IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 Model 114 for machine types 2810 and 2812 is an innovative, high-end, open disk system designed to help reduce costs, simplify management and speed access to important data. The IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 represents the third generation of the IBM XIV series of storage systems and offers:
- Up to 180 2 TB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives
- Up to 161 TB of useable capacity in a single frame
- Up to 24 ports of 8Gb Fibre Channel host connectivity
- Up to 22 ports of 1Gb iSCSI host connectivity
- Up to 360 GB of cache
- High-performance InfiniBand interconnectivity
- Multi-core processors
- Three uninterruptible power supplies
IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 will be upgradeable to an SSD Caching option which is planned for the first half of 2012. The SSD caching option is being designed to provide up to 7.5 TB of fast read cache to support and up to a 90% reduction in I/O latency for random read workloads.
IBM 2812 XIV Storage System Gen3 Model 114 together with IBM 2810 XIV Storage System Gen3 Model 114 enable a flexible warranty choice for XIV Gen3 storage. 2812 Model 114 supports a 3-year warranty to complement the 1-year warranty offered by the functionally equivalent, 2810 Model 114.
IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 models are part of a series of IBM XIV Storage Systems.
The IBM XIV Storage System series is an innovative, high-end, open disk system series designed to support business requirements for a highly available information infrastructure. The XIV architecture is a grid of standard Intel™ and Linux™ components connected in any-to-any topology. This architecture is designed to support enterprise-class reliability, performance, and scalability.
IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 carries on the XIV tradition of providing consistent, high performance, and high reliability with a low total cost of ownership. Several design factors contribute to this achievement:
- Self-tuning and self-healing: XIV’s unique fully virtualized architecture supports high system performance without manual tuning. The system can self-optimize automatically upon changes in the hardware configuration, such as the addition of modules or replacement of modules upon failure.
- Ease of management: Ease of management that goes below the surface, with a virtualized architecture, highly intuitive GUI, and clever implementation of role-based management all add up to create a streamlined user experience, with less administration.
- High performance: A high-speed InfiniBand internal interconnect, load balancing, use of all system resources, innovative caching, and massive CPU power combine to support high performance.
- Enhanced connectivity: The IBM XIV Gen3 offers improved host connectivity with up to twenty-four 8Gbps Fibre Channel ports and up to twenty-two 1Gbps iSCSI host connectivity ports.
- Reliability: High reliability and availability through hardware redundancy, rapid rebuild times, automatic self-healing, and preemptive, proactive support services.
- Improved capacity usage: Efficient capacity utilization functionality, including space-efficient snapshots and advanced thin provisioning, helps support savings in capacity and cost, and less administration requirements.
- High-density storage: Enterprise-class, high density SAS disk drives create increased physical space efficiencies. Using 2 TB drives. XIV Gen3 provides 161 TB usable capacity in a single rack. The ability to store so much data in one system using fewer, large capacity drives, as well as the use of multi-core processors, can help to reduce power and cooling expenses for a more energy-efficient solution.
- Innovative caching: Up to 360 GB of total system cache with flexible and powerful cache implementation allows the XIV system to leverage large slots for reads while enabling it to manage a smaller slot size for improved cache management and better performance.IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 will be upgradeable to an SSD Caching option which is planned for the first half of 2012. The SSD caching option is being designed to provide up to 7.5 TB of fast read cache to support and up to a 90% reduction in I/O latency for random read workloads.
- Flexible warranty: Configurations are available in both one- and three-year warranty options.
- Capacity on Demand (CoD) configurations: CoD configurations are available to provide a method to quickly provision new physical storage and can be ordered at any of the valid partially populated capacities. Up to three CoD modules can be over-provisioned. Contact your sales representative for further details on CoD conditions.
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