The document summarizes the IBM XIV Storage System, which provides high-performance, highly reliable enterprise storage. Key points: - It uses a distributed, massively parallel architecture to deliver consistent, predictable performance without hotspots or need for manual tuning. - Features include redundant components, quick rebuilds, self-healing capabilities, and support for non-disruptive maintenance and upgrades. - It offers simple, intuitive management through a graphical interface and mobile app, eliminating most storage administration tasks. - The system scales linearly through the addition of modules, maintaining performance as capacity increases for both traditional and cloud environments.

1. IBM Systems and Technology Product Datasheet
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IBM XIV Storage System
series
Storage reinvented: Powerful, virtualized, easy-to-
manage enterprise storage for a dynamic world
As the planet becomes smarter—more instrumented, interconnected and
Highlights intelligent—your business is collecting a staggering amount of informa-
tion. Your employees, partners and customers depend on that data—in
● A revolutionary, proven high-end disk fact, business success today requires having the ability to store all this
storage system designed for data growth
and unmatched ease of use information securely and reliably and access it speedily whenever needed,
for enhanced decision-making. Having the right storage is key to an IT
● Consistent high performance without
infrastructure that enables growth. Your ultimate aim is to find a solution
hotspots, enabled through massive
parallelism and self-tuning that meets high-end requirements for performance, reliability and flexi-
bility while keeping storage costs and complexity to a minimum.
● Extra performance boost option through
up to 6 TB of management-free solid
state drive (SSD) caching The IBM® XIV® Storage System series supports these contrasting
goals. Proven, high-end disk storage used by thousands of enterprise
● High reliability and availability via full
redundancy, self-healing and unprece- organizations worldwide, XIV design is the result of listening to cus-
dented rebuild speed tomers and addressing their storage challenges across the broadest spec-
trum of business applications. The XIV series offers highly affordable
● Low TCO enabled by high-density
storage, simplified planning, cost-free storage suitable for even the most demanding workloads, providing
features and low-touch management consistent tier 1 high performance and high reliability at tier 2 costs.
● Virtualized storage, easy provisioning
Never compromising performance for reliability, the XIV grid architec-
and flexibility for optimized virtual envi- ture deploys massive parallelism to allocate system resources evenly at all
ronments and cloud services times and scale seamlessly, without the need for complex, time-consuming
tuning and configuration.

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A recognized leader in storage manageability, the XIV Storage (SVC), IBM Storwize® V7000 and IBM Tivoli® products.
System sets a new standard for ease of use by automating most Customers also benefit from industry-leading IBM 24×7 global
tasks and providing an exceptionally intuitive user interface. It support and service.
also offers “anytime, anywhere” monitoring via the IBM XIV
Mobile Dashboard, supporting the Apple iPhone® and Apple IBM offers several XIV storage system models, all based on the
iPad®. The XIV architecture enables performance to grow same proven XIV architecture and simple, cost-effective pricing
with capacity and tightly meshes with cloud technologies for approach that includes all functionality with the system software
even greater agility in meeting business needs. at no extra charge:
● IBM XIV Storage System Gen3: Features advanced
hardware components for outstanding performance. Its
Architecture matters
InfiniBand backplane offers massive throughput and low
Traditional high-end storage systems typically have complex and latency, while providing powerful CPUs, abundant RAM,
inflexible architectures that, even with incremental enhancements, eight Gbps Fibre Channel ports and an advanced mother-
often compromise performance for reliability. In today’s world, an board that can address the highest demanding application
architecture that enables performance with reliability is a necessity
workload needs. For ultra-high performance needs, XIV
for coping with nonlinear data growth. The XIV Storage System was
Gen3 optionally offers up to 6 TB of management-free SSD
developed—and is ever- evolving—in direct response to customer
caching, available to all system data and based on intelli-
requirements for a simple-to-manage, flexible, powerful, highly
gently-utilized commodity solid state drives. Operating
available system that meets all application needs and scales easily
over time. with advanced algorithms, XIV Gen3 components help
meet requirements for extremely high performance, such
as ever-changing virtualized and cloud environments, and
complex application scenarios involving business intelligence,
The XIV Storage System has met with rapid market acceptance archiving, data warehousing, streaming backup, and large
and success, with thousands of installations in diverse industries numbers of mailboxes, as well as demanding ProtecTIER
worldwide, including financial services, healthcare, energy, deduplication installations and online transaction processing
education and manufacturing. The XIV series supports a wide (OLTP). The Gen3 model is offered with 2 TB or 3 TB
range of workload needs, from capacity-hungry to ultrahigh drives.
performance. It integrates easily with virtualization, email, ● IBM XIV Storage System: Offers high performance at
database, analytics, data protection and other solutions from low overall cost for mixed workloads. The IBM XIV Storage
leading providers, such as Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle, SAS, System is suitable for most application needs, and with a
VMware and Symantec. The XIV series plays a key role in lower capacity entry point. It offers 1 TB drives for environ-
IBM’s end-to-end dynamic infrastructure solutions, integrating ments in which performance takes priority over capacity and
with IBM ProtecTIER®, SONAS, SAN Volume Controller 2 TB drives for higher capacity needs at even lower cost per
terabyte.
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Consistent high performance without ● IBM XIV SSD Caching (optional): Many storage systems
manual tuning exploit solid state drives (SSD) as a static tier for the most
Driving the unique performance benefits of the XIV Storage critical data only. XIV Gen3 uses SSD for caching across all
System series is its massively parallel grid architecture, which volumes for performance benefit to all applications without
delivers hotspot-free, consistent, predictable high performance managing tiers. Using commodity SSD drives, XIV Gen3
to all applications at all times—with no need for manual tuning. delivers a huge amount of caching memory—400 GB per
This same high level of service is maintained even during peak module, 6 TB per full system—to dynamically and adaptively
load periods, as well as during management or maintenance read-cache the most frequently accessed data, boosting appli-
activities, and upon recovery from disk failures. The XIV series cation performance by up to three times for active application
design provides performance optimization that enables ultimate workloads1 at a fraction of typical SSD storage costs.
use of system resources, even workload distribution across
● Distributed bandwidth within modules: Aggressive
all system drives and the freedom to use advanced functions pre-fetching is enabled by the large cache-to-disk bandwidth
without adversely affecting application performance. available within each module, together with the extremely
large aggregate module interconnectivity bandwidth that is
Several architectural features contribute to the XIV system’s available on the XIV backplane.
unique performance profile:
● Smart scaling: Any increase in capacity—the addition of
disk modules—is accompanied by a corresponding increase
● Massive parallelism in a fully distributed architecture: in processing power, cache, SSD caching (optional) and
The XIV Storage System uses a distributed architecture of connectivity, maintaining the high performance level as the
interconnected modules, each with its own multi-core CPU, system scales.
large cache, SSD caching (optional) and high-density disk
● Load balancing: The system automatically distributes
drives working in parallel to efficiently serve data to client the application load across all system modules uniformly, put-
applications. Every data volume is randomly spread across all ting the aggregate power of all modules at the service of all
modules and disks in the system, and the aggregate power of requests concurrently. By doing so, it avoids many of the
the entire system is continually available to every application. performance and reliability risks that can plague traditional
The XIV system presents this collection of disks as a single clustered controller designs.
large, elastic data store on the storage network.
● Hotspot-free: Changes to the application or its I/O pattern
● Distributed data: The system stores data by breaking it do not affect system performance; as workloads change and
down into one megabyte chunks called partitions, each evolve, the system always remains hotspot-free.
mirrored for redundancy to another module. The system
● Configuration change: Each volume is evenly distributed
distributes all the partitions automatically and uniformly across all modules and disk drives within the system. The data
across all the disks by means of a sophisticated pseudo- distribution is adjusted automatically whenever the number of
random distribution algorithm. functional disks or modules changes, ensuring optimal data
● Distributed cache: A flexible and powerful cache implemen- layout and, consequently, optimal use of system resources at
tation allows the XIV system to leverage large slots for reads all times.
while managing a smaller slot size, resulting in a superior
cache hit ratio and, consequently, better performance.
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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 XIV
models) which supports rapid rebuilding when necessary.
Each module has its own extremely large CPU-to-memory
and disk-to-memory bandwidth.
● Huge processing resources: Each module is equipped with
its own multicore processor, putting dozens of CPU cores at
the disposal of the rack. The XIV Storage System uses this
vast processing power to execute advanced caching algorithms
that support small cache slots, ensuring high performance
through higher cache hit rates and use of advanced features
such as snapshots and mirroring.
● High performance even during disk rebuild and
hardware failure: IBM XIV storage maintains consistent
high 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
Data Module
FC
15 data modules, each containing:
Host Data Module • 12 high-density SAS disk drives
• 24 GB memory
Host • Quad-core Intel CPU
• 2 X 20 Gbps InfiniBand HCA ports
Inter-module • 400 GB SSD (optional)
iSCSI Data Module connectivity
Host connectivity:
• 24 X 8 Gbps FC ports
Host • 22 x 1 Gbps iSCSI por ts
2 InfiniBand switches:
• Redundant inter-module connectivity
Data Module • 600 Gbps total internal bandwidth
3 UPS modules:
• Stable power to all system components
• Safe shutdown upon power outage
Cache CPU
UPS UPS UPS
Interface Disks SSD
(optional)
IBM XIV Storage System Gen3—components and connectivity
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High reliability and availability ● Smart maintenance and hot upgrades: XIV storage sup-
The XIV series is designed to operate continuously over its ports live maintenance, avoiding the need for planned down-
installed lifetime with no interruption to data access. The time. Maintenance of disks and modules is performed when
highly parallel grid architecture and distributed autonomic data is at full redundancy, avoiding risk introduced by human
rebuild mechanism provide outstanding reliability, reducing fail- error. The system also supports nondisruptive upgrades of the
ures and unplanned downtime. The system provides built-in system software (microcode), allowing application services to
system reliability at hardware and software levels, including continue uninterrupted.
UPS protection for all disk, cache and electronics; redundant ● Reliable backup and recovery: XIV storage uses host-based
power supply and fans; partition mirroring; and proactive error APIs to integrate with backup and recovery software. It sup-
detection and healing. Specific design features help further ports Microsoft VSS technology for seamless backup and
reduce risk: recovery of Windows platforms. XIV snapshots used with the
advanced snapshot management capabilities of IBM Tivoli
● Active-active N+1 redundancy: All key system Storage FlashCopy® Manager enable fast application-aware
components—disks, modules, switches, host connectivity backups and restores. XIV storage combines with Tivoli
and UPS units—are fully redundant and protected through Storage Manager to enable near-instant space-efficient snap-
active-active N+1 redundancy. Each component is hot- shots with no perceivable impact on application performance.
swappable—replaceable without system shutdown. ● Business continuity: The system is specifically engineered
● Exceptional rebuild speed: The XIV system typically for business continuity. The XIV synchronous and asynchro-
completes a 3 TB disk rebuild in approximately 50 minutes nous replication, clustering and restoration capabilities facili-
(2 TB disks are rebuilt in approximately 33 minutes), with tate the implementation of a highly resilient IT infrastructure
minimal impact on system service. Unlike other storage sys- that can survive the failure of an entire data center without
tems, which may require many hours to rebuild a disk, the jeopardizing data access.
XIV system performs a rebuild using all disks in the system
simultaneously and rebuilds only the written data, dramati- Revolutionary ease of management
cally reducing rebuild time while minimizing the burden on The IBM XIV Storage System provides fully virtualized storage
any one disk. designed to eliminate the need for performance tuning, plan-
● Proactive self-healing and system health management: ning for capacity and performance growth and numerous other
The system monitors its components continuously, reacting storage management activities. The highly intuitive XIV graph-
to existing and potential issues by activating self-healing as ical user interface (GUI) and built-in management tools make
needed and returning to full redundancy rapidly and without administrative tasks easy and efficient, with little training or
human intervention. As part of this proactive approach, the expertise required, from provisioning volumes to monitoring
system: multiple systems. A powerful command line interface (CLI)
– Uses disk-resident diagnostics to predict potential disk supports complex scripting. The unified console enables
failure one-stop centralized administration of multiple XIV systems.
– Accesses all disk drives and all disk areas to assess health Its exceptional flexibility extends to mobile devices, giving users
status the flexibility of performance and capacity monitoring via the
– Increases protection levels by retiring suspect disks before Apple iPhone and Apple iPad.
they fail and rebuilding their data while a redundant
version is still available
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Intuitive 3D system screen for monitoring the health of storage components
IBM XIV Mobile Dashboard app—ultra-flexible monitoring anytime, anywhere
Get ready, get set … CLOUD!
Supporting private and public cloud goals requires infrastructure
Seamless linear scalability
components that tightly and seamlessly integrate with virtual archi-
Designed for easy growth, the XIV architecture scales in every
tectures and the performance-heavy applications that run on them.
XIV storage elicits the power of cloud computing with unique
aspect, enabling the seamless addition of capacity. When a new
characteristics: module is added, the XIV redistribution mechanism integrates
the new disk space automatically, without administrator inter-
● Elasticity: Agility in handling dynamic provisioning patterns vention. Most complex operations, including caching and snap-
across mixed workloads and resource sharing across multiple shot management, are contained within each module, allowing
tenants for perfect linear scalability with near-zero performance impact.
●
Ease of management: Minimized provisioning, with rich tracking
This elasticity is ideally suited for cloud environments, which
options for billing used capacity
typically need to meet highly dynamic storage demands.
● Virtualization: Performance-enhancing affinity with VMware,
including vCloud, and other hypervisors
● Superb TCO: Exceptionally low cost per TB enhanced by high-
● Capacity, cache, SSD caching (optional), processing
density drives, optimal capacity utilization, power, cooling and power, host interfaces and bandwidth: With these key
footprint savings, and space-saving snapshots components being added as storage needs grow, the system is
able to scale proportionally in capacity and resources, keeping
The XIV system enhances cloud deployment by offering superb performance in pace with application load and total through-
service levels at reduced costs. put as capacity scales.
● Internal switching capacity: Designed to support a fully
loaded rack, the internal switching capacity is unchanged
regardless of system size, avoiding bottlenecks and ensuring
that throughput grows proportionally to capacity.
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● More capacity per floor tile helps reduce costs: The sys-
tem’s use of very high-density drives maximizes physical space
per floor tile, offering maximum capacities of 243 usable TB
(3 TB disk drive configurations). High-density storage can
significantly reduce power, space and cooling costs, and offer
much lower cost per terabyte relative to comparable systems.
Advanced features at no extra charge
The XIV Storage System empowers users with enterprise-class
functions included with the system software:
● Snapshots: Large numbers of space-efficient snapshots—
create, restore, writable and “snap on snap”—are supported
with virtually no impact on performance. Multiple point-
in-time copies of application data support development,
prototyping, back up or other activities without the capacity
penalty of full volume copies or performance penalty of
copy-on-write.
Comprehensive XIV view of capacity utilization across system pools ● Replication and disaster recovery: The system provides
ease of configuration and operation of synchronous and asyn-
chronous mirroring and other business continuity capabilities.
Low total cost of ownership
It allows mirroring of volumes to different systems, including
The XIV Storage series is designed to be cost-efficient in all
between XIV models of different generations.
aspects:
● Consistency groups: Volumes are logically grouped to facili-
tate application-centric operations including snapshots and
● Simplicity helps save money: Administrators can provision
mirroring of all volumes in a consistency group.
by simply sizing the desired volumes. LUN mapping is drag
● Thin provisioning: The system presents a fully sized LUN
and drop. Snapshots and test environments are created in sec-
to the hosts while allocating only the necessary capacity.
onds. Data migration is dramatically simple and fast; remote
Thin-provisioned capacity can be managed via storage pools,
mirroring is easy and supported between XIV Gen3 and the
minimizing the risk of running out of physical space.
XIV Storage System, offering flexibility for meeting data pro-
● Data migration: Rapid, automated migration of data from
tection goals. By reducing complexity, the system minimizes
any non-XIV system to the XIV system is supported. The
the IT resources required to manage storage, freeing individ-
migration is performed in the background while applications
uals for other tasks.
continue to operate.
● High reliability helps avoid downtime costs: In traditional
● Centralized administration: Multiple XIV systems can be
systems, most storage outages are caused by human error,
managed simply and centrally.
exacerbated by the system’s complexity. The XIV design
● Reporting: The system can capture and store one year of
reduces the risk of outages and human error.
performance and statistics data, specified by date and time, for
● All-included functions at no extra charge: All XIV func-
visualization and reporting, facilitating troubleshooting and
tionality is provided with the system software, at no extra
performance analysis.
charge, and is available for use at any time.
● Hot upgrades: Hardware replacements and software
upgrades can take place nondisruptively.
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● Host attachment kits (HAKs): XIV HAKs provide a
platform-native, multipath solution that makes connectivity
setup easy, ensures best-practices configuration and provides
host-storage troubleshooting and support tools. HAKs are
provided for IBM AIX®, Microsoft Windows, Oracle Solaris,
HP-UX, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
● Quality of service (QoS): The system allows users to control
the priority of performance given to applications connected
to 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 code
releases for the XIV Storage System with such support
planned 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 and
mobility options.2 Complete, intuitive XIV display of mirroring status
● Security: XIV storage integrates with Active Directory and
LDAP servers for centralized management of user identity ● IBM platforms: The system’s multi-platform support
and privileges. It supports role-based access management
includes: Linux, ViOS for IBM Power Systems™
as well as auditing by capturing and transmitting events to
(IBM System i® and IBM System p®), IBM PowerVM®,
monitoring systems such as IBM Systems Director and
IBM i/OS V6R1, IBM AIX (and AIX MPIO driver) and
IBM Tivoli Productivity Suite. It uses SSL for network
IBM PowerHA® (HACMP™).
channel encryption. ● Integrated storage solutions: The XIV system supports
● Automatic event notification: The system sends alerts of
solutions delivering network attached storage (NAS) capabili-
imminent hardware failure via email, SMS or SNMP traps
ties with N-series gateway or SONAS, highly scalable and
with filtering and distribution by severity or type.
reliable storage across multiple systems, including heteroge-
neous, with SVC, and deduplication archiving with
Seamless integration with host platforms IBM ProtecTIER.
The XIV Storage System offers seamless and cost-efficient inte- ● Concurrent multipath software support: The XIV archi-
gration with leading operating systems and host platforms—at
tecture provides optimized native concurrent multipath
no extra charge:
support as a function of its high bandwidth and resilient
host connectivity. On the host side, XIV storage supports
● Operating systems: The XIV system supports: VMware
native OS multipathing solutions, as well as Symantec Veritas
ESX/ESXi, Microsoft Windows (including Hyper-V),
Storage Foundation dynamic multipathing (DMP).
IBM AIX, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Oracle Solaris,
HP-UX and IBM iSeries® (via ViOS).
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Enterprise-proven application solutions ● Business applications: The XIV system delivers consistent
The XIV series supports a broad range of easily implemented, high performance and exceptionally simple management to
cost-efficient, enterprise-proven solutions. Working in collabo- leading email, database, ERP and other enterprise applica-
ration with Microsoft, VMware, SAP, Oracle, SAS, Symantec tions, such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Oracle,
and others, IBM can offer outstanding customer value and the IBM DB2®, SAP and SAS.
highest levels of partner support. Easy connectivity is provided ● Extended storage management: The XIV system integrates
through XIV Host Attachment Kits. with leading products to enable storage management at the
global system resources level. It supports centralized, opti-
● Robust virtualization and cloud support: Applying massive mized and automated XIV management and SAN connectiv-
parallelism to diverse I/O streams, the XIV system has a ity with IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC);
special affinity for virtualized server and cloud environments, monitoring of infrastructure and applications using Microsoft
with their concurrent, ever-changing workloads. The XIV System Center Operations Manager (SCOM); controlled
system supports virtualization and cloud environments by storage provisioning by non-storage administrators with the
VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and IBM PowerVM, IBM Storage Management Console for VMware vCenter
as well as Xen, IBM z/VM® and ViOS for IBM Power sys- (VC plug-in) and SCOM. It also supports managing storage,
tems (System i and System p), and applications supported servers and applications in a heterogeneous environment with
by those environments. As part of the IBM private cloud Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation. The XIV system sup-
offering, the XIV system contributes high performance and ports SMI-S compliant management systems such as
cost-effective storage capabilities to Microsoft Hyper-V cloud Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
solutions for SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint and custom ● Data protection and business continuity: XIV storage
third party applications. can provide automated application-aware, near-instant snap-
● Deeply integrated VMware solutions: Includes self-service shots with Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (FCM) and
provisioning with VMware vCenter; host performance with integrates with end-to-end backup solutions such as Tivoli
vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI); automated stor- Storage Manager, Symantec NetBackup and others. XIV
age failover with Site Recovery Manager (SRM); backup and supports clustering with Microsoft Clustering (MSCS),
hardware snapshots using Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager, PowerHA on AIX and other native OS solutions including
and visibility and automation through IBM Storage Provider Veritas Cluster Server (VCS). Additionally, XIV storage sup-
for VMware VASA (vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness ports automated storage failover with VMware Site Recovery
(VASA); and low-risk vCloud deployments. Manager (SRM), Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) and
Veritas Cluster Server (VCS). It supports near-instant,
application-aware hardware snapshots on any Windows
server using the XIV provider for Windows Volume Shadow
Copy 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) SATA (1 TB or 2 TB) SAS (2 TB or 3 TB)
Number of disk drives 72/180 72/180
(min/max)
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) 360 GB (24 GB of memory per module)
240 GB (model with 16 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—Fibre 24 (4 Gbps ports) 24 (8 Gbps ports)
Channel*
Max number of ports—iSCSI 6 22
over Gigabit Ethernet
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 × width × 199 × 60 × 107 cm 202 × 66 × 120 cm
depth)
Maximum weight 877 kg (1934 lbs) 1044.5 kg (2303.1 lbs)
Clearance front/rear 120/100 cm 120/120 cm
Redundant power feed √ √
Input voltage 180 - 264 V ac at 60 A or 30 A (±10%) 180 - 264 V ac at 60 A or 30 A (±10%)
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
Capacity on demand √ √
configurations
Warranty 1 and 3 year Limited Warranty, Onsite service, 1 and 3 year Limited Warranty, Onsite service,
Same Day 24×7 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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