5.7
13
156
7.2/6.2
5.8/6.0
5.9/6.1
14
168
7.8/6.6
6.3/6.5
6.5/6.7
15
180
8.4/7.1
6.7/7.0
6.9/7.2
 IBM XIV Storage System series¡ªPower usage (typical)