The document discusses IBM's XIV storage array. It provides details on: - XIV's simplicity and ease of use with no tuning required - XIV's scalability to multi-petabyte capacities through its grid architecture - New features of XIV including real-time compression, Microsoft Azure integration, and quality of service classes

1. Joe Krotz
IBM CTS – Cloud and Storage Systems
November 2015
A Smarter Cloud
for a Smarter Planet
IBM XIV

2. The Smarter Storage Approach
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3. Some XIV facts you should know
Over 10,000 XIV systems deployed worldwide
55 clients in North America with > 1 PB
3.6 PB order recently delivered
Seamless upgradability by adding SSD read cache
for an exponential performance increase
All features included in the array from day 1
All arrays include a Technical Advisor (TA) to assist
our clients!
Now with RTC!
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4. IBM XIV is Game-Changing Simplicity
Providing extreme ease-of-use
 Simple provisioning – No RAID groups
 Self optimization – No hotspots, zero tuning
 Innovative, easy to use GUI
See the demo below
 Easy to script CLI
 Consolidated management of XIV systems
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5. XIV Gen3 History
Multi-tenancy;
3-site mirror;
vCloud
Full REST;
Hyper-Scale
Capacity Reports
500 QoS; PCI-DSS
IBM
Spectrum
Accelerate;
6 TB drives;
Day Zero
VVOL
What’s New:
Real-time
Compression;
Microsoft Azure Site
Recovery
1Q 2015
2Q 2015
3Q 2014
2015: The
Year of
Low TCO
Announce May 11
GA June 4
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RAID 5
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RAID 5
300 GB
RAID 1/0
146 GB
RAID 5
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Spares
RAID 5
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RAID 5 300 GB
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RAID 5
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RAID 5
300 GB 15K
• MANUAL Process
• REQUIRES Pre-Planning
• RISK to existing production
• WILL create hotspots
• REQUIRES monitoring &
tuning
• COMPLEXITY GROWS WITH CAPACITY
• REQUIRES MORE Pre-Planning
• INCREASED RISK to existing
production
• REQUIRES MORE monitoring & tuning
• LOWER capacity utilization
• HOTSPOTS must be addressed
• SCALABILITY is limited and not linear
• LONG RAID rebuilds
Traditional Storage Distribution
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• COMPLETELY Automated
Process
• NO Pre-Planning
• AUTOMATIC Load Balancing
• EVEN Disk utilization
• Zero Tuning
• LINEAR Scalability
• NO Hot-Spots
• MAXIMUM capacity utilization
• WORLD-RECORD disk rebuilds

8. XIV Module
UPSUPS UPS
XIV Module
XIV Module
XIV Module
Host
Host
FC
Interconnect
iSCSI
Host
Data
Modules
Data
Modules
Interface
Modules
Interface
Modules
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IBM XIV Storage Array Hardware
Full Rack – 484TB (6TB Drives)
 15 modules
 90 cores (180 logical)
 180 1Tb, 2Tb, 3Tb, 4Tb or 6TB
SAS SED disks
 Infiniband fabric
 Up to 720GB memory
 Up to 12TB L2 SSD cache
 24 8GB FC ports
 22 iSCSI ports
What’s new
• IBM XIV delivers dramatic cost savings using field-
proven, inline IBM Real-time Compression and
without need for extra hardware:
• Brings IBM Random Access Compression Engine
(RACE) technology to the system software and
leverages the XIV grid architecture to scale
performance and simplify compression management
• Increases usable capacity per rack typically to one
petabyte or more with Real-time Compression, greatly
reducing effective cost per capacity
• Replicates compressed data faster and using less
bandwidth, freeing up bandwidth for other uses
• Continuously displays predicted or actual compression
ratios for all volumes
• Converts non-compressed volumes to compressed
non-disruptively
• Enables license acquisition on new XIV systems and by
software upgrade to existing XIV Gen3 systems

9. Unparalleled rebuild time
v11.6 brings impressive rebuild time with high density drives
Fully utilized 6TB drive rebuilds in under 1 hour
Negligible performance impact during rebuilds
High reliability keeps your data safe
Leading drive rebuild time
12.5 min per TB!
Rebuild times measured with 100% system FULL
Real life scenarios much shorter
All Gen3 models!
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11.1.1 11.2 11.5.1+
2 TB 60 min 26 min 20 min
3 TB 102 min 39 min 27 min
4 TB - - 36 min
6 TB - - 54 min

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Fortifying 800Gb Flash Cache for Gen3 Systems
Enjoy top performance amid HDD economics.
XIV uniquely brings HDD economics to your doorstep with tuning-
free, world-class price-performance and efficiency!
800Gb Flash Cache boosts the disk-to-cache ratio, supporting
seamless performance scaling in step with the denser 4Tb and
6Tb systems
Customers can opt for the best fit for their business objectives
-800Gb Flash Cache - up to 12Tb per 15 module system
-400Gb Flash Cache - up to 6Tb per 15 module system
XIV algorithms enhance the power of commodity flash drives to
help deliver the ultra-high cache performance, tuning free to all
system data
Applicable to systems with 4Tb and 6Tb HDD only

11. QoS Classes
• Ability to create “virtual tiers”
of storage without the need to
move data between tiers
• Limit the bandwidth
consumption of:
• Hosts
• Pools
• Domains
• Up to 500 QoS classes in the
system
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12. IBM XIV Real-time Compression (RtC)
XIV with RtC:
• Field-proven IBM Random Access Compression Engine (RACE) technology – compresses active primary
data
• RTC load spread over entire XIV grid
• IBM RtC compression guarantee for new systems
• Built in, highly accurate compression estimator
• 45 day trial at no extra charge
• License on new and existing XIVs, per installed module
Store up to 5X the data in the same physical space
Client benefits:
• Best in the industry – inline, no background processing
• Easy to apply and manage, software-based capacity scaling
• Informed choice of when best to compress
• Grid-optimized enterprise grade performance
XIV 11.6 also supports Microsoft Azure Site Recovery for data center disaster
recovery orchestration
Typical XIV RtC compression ratios
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13. XIV with RtC: More benefits
• Field-proven, customer-trusted, predictable leading compression ratios. Benefit from low-risk
over-provisioning and capacity planning
• Applies to hot and cold data. Non-disruptively hot-compress existing data
• No internal I/O overhead and XIV grid architecture advantage. Enjoy scalable, highly-
parallelized compression performance
• Free up bandwidth. Replicate compressed data using less bandwidth
• Easy!
 Easy to order, deploy, manage and utilize effectively
 Easy to monitor and plan for
 Software only. No special hardware required
Implemented with world-class XIV ease of use
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From code 11.4 to today:

15. Deep XIV – VMware Integration and Affinity
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16. All storage managed as a single system – a hyper
store
• IBM Hyper-Scale enables creation of a large scale-out data farm of multiple
systems: containers are added to, and become part of, a hyper store
• Storage can be migrated among containers in a manner transparent to host
applications; in the longer term, migration can be governed by QoS and
management policies
Steps toward the vision
• IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility: Online, non-disruptive data motion between XIV
frames in a manner transparent to applications
• IBM Hyper-Scale Manager: Powerful administration of multiple XIV systems
through consolidated views (available since 4Q 2012)
A new approach to scalable management
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17.  Scalable to multi-PB storage
 Future-proof flexibility and investment protection
 Wide spectrum of performance classes
 Consistent, predictive performance
 Minimal optimization and tuning
 Central administration
 Security
 Consolidated alerts, reporting
 Minimal setup
 Minimal training
Delivering toward the IBM Hyper-Scale
vision
XIV delivers management scalability
Capacity
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18. IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility for transparent data migration
 Flexible moving of volumes between frames
with full transparency to the host operating
system and application
 Facilitates migration by giving access to a
volume through multiple storage controllers
as a single, multipath volume on the host
 Administrators can move volumes to take
advantage of capabilities on other systems,
such as flash caching
XIV Frame 1 XIV Frame 2
Host
With IBM Hyper-Scale
data mobility is possible
in a manner that is
transparent to host
applications
 Key benefits:
◦ Maximizes utilization across racks
◦ Maximizes effective load balancing across
multiple racks
◦ Helps streamline migration between system
versions
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• XIV offers enterprise class SPC-1 performance at an excellent TCO
• XIV runs with only 180 spindles - significantly less than our competitors
• Power efficient
• Energy consumption <6KW
• Equipped with power efficient PSU
• Single frame floor space occupancy
• Lower TCO

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IBM XIV Spectrum Accelerate
XIV Spectrum Accelerate Storage is … XIV Software
X86
server
X86
server
X86
server
+
3 to 15 Storage Nodes
Client provided!
Built with mature, proven, XIV software stack
• Adapted to run on client provided x86 server
hardware
• Similar features and functions as an XIV
integrated system
• Compatible with XIV system for management
and replication
• Client installed
Complements XIV Integrated System
• Lower capacity and cost point solutions
• Rapid build-out of test and dev environments
• Lower cost DR targets
• Complete integration with XIV hardware
• and more…
Remote and branch offices
• HA storage for small environment
• Centralized management
• Scalable and modular building blocks utilizing
commodity hardware
Bridge to the Hybrid Cloud
• Backup and recover to/from the cloud
• Easily adapt to changing environments
• Enable Cloud Service Providers to provide
advanced XIV storage features
Use Cases

22. IBM XIV is Differentiating Value for Compute Clouds
Consistent high performance for mixed changing workloads
– no hotspots, no tuning
Industry leading ease-of-use and automation, with simple
commands
Flexible QoS classes without data movement and SSD
caching on/off
Capacity scaling to 485TB with instant use and high
performance with no tuning; IBM Hyper-Scale for
management scaled across the data center
Reliable, self-tuning, self-healing, high availability enterprise
storage
Seamless integration with OpenStack Grizzly driver and
others
Low per TB cost, high utilization, high capacity per tile,
power and cooling benefits
Keeps pace with dynamic compute clouds
and performance demands
Minimal management with automated
storage provisioning
Provides agile, easily managed classes of
service
Scalable, elastic infrastructure for
responding to dynamic needs
Continuous service without performance
degradation
Integrated cloud management
Cost-effective cloud deployments
Compute cloud benefit
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IBM XIV Storage and Spectrum Accelerate
with Cloud Integration
Eliminates complexity associated with traditional arrays
• No need to have the workload self-describe storage needs to the cloud
management layer
Great price-performance ratio
• Optimized for large drives, small footprint
• High performance over IP with 10GbE
Tight hypervisor integration (SCVMM, SRM, VAAI, vCenter)
Ultra-easy management
Designed for extreme high availability
Proven – more and more IBM and client clouds are built on XIV
Solutions with IBM SmartCloud and OpenStack

24. Data Center and Point of Presence
New Data Centers in 2014
Network Point of Presence
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IBM SoftLayer Global Footprint
100,000+
Servers
21,000
Customers
20,000,000
Active
Domains
•IPv4/IPv6 dual stack
•Global DNS
•Global DDOS Mitigation
•Global Internet Exchanges &
Peering
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 Infrastructure solution with a common management interface and API across a unified architecture
 Mix and match bare metal servers, virtual server instances, and hosted private clouds
 Full integration with all IBM storage portfolio offerings
 Full OpenStack, RESTful API, SmartCloud Storage and IBM Storage Integration Server integration
 Seamless scaling for Cloud and large deployments. This include Public, Private and Hybrid solutions
Bare metal with
your own stack
Dedicated virtualized
environment
Shared virtual
environment
Dedicated virtualized
environment
Triple Network Architecture
Automation & Support
Delivers Outstanding Performance & Price
Flexibility to Deliver Dynamic/ Hybrid Capability

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See the latest XIV GUI demo

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For more information:
Websites:
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http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/
Product Pages:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/storwize/
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/xiv/
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