- Overview
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| Feature | Benefits |
|---|---|
| Distributed, parallel architecture | High Performance. Full exploitation of system resources including disks, CPUs, and switches combined with unique caching algorithms translates into excellent performance. |
| Active-Active N + 1 redundancy of all system components | High Reliability. Systems components are protected in an N+1 active-active design to help ensure the highest levels of reliability and availability. |
| Rapid Self Healing | Reduced risk of impact from disk failure. The system's exceptionally short rebuild process allows a 1 TB disk drive to be re-built in 30 minutes or less, helping to reduce the chance of a second disk failure during the critical time of the rebuild process. |
| Snapshots | Near-instantaneous snapshots. The system's innovative architecture enables snapshot copies of data to be created and made available in sub-second time. Minimal capacity overhead. Snapshot copies are differential and require capacity only to store changes in data. Up to differential 16,000 snapshots. A true solution for multi-generation logical backup, with virtually no impact to system performance. |
| Remote mirroring | Protection against site failure. Synchronous remote mirroring provides protection against primary site outages, disasters and site failures. |
| Thin provisioning | Reduce storage costs. Thin provisioning allows logical volumes to exceed physical capacity, while the latter only need be large enough to contain the data actually written. This flexibility can offer dramatic savings in storage, power, and space costs Simplified provisioning. Thin provisioning can simplify the management of capacity allocation for application workloads. |
| Data migration | Allows the migration of volumes from legacy systems to the IBM XIV® Storage System, copying the information while applications are online |