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IBM XIV Storage SystemseriesStorage reinvented: Powerful, virtualized, easy-to-manage enterprise storage for a dynamic world

Highlights● A revolutionary, proven high-end disk

storage system designed for data growth

and unmatched ease of use

● Consistent high performance without

hotspots, enabled through massive

parallelism and self-tuning

● Extra performance boost option through

up to 6 TB of management-free solid

state drive (SSD) caching

● High reliability and availability via full

redundancy, self-healing and unprece-

dented rebuild speed

● Low TCO enabled by high-density

storage, simplified planning, cost-free

features and low-touch management

● Virtualized storage, easy provisioning

and flexibility for optimized virtual envi-

ronments and cloud services

As the planet becomes smarter—more instrumented, interconnected andintelligent—your business is collecting a staggering amount of informa-tion. Your employees, partners and customers depend on that data—infact, business success today requires having the ability to store all thisinformation securely and reliably and access it speedily whenever needed,for enhanced decision-making. Having the right storage is key to an ITinfrastructure that enables growth. Your ultimate aim is to find a solutionthat meets high-end requirements for performance, reliability and flexi-bility while keeping storage costs and complexity to a minimum.

The IBM® XIV® Storage System series supports these contrasting goals. Proven, high-end disk storage used by thousands of enterpriseorganizations worldwide, XIV design is the result of listening to cus-tomers and addressing their storage challenges across the broadest spec-trum of business applications. The XIV series offers highly affordablestorage suitable for even the most demanding workloads, providing consistent tier 1 high performance and high reliability at tier 2 costs.Never compromising performance for reliability, the XIV grid architec-ture deploys massive parallelism to allocate system resources evenly at alltimes and scale seamlessly, without the need for complex, time-consumingtuning and configuration.

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A recognized leader in storage manageability, the XIV StorageSystem sets a new standard for ease of use by automating mosttasks and providing an exceptionally intuitive user interface. Italso offers “anytime, anywhere” monitoring via the IBM XIVMobile Dashboard, supporting the Apple iPhone® and AppleiPad®. The XIV architecture enables performance to growwith capacity and tightly meshes with cloud technologies foreven greater agility in meeting business needs.

Architecture matters

Traditional high-end storage systems typically have complex and

inflexible architectures that, even with incremental enhancements,

often compromise performance for reliability. In today’s world, an

architecture that enables performance with reliability is a necessity

for coping with nonlinear data growth. The XIV Storage System was

developed—and is ever- evolving—in direct response to customer

requirements for a simple-to-manage, flexible, powerful, highly

available system that meets all application needs and scales easily

over time.

The XIV Storage System has met with rapid market acceptanceand success, with thousands of installations in diverse industriesworldwide, including financial services, healthcare, energy, education and manufacturing. The XIV series supports a widerange of workload needs, from capacity-hungry to ultrahighperformance. It integrates easily with virtualization, email, database, analytics, data protection and other solutions fromleading providers, such as Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle, SAS,VMware and Symantec. The XIV series plays a key role inIBM’s end-to-end dynamic infrastructure solutions, integratingwith IBM ProtecTIER®, SONAS, SAN Volume Controller

(SVC), IBM Storwize® V7000 and IBM Tivoli® products.Customers also benefit from industry-leading IBM 24×7 globalsupport and service.

IBM offers several XIV storage system models, all based on thesame proven XIV architecture and simple, cost-effective pricingapproach that includes all functionality with the system softwareat no extra charge:

● IBM XIV Storage System Gen3: Features advanced hardware components for outstanding performance. ItsInfiniBand backplane offers massive throughput and lowlatency, while providing powerful CPUs, abundant RAM,eight Gbps Fibre Channel ports and an advanced mother-board that can address the highest demanding applicationworkload needs. For ultra-high performance needs, XIVGen3 optionally offers up to 6 TB of management-free SSDcaching, available to all system data and based on intelli-gently-utilized commodity solid state drives. Operating with advanced algorithms, XIV Gen3 components help meet requirements for extremely high performance, such as ever-changing virtualized and cloud environments, andcomplex application scenarios involving business intelligence,archiving, data warehousing, streaming backup, and largenumbers of mailboxes, as well as demanding ProtecTIERdeduplication installations and online transaction processing(OLTP). The Gen3 model is offered with 2 TB or 3 TBdrives.

● IBM XIV Storage System: Offers high performance at low overall cost for mixed workloads. The IBM XIV StorageSystem is suitable for most application needs, and with alower capacity entry point. It offers 1 TB drives for environ-ments in which performance takes priority over capacity and2 TB drives for higher capacity needs at even lower cost perterabyte.

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Consistent high performance withoutmanual tuningDriving the unique performance benefits of the XIV StorageSystem series is its massively parallel grid architecture, whichdelivers hotspot-free, consistent, predictable high performanceto all applications at all times—with no need for manual tuning.This same high level of service is maintained even during peakload periods, as well as during management or maintenanceactivities, and upon recovery from disk failures. The XIV seriesdesign provides performance optimization that enables ultimateuse of system resources, even workload distribution across all system drives and the freedom to use advanced functionswithout adversely affecting application performance.

Several architectural features contribute to the XIV system’sunique performance profile:

● Massive parallelism in a fully distributed architecture:The XIV Storage System uses a distributed architecture ofinterconnected modules, each with its own multi-core CPU,large cache, SSD caching (optional) and high-density diskdrives working in parallel to efficiently serve data to clientapplications. Every data volume is randomly spread across allmodules and disks in the system, and the aggregate power ofthe entire system is continually available to every application.The XIV system presents this collection of disks as a singlelarge, elastic data store on the storage network.

● Distributed data: The system stores data by breaking itdown into one megabyte chunks called partitions, each mirrored for redundancy to another module. The system distributes all the partitions automatically and uniformlyacross all the disks by means of a sophisticated pseudo-random distribution algorithm.

● Distributed cache: A flexible and powerful cache implemen-tation allows the XIV system to leverage large slots for readswhile managing a smaller slot size, resulting in a superiorcache hit ratio and, consequently, better performance.

● IBM XIV SSD Caching (optional): Many storage systemsexploit solid state drives (SSD) as a static tier for the mostcritical data only. XIV Gen3 uses SSD for caching across allvolumes for performance benefit to all applications withoutmanaging tiers. Using commodity SSD drives, XIV Gen3delivers a huge amount of caching memory—400 GB permodule, 6 TB per full system—to dynamically and adaptivelyread-cache the most frequently accessed data, boosting appli-cation performance by up to three times for active applicationworkloads1 at a fraction of typical SSD storage costs.

● Distributed bandwidth within modules: Aggressive pre-fetching is enabled by the large cache-to-disk bandwidthavailable within each module, together with the extremelylarge aggregate module interconnectivity bandwidth that isavailable on the XIV backplane.

● Smart scaling: Any increase in capacity—the addition of disk modules—is accompanied by a corresponding increase in processing power, cache, SSD caching (optional) and connectivity, maintaining the high performance level as thesystem scales.

● Load balancing: The system automatically distributes the application load across all system modules uniformly, put-ting the aggregate power of all modules at the service of allrequests concurrently. By doing so, it avoids many of the performance and reliability risks that can plague traditionalclustered controller designs.

● Hotspot-free: Changes to the application or its I/O patterndo not affect system performance; as workloads change andevolve, the system always remains hotspot-free.

● Configuration change: Each volume is evenly distributedacross all modules and disk drives within the system. The datadistribution is adjusted automatically whenever the number offunctional disks or modules changes, ensuring optimal datalayout and, consequently, optimal use of system resources atall times.

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● High bandwidth between and within modules:Communication between modules takes place over an inter-nal, redundant network equipped with massive bandwidth(InfiniBand for XIV Gen3 models; 1 Gbps Ethernet for XIVmodels) which supports rapid rebuilding when necessary.Each module has its own extremely large CPU-to-memoryand disk-to-memory bandwidth.

● Huge processing resources: Each module is equipped withits own multicore processor, putting dozens of CPU cores atthe disposal of the rack. The XIV Storage System uses thisvast processing power to execute advanced caching algorithmsthat support small cache slots, ensuring high performancethrough higher cache hit rates and use of advanced featuressuch as snapshots and mirroring.

● High performance even during disk rebuild and hardware failure: IBM XIV storage maintains consistenthigh performance at all times because it engages all the disks in the rebuild process simultaneously.

All-in-one view of XIV system metrics for in-depth performance analysis

FC

Host

Host

Host

iSCSI

Cache

Interface Disks

CPU

SSD(optional)

UPS UPS UPS

Data Module

Data Module

Data Module

Data Module

Inter-moduleconnectivity

15 data modules, each containing:12 high-density SAS disk drives24 GB memoryQuad-core Intel CPU2 X 20 Gbps InfiniBand HCA ports400 GB SSD (optional)

•••••

Host connectivity:24 X 8 Gbps FC ports22 x 1 Gbps iSCSI por ts

2 InfiniBand switches:Redundant inter-module connectivity600 Gbps total internal bandwidth

3 UPS modules:Stable power to all system componentsSafe shutdown upon power outage

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IBM XIV Storage System Gen3—components and connectivity

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High reliability and availabilityThe XIV series is designed to operate continuously over itsinstalled lifetime with no interruption to data access. Thehighly parallel grid architecture and distributed autonomicrebuild mechanism provide outstanding reliability, reducing fail-ures and unplanned downtime. The system provides built-insystem reliability at hardware and software levels, includingUPS protection for all disk, cache and electronics; redundantpower supply and fans; partition mirroring; and proactive errordetection and healing. Specific design features help furtherreduce risk:

● Active-active N+1 redundancy: All key system components—disks, modules, switches, host connectivity and UPS units—are fully redundant and protected throughactive-active N+1 redundancy. Each component is hot-swappable—replaceable without system shutdown.

● Exceptional rebuild speed: The XIV system typically completes a 3 TB disk rebuild in approximately 50 minutes (2 TB disks are rebuilt in approximately 33 minutes), withminimal impact on system service. Unlike other storage sys-tems, which may require many hours to rebuild a disk, theXIV system performs a rebuild using all disks in the systemsimultaneously and rebuilds only the written data, dramati-cally reducing rebuild time while minimizing the burden onany one disk.

● Proactive self-healing and system health management:The system monitors its components continuously, reactingto existing and potential issues by activating self-healing asneeded and returning to full redundancy rapidly and withouthuman intervention. As part of this proactive approach, thesystem:– Uses disk-resident diagnostics to predict potential disk

failure– Accesses all disk drives and all disk areas to assess health

status– Increases protection levels by retiring suspect disks before

they fail and rebuilding their data while a redundant version is still available

● Smart maintenance and hot upgrades: XIV storage sup-ports live maintenance, avoiding the need for planned down-time. Maintenance of disks and modules is performed whendata is at full redundancy, avoiding risk introduced by humanerror. The system also supports nondisruptive upgrades of thesystem software (microcode), allowing application services tocontinue uninterrupted.

● Reliable backup and recovery: XIV storage uses host-basedAPIs to integrate with backup and recovery software. It sup-ports Microsoft VSS technology for seamless backup andrecovery of Windows platforms. XIV snapshots used with theadvanced snapshot management capabilities of IBM TivoliStorage FlashCopy® Manager enable fast application-awarebackups and restores. XIV storage combines with TivoliStorage Manager to enable near-instant space-efficient snap-shots with no perceivable impact on application performance.

● Business continuity: The system is specifically engineeredfor business continuity. The XIV synchronous and asynchro-nous replication, clustering and restoration capabilities facili-tate the implementation of a highly resilient IT infrastructurethat can survive the failure of an entire data center withoutjeopardizing data access.

Revolutionary ease of managementThe IBM XIV Storage System provides fully virtualized storagedesigned to eliminate the need for performance tuning, plan-ning for capacity and performance growth and numerous otherstorage management activities. The highly intuitive XIV graph-ical user interface (GUI) and built-in management tools makeadministrative tasks easy and efficient, with little training orexpertise required, from provisioning volumes to monitoringmultiple systems. A powerful command line interface (CLI)supports complex scripting. The unified console enables one-stop centralized administration of multiple XIV systems. Its exceptional flexibility extends to mobile devices, giving usersthe flexibility of performance and capacity monitoring via theApple iPhone and Apple iPad.

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Intuitive 3D system screen for monitoring the health of storage components

Get ready, get set … CLOUD!

Supporting private and public cloud goals requires infrastructure

components that tightly and seamlessly integrate with virtual archi-

tectures and the performance-heavy applications that run on them.

XIV storage elicits the power of cloud computing with unique

characteristics:

● Elasticity: Agility in handling dynamic provisioning patterns

across mixed workloads and resource sharing across multiple

tenants● Ease of management: Minimized provisioning, with rich tracking

options for billing used capacity● Virtualization: Performance-enhancing affinity with VMware,

including vCloud, and other hypervisors● Superb TCO: Exceptionally low cost per TB enhanced by high-

density drives, optimal capacity utilization, power, cooling and

footprint savings, and space-saving snapshots

The XIV system enhances cloud deployment by offering superb

service levels at reduced costs.

Seamless linear scalabilityDesigned for easy growth, the XIV architecture scales in everyaspect, enabling the seamless addition of capacity. When a newmodule is added, the XIV redistribution mechanism integratesthe new disk space automatically, without administrator inter-vention. Most complex operations, including caching and snap-shot management, are contained within each module, allowingfor perfect linear scalability with near-zero performance impact.This elasticity is ideally suited for cloud environments, whichtypically need to meet highly dynamic storage demands.

● Capacity, cache, SSD caching (optional), processingpower, host interfaces and bandwidth: With these keycomponents being added as storage needs grow, the system isable to scale proportionally in capacity and resources, keepingperformance in pace with application load and total through-put as capacity scales.

● Internal switching capacity: Designed to support a fullyloaded rack, the internal switching capacity is unchangedregardless of system size, avoiding bottlenecks and ensuringthat throughput grows proportionally to capacity.

IBM XIV Mobile Dashboard app—ultra-flexible monitoring anytime, anywhere

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Comprehensive XIV view of capacity utilization across system pools

Low total cost of ownershipThe XIV Storage series is designed to be cost-efficient in allaspects:

● Simplicity helps save money: Administrators can provisionby simply sizing the desired volumes. LUN mapping is dragand drop. Snapshots and test environments are created in sec-onds. Data migration is dramatically simple and fast; remotemirroring is easy and supported between XIV Gen3 and theXIV Storage System, offering flexibility for meeting data pro-tection goals. By reducing complexity, the system minimizesthe IT resources required to manage storage, freeing individ-uals for other tasks.

● High reliability helps avoid downtime costs: In traditionalsystems, most storage outages are caused by human error,exacerbated by the system’s complexity. The XIV designreduces the risk of outages and human error.

● All-included functions at no extra charge: All XIV func-tionality is provided with the system software, at no extracharge, and is available for use at any time.

● More capacity per floor tile helps reduce costs: The sys-tem’s use of very high-density drives maximizes physical spaceper floor tile, offering maximum capacities of 243 usable TB(3 TB disk drive configurations). High-density storage cansignificantly reduce power, space and cooling costs, and offermuch lower cost per terabyte relative to comparable systems.

Advanced features at no extra chargeThe XIV Storage System empowers users with enterprise-classfunctions included with the system software:

● Snapshots: Large numbers of space-efficient snapshots—create, restore, writable and “snap on snap”—are supportedwith virtually no impact on performance. Multiple point-in-time copies of application data support development, prototyping, back up or other activities without the capacitypenalty of full volume copies or performance penalty of copy-on-write.

● Replication and disaster recovery: The system providesease of configuration and operation of synchronous and asyn-chronous mirroring and other business continuity capabilities.It allows mirroring of volumes to different systems, includingbetween XIV models of different generations.

● Consistency groups: Volumes are logically grouped to facili-tate application-centric operations including snapshots andmirroring of all volumes in a consistency group.

● Thin provisioning: The system presents a fully sized LUNto the hosts while allocating only the necessary capacity.Thin-provisioned capacity can be managed via storage pools,minimizing the risk of running out of physical space.

● Data migration: Rapid, automated migration of data fromany non-XIV system to the XIV system is supported. Themigration is performed in the background while applicationscontinue to operate.

● Centralized administration: Multiple XIV systems can bemanaged simply and centrally.

● Reporting: The system can capture and store one year ofperformance and statistics data, specified by date and time, forvisualization and reporting, facilitating troubleshooting andperformance analysis.

● Hot upgrades: Hardware replacements and softwareupgrades can take place nondisruptively.

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Complete, intuitive XIV display of mirroring status

● Host attachment kits (HAKs): XIV HAKs provide a platform-native, multipath solution that makes connectivitysetup easy, ensures best-practices configuration and provideshost-storage troubleshooting and support tools. HAKs areprovided for IBM AIX®, Microsoft Windows, Oracle Solaris,HP-UX, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red HatEnterprise Linux.

● Quality of service (QoS): The system allows users to controlthe priority of performance given to applications connectedto the system to ensure resource allocations that address particular business needs.

● IPv6: IBM currently plans to support the IPv6 and IPsec protocols (and obtain USGv6 certification) in future codereleases for the XIV Storage System with such supportplanned by the end of the first half of 2012. Support of IPv6 and IPsec is intended to allow customers to address government requirements and enterprise needs and to enjoy the benefits of the standard’s built-in security andmobility options.2

● Security: XIV storage integrates with Active Directory andLDAP servers for centralized management of user identityand privileges. It supports role-based access management as well as auditing by capturing and transmitting events tomonitoring systems such as IBM Systems Director andIBM Tivoli Productivity Suite. It uses SSL for network channel encryption.

● Automatic event notification: The system sends alerts ofimminent hardware failure via email, SMS or SNMP trapswith filtering and distribution by severity or type.

Seamless integration with host platformsThe XIV Storage System offers seamless and cost-efficient inte-gration with leading operating systems and host platforms—atno extra charge:

● Operating systems: The XIV system supports: VMwareESX/ESXi, Microsoft Windows (including Hyper-V),IBM AIX, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Oracle Solaris,HP-UX and IBM iSeries® (via ViOS).

● IBM platforms: The system’s multi-platform supportincludes: Linux, ViOS for IBM Power Systems™(IBM System i® and IBM System p®), IBM PowerVM®,IBM i/OS V6R1, IBM AIX (and AIX MPIO driver) andIBM PowerHA® (HACMP™).

● Integrated storage solutions: The XIV system supportssolutions delivering network attached storage (NAS) capabili-ties with N-series gateway or SONAS, highly scalable andreliable storage across multiple systems, including heteroge-neous, with SVC, and deduplication archiving withIBM ProtecTIER.

● Concurrent multipath software support: The XIV archi-tecture provides optimized native concurrent multipath support as a function of its high bandwidth and resilient host connectivity. On the host side, XIV storage supportsnative OS multipathing solutions, as well as Symantec VeritasStorage Foundation dynamic multipathing (DMP).

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Enterprise-proven application solutionsThe XIV series supports a broad range of easily implemented,cost-efficient, enterprise-proven solutions. Working in collabo-ration with Microsoft, VMware, SAP, Oracle, SAS, Symantecand others, IBM can offer outstanding customer value and thehighest levels of partner support. Easy connectivity is providedthrough XIV Host Attachment Kits.

● Robust virtualization and cloud support: Applying massiveparallelism to diverse I/O streams, the XIV system has a special affinity for virtualized server and cloud environments,with their concurrent, ever-changing workloads. The XIVsystem supports virtualization and cloud environments byVMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and IBM PowerVM,as well as Xen, IBM z/VM® and ViOS for IBM Power sys-tems (System i and System p), and applications supported by those environments. As part of the IBM private cloudoffering, the XIV system contributes high performance andcost-effective storage capabilities to Microsoft Hyper-V cloudsolutions for SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint and customthird party applications.

● Deeply integrated VMware solutions: Includes self-serviceprovisioning with VMware vCenter; host performance withvStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI); automated stor-age failover with Site Recovery Manager (SRM); backup andhardware snapshots using Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager,and visibility and automation through IBM Storage Providerfor VMware VASA (vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness(VASA); and low-risk vCloud deployments.

● Business applications: The XIV system delivers consistenthigh performance and exceptionally simple management toleading email, database, ERP and other enterprise applica-tions, such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Oracle,IBM DB2®, SAP and SAS.

● Extended storage management: The XIV system integrateswith leading products to enable storage management at theglobal system resources level. It supports centralized, opti-mized and automated XIV management and SAN connectiv-ity with IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC);monitoring of infrastructure and applications using MicrosoftSystem Center Operations Manager (SCOM); controlledstorage provisioning by non-storage administrators with theIBM Storage Management Console for VMware vCenter(VC plug-in) and SCOM. It also supports managing storage,servers and applications in a heterogeneous environment withSymantec Veritas Storage Foundation. The XIV system sup-ports SMI-S compliant management systems such asMicrosoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

● Data protection and business continuity: XIV storage can provide automated application-aware, near-instant snap-shots with Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (FCM) andintegrates with end-to-end backup solutions such as TivoliStorage Manager, Symantec NetBackup and others. XIV supports clustering with Microsoft Clustering (MSCS),PowerHA on AIX and other native OS solutions includingVeritas Cluster Server (VCS). Additionally, XIV storage sup-ports automated storage failover with VMware Site RecoveryManager (SRM), Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) andVeritas Cluster Server (VCS). It supports near-instant, application-aware hardware snapshots on any Windows server using the XIV provider for Windows Volume ShadowCopy Service (VSS).

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IBM XIV Storage System series—System specifications

XIV (Model 2810/2812-A14) XIV Gen3 (Model 2810/2812-114)

General properties

Disk drives (7,200 RPM)

Number of disk drives

(min/max)

SATA (1 TB or 2 TB)

72/180

SAS (2 TB or 3 TB)

72/180

Performance features

Max number of CPUs 21 Intel Xeon Processor L5410 15 Intel Xeon Processor E5620

Max number of CPU cores

Max memory

Max cache-to-disk bandwidth

SSD caching

84

120 GB (model with 8 GB of memory per module)

240 GB (model with 16 GB of memory per module)

240 Gbps

Not available

60 (hyperthreaded)

360 GB (24 GB of memory per module)

480 Gbps

Up to 6 TB

Connectivity

Max number of ports—Fibre

Channel*

24 (4 Gbps ports) 24 (8 Gbps ports)

Max number of ports—iSCSI

over Gigabit Ethernet

6 22

Physical features

Temperature

Altitude (max)

Humidity

Dimensions (height × width ×depth)

Maximum weight

10 - 35ºC

2134 m/7000 ft.

25 - 80% non-condensing

199 × 60 × 107 cm

877 kg (1934 lbs)

10 - 35ºC

2134 m/7000 ft.

25 - 80% non-condensing

202 × 66 × 120 cm

1044.5 kg (2303.1 lbs)

Clearance front/rear

Redundant power feed

Input voltage

Power usage

120/100 cm

√

180 - 264 V ac at 60 A or 30 A (±10%)

See power usage table below

120/120 cm

√

180 - 264 V ac at 60 A or 30 A (±10%)

See power usage table below

Host connectivity

Fibre Channel rates

iSCSI over 1 Gigabit

Ethernet port

Capacity on demand

configurations

4 Gbps

√

√

8 Gbps

√

√

Warranty 1 and 3 year Limited Warranty, Onsite service,

Same Day 24×7

1 and 3 year Limited Warranty, Onsite service,

Same Day 24×7

* FC ports are capable of auto-negotiation

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IBM XIV Storage series—Capacity and connectivity

Number of modules Number of disks Usable capacity (TB, decimal) Connectivity FC ports Connectivity iSCI ports

XIV XIV Gen3 XIV (4 Gbps) XIV Gen3 XIV (1 Gbps) XIV Gen3

1 TB/2 TB SATA 2 TB/3 TB SAS (8 Gbps) (1 Gbps)

drives drives

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 System series—Number of CPUs and memory

Number of modules Number of disks Number of CPUs XIV memory (GB) SSD(TB) (optional)

XIV XIV Gen3 XIV XIV Gen3 XIV Gen3

(8G B/16 GB per module) (24 GB per module)

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—Power usage (typical)

Number of modules Number of disks XIV XIV Gen3 XIV Gen3 with SSD (1 TB/2 TB SATA) (2 TB/3 TB SAS) (2 TB/3 TB SAS)

kVA kVA 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

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For more informationTo learn more about the IBM XIV Storage System series, con-tact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit:ibm.com/storage/disk/xiv

Additional online resources:● SPC-2/E Benchmark results

● Redbook: XIV Storage System: Host Attachment and

Interoperability

● Redbook: IBM XIV Storage System with the Virtual I/O Server

and IBM i

● IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC)

● Search for XIV on IBM Techdocs library

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