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44-562: According to Gartner, IBM was the number one all-flash storage array vendor in 2014 selling over 2,100 FlashSystems totaling 62 petabytes (PB) of capacity. The IBM FlashSystem commanded 33% of the total all-flash capacity sold by all vendors for the year. As of February 12, 2020, the FlashSystem brand has replaced both the Storwize and XIV brands in IBM. The IBM FlashSystem architecture

88-465: A 2U, 19-inch rack mount enclosure. 1 Gbit/s iSCSI connectivity is standard, with options for 16 Gbit/s FC and 10 Gbit/s iSCSI/FCoE connectivity. It holds up to 24 2.5" SAS drives and supports the attachment of up to 20 Storwize V7000 expansion enclosures. IBM Storwize V7000 Gen 2+ is an updated Storwize V7000 Gen 2 with a newer CPU, doubled cache memory and faster FC options, integrated compression acceleration, and additional scalability with

132-951: A control enclosure and up to 10 standard expansion enclosures or 4 high-density expansion enclosures. It can scale up to 392 disks and 12.04 PB raw internal capacity. Storwize V5000 consists of one to two control enclosures and up to 12 expansion enclosures, for a maximum of 18 enclosures altogether. It can scale up to 480 disks and 960 TB raw internal capacity. Hardware details: Storwize V3700 consists of one control enclosure and up to 4 expansion enclosures. It can scale up to 240 2.5" disks or 120 3.5" disks and 480 TB raw internal capacity. Hardware details: Storwize V3700 also offers management and interoperability features from previous Storwize systems, include simple management capabilities, virtualization of internal storage and thin provisioning for improved storage utilization and one-way data migration to easily move data onto Storwize V3700. An entry-level SAN Volume Controller configuration contains

176-593: A control enclosure and up to 10 standard expansion enclosures or 4 high-density expansion enclosures. It can scale up to 392 disks and 12.04 PB raw internal capacity. Storwize V5030 consists of a control enclosure and up to 20 standard expansion enclosures or 8 high-density expansion enclosures. It can scale up to 760 disks and 23.34 PB raw internal capacity. Storwize V5020 consists of a control enclosure and up to 10 standard expansion enclosures or 4 high-density expansion enclosures. It can scale up to 392 disks and 12.04 PB raw internal capacity. Storwize V5010 consists of

220-572: A control enclosure and up to 20 standard expansion enclosures or 8 high-density expansion enclosures. It supports NVMe and FC-NVMe (NVMe-oF) on 16 Gbit/s, 32 Gbit/s adapters, and iSCSI/iWARP/RoCE ( iSCSI Extensions for RDMA ) on 25GbE adapters. It can scale up to 760 disks and 23.34 PB raw internal capacity. Hardware details: Storwize V5030E consists of a control enclosure and up to 20 standard expansion enclosures or 8 high-density expansion enclosures. It can scale up to 760 disks and 23.34 PB raw internal capacity. Storwize V5010E consists of

264-461: A single I/O group, can scale out to support four I/O groups and can scale up to support 4,096 host servers, up to 8,192 volumes and up to 32 PB of virtualized storage capacity. Hardware details (per node - an I/O group consists of TWO nodes): Flex System V7000 released in 2012 and can scale up to 240 2.5" disks per control enclosure, or 960 2.5" disks per clustered system. Hardware details: XIV storage systems The IBM XIV Storage System

308-399: A software platform consisting largely of a modified Linux kernel and other open source software . Traditional storage systems distribute a volume across a subset of disk drives in a clustered fashion. The XIV storage system distributes volumes across all modules in 1 MiB chunks ( partitions ) so that all of the modules' resources are used evenly. For robustness, each logical partition

352-496: A total of 12 hardware compression engines. The very next day on October 24, 2017 IBM announced an update to the FlashSystem A9000 with the new model 425. This new model would incorporate the previously-announced FlashSystem 900 model AE3, but retain the same grid controllers as the 415 model. With two generations of FlashSystem A9000 now in the market, the 415 model and the 425 model, IBM on February 27, 2018 announced

396-498: A wide range of software-defined storage services including: Real-time Compression, external storage virtualization, snapshots, replication, IBM Easy Tier, VAAI, and thin provisioning. IBM FlashSystem V840 was a 6U rackmount with up to 40TB of usable storage capacity and targeted for workloads that need high velocity data access and advanced storage services. It is the predecessor of the FlashSystem V9000. FlashSystem 840

440-430: A zero-tuning data distribution design. The FlashSystem A9000 family supports IBM Real-time Compression, real-time global deduplication and real-time pattern removal, while maintaining average access times of 250 μs under database workloads. Up to 144 instances of FlashSystem A9000 and XIV Storage Systems can be combined into one HyperScale cluster with client multitenancy . Since A9000, A9000R and XIV Storage Systems share

484-431: Is a patented highly granular RAID 5 type data protection arrangement implemented across each set of 10 flash chips in the system. IBM FlashSystem 900, 840, 820, and 720 products also include a second layer of RAID 5 implemented within the data distribution logic at the system level, providing "two-dimensional" data protection within the system. IBM claims that this two-dimensional protection is strongly differentiated within

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528-431: Is a software package that can be installed on operating systems including Microsoft Windows , Linux and Mac OS. An XIV Mobile Dashboard available for Android or iOS . The IBM XIV Storage System was developed in 2002 by an Israeli start-up company funded and headed by engineer and businessman Moshe Yanai . They delivered their first system to a customer in 2005. Their product was called Nextra. In December 2007,

572-471: Is based on the same software as IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC). Formerly Storwize was an independent data storage organisation. Сollateral lines: The Storwize family offers several members: Each of the above family members run software that is based on a common source codebase, although each has a type specific downloadable package. In Feb 2020 the Storwize V5000 and V5100 are replaced by

616-423: Is stored in at least two copies on separate modules, so that if a part of a disk drive, an entire disk drive, or an entire module fails, the data is still available. One can increase the system storage capacity by adding additional modules. When one adds a module, the system automatically redistributes previously stored data to make optimal use of its I/O capacity. Depending on the model and disk type chosen when

660-606: Is targeted for OLTP and OLAP databases. On October 24, 2017 IBM announced an update to the FlashSystem 900 to add support for hardware-accelerated, inline data compression, but update loosened flash technology to 3D triple-level cell ( TLC ). Both products were released in jan 2014 and were improved in May 2014 with new entry level capacity points and more protocols. Both models supports ECC, IBM Variable Stripe RAID, and two-dimensional flash RAID for data protection and offers hot-swap flash modules and power supplies. The systems also supports

704-468: Is targeted for mixed workload environments. IBM FlashSystem 900 is composed of IBM enhanced MLC flash technology. The system is a 2U rackmount unit with up to 57TB of RAID-5, usable storage capacity. The system supports a high-availability architecture with redundant and hot-swappable components, IBM optimized ECC, IBM Variable Stripe RAID, and two-dimensional flash RAID for data protection. With read IOPS of 1,100,000 and write IOPS of 600,000, FlashSystem 900

748-540: The (XIV) acquisition, however, the product still retains the IBM FlashCore based flash modules developed at TMS IBM FlashSystem products are based on a custom hardware architecture that incorporates field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The FlashSystem design omits traditional server-based array controllers. The primary components of each FlashSystem unit include custom flash modules, external storage area network interfaces, and FPGA logic that spreads data through

792-409: The 840, including real-time compression, replication, and snapshots. IBM refreshed the product line on February 19, 2015 by announcing the FlashSystem 900 model AE2, a direct replacement for the FlashSystem 840, and the FlashSystem V9000 which combined a FlashSystem 900 model AE2 enclosure with a pair of San Volume Controllers . The V9000 brought software-defined storage into the FlashSystem brand for

836-493: The FlashSystem 5000 and 5100 respectively; and the FlashSystem 900 and Storwize V7000 are replaced by the FlashSystem 7200. According to the official availability dates and the days the systems are removed from marketing you can determine the following availability to purchase shown in light green. The graphics only contains the IBM storage systems starting with 'V', .i.e. V3700, V5000, V5010(E), V5020, V5030(E), V5100 and V7000. These systems vary even beyond their names, therefore

880-488: The FlashSystem 7200. The FlashSystem V9000 and 9100 are replaced by the FlashSystem 9200. The FlashSystem A9000R is replaced by the FlashSystem 9200R. With this announcement, the FlashSystem product line will no longer include enclosures with end-to-end hardware only data path technology from the Texas Memory Systems (RamSan) acquisition nor will it include enclosures running Spectrum Accelerate software from

924-545: The FlashSystem 840 product, which was the first FlashSystem designed entirely by IBM post-acquisition of TMS. The key enhancements of the new generation were RAS enhancements, higher capacities, higher performance, new 16 Gbit Fibre Channel and 10 Gbit Fibre Channel over Ethernet interfaces, and a new management GUI . IBM also announced the FlashSystem Enterprise Performance Solution, which added software features and functions to

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968-613: The FlashSystem line to include the FlashSystem 7200, FlashSystem 9200, and FlashSystem 9200R. Additionally, IBM announced the FlashSystem 5010, 5030, and 5100 which are re-branded Storwize storage enclosures. With this announcement, IBM retired the Storwize brand and simplified the distributed storage portfolio underneath the FlashSystems brand. The Storwize V5000 and V5100 are replaced by the FlashSystem 5000 and 5100 respectively. The FlashSystem 900 and Storwize V7000 are replaced by

1012-697: The IBM Corporation acquired XIV, renaming the product the IBM XIV Storage System. The first IBM version of the product was launched publicly on September 8, 2008. Unofficially within IBM this product is called Generation 2 of the XIV. The differences between Gen1 and Gen2 were not architectural, they were mainly physical. New disks were introduced, new controllers, new interconnects, improved management, additional software functions. In September 2011, IBM announced larger disk drives, changing

1056-487: The IBM FlashCore technology to deliver consistent low latency performance. The A9000 was a fully configured solution, while the A9000R enabled a grid architecture and the ability to scale to petabytes of storage. These products relied on Spectrum Accelerate (formerly XIV) running on dedicated grid controllers to perform the software defined storage functions coupled with FlashSystem 900 storage enclosures. The A9000 included

1100-660: The RamSan-710, RamSan-810, RamSan-720, and RamSan-820 systems, which were replaced directly with corresponding IBM FlashSystem products in 2013. IBM FlashSystem products were first made generally available on April 11, 2013, in conjunction with the announcement of a US$ 1 billion investment in flash optimization research and development. At the Flash Ahead event, IBM emphasized the economic "tipping point" that flash had reached versus traditional storage devices for high-performance applications. On January 16, 2014, IBM announced

1144-684: The Spectrum Accelerate management software, the FlashSystem A9000R is occasionally referred to as XIV Gen4 . IBM FlashSystem V9000 is a 6U rackmount with up to 57 TB of usable storage capacity provided by FlashSystem 900 modules, managed by IBM Spectrum Virtualize software. The system supports a wide range of advanced data services such as IBM Real-time Compression and external storage virtualization. With scalability up to 456 TB of usable capacity (over 2 PB of effective capacity when using Real-time Compression), FlashSystem V9000

1188-514: The Storage Performance Council that showed fast response time (SPC-1 LRT) and high SPC-1 IOPS per external storage port - common measures of high storage performance - as well as low power consumption. IBM claims that enterprise multi-level cell flash plus Variable Stripe RAID and other IBM reliability technology forms a good balance between reliability and economics for most enterprise environments. IBM Variable Stripe RAID

1232-508: The ability to migrate from XIV Gen3 systems. IBM announced an update to the FlashSystem 900 on October 23, 2017, with new models AE3 and UF3. This marks the first time that the FlashSystem brand offered a consumption model UF3 for the product line whereby a customer would only pay for what they used. The update tripled the capacity of the array and added at-line-speed hardware user data compression. The MicroLatency flash modules were updated to 32-layer 3D TLC NAND flash from Micron. Rather than

1276-515: The attachment of up to 20 Storwize V7000 expansion enclosures. IBM Storwize V7000 next-generation models offer increased performance and connectivity, integrated compression acceleration, and additional scalability with the following features: Software Details: Storwize V7000 consists of one to four control enclosures and up to 36 expansion enclosures, for a maximum of 40 enclosures altogether. It can scale up to 960 disks and 1.44PB raw internal capacity. Hardware details: Storwize V5100 consists of

1320-426: The compression feature slowing down data access as usually happens with software based compression, the 900 continued to advertise 1.2 million I/O operations per second (IOPs) due to the hardware compression implementation and hardware only data path. The compression engines were implemented in each flash module and, with the capability to have up to 12 modules per enclosure, a fully loaded enclosure therefore would have

1364-617: The end of marketing for the XIV storage systems models 214 and 314, commonly known as "XIV Gen3". They listed the replacement product as the A9000 model 425. This announcement marked the end of the XIV Storage System brand with the FlashSystem brand taking its place. With the announcement of the FlashSystem 9100 on July 10, 2018, the product line added a new enclosure that was designed with NVM Express (NVMe) from end-to-end. The 9100

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1408-490: The first time, all managed under one management domain, also called a single-pane-of-glass. Both of these products relied on Micron Technology 's MLC flash chip technology The product line was expanded on April 27, 2016 when IBM announced two new products, the FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R model 415. Both of these products included features specifically designed for cloud environments. They incorporated pattern removal, data de-duplication, and real-time compression combined with

1452-480: The following features: In addition, other Storwize systems offer the following features (some of them may require licenses): In addition, the Storwize V7000 Unified offered the following features: Most Storwize systems are intended for certain environments and provide several features, that are not licensed by default. There are several types of licenses that depend on the chosen model and

1496-405: The following features: Software Details: The IBM Storwize V7000 SFF Control Enclosure Model 524, announced 6 May 2014, features two node canisters and up to 128 GiB cache (system total) in a 2U, 19-inch rack mount enclosure. 1 Gbit/s iSCSI connectivity is standard, with options for 8 Gbit/s FC and 10 Gbit/s iSCSI/FCoE connectivity. It holds up to 24 2.5" SAS drives and supports

1540-607: The graphics also contains IBM type and model. All the displayed systems can still get regular service at the end of the timeline (beginning of 2020). For the IBM SAN Volume Controller's timeline see there. Storwize V7000 provides a very similar architecture to SVC, using the RAID code from the DS8000 to provide internal managed disks and SSD code from the DS8000 for tiered storage . All Storwize systems offer

1584-442: The industry. mount 900 UF2 900 UF3 9200R IBM FlashSystem A9000 is a 8U rackmount unit with up to 300 TB of usable storage capacity provided by FlashSystem 900 modules, managed by IBM Spectrum Accelerate software. It's scalable sibling, the FlashSystem A9000R, consists of a minimum of two units, scaling to 6 units or 1.8 PB usable in a 42U rack. A9000R units share CPU, cache and access paths with their neighbours, leveraging

1628-407: The machine is ordered, one system can be configured for storage capacity from 27 TB to 324 TB. The XIV software features include remote mirroring, thin provisioning , quality of service controls, LDAP authentication support, VMware support, differential, writable snapshots, online volume migration between two XIV systems and encryption protecting data at rest . The IBM XIV management GUI

1672-2071: The subject of the license: There are some limitations for each model and each licensed internal code. These can be read on IBMs web pages. Here are examples for V7000, the V5000 series, and IBM SAN Volume Controller . In addition, there are more contributors to a working environment. IBM provides this in an interactive interoperabitlity matrix called IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC) . As of November 2016, available Storwize media sizes include 2.5" flash SSDs with up to 15.36 TB capacity and 3.5" Nearline-HDDs with up to 10 TB capacity, available for Storwize 5000, 7000 and SAN Volume Controller native attach. IBM Storwize Easy Tier will automatically manage and continually optimize data placement in mixed pools of nearline disks / standard disks / read-intensive Flash and enterprise-grade Flash SSDs, including from virtualized devices. The Storwize family hardware consists of control enclosures and expansion enclosures, connected with wide SAS cables (Four lanes of 6 Gbit /s or 12 Gbit/s). Each enclosure houses 2.5" or 3.5" drives. The control enclosure contains two independent control units (node canisters) based on SAN Volume Controller technology, which are clustered via an internal network. Each enclosure also includes two power supply units (PSUs). Eight available enclosure models: The IBM Storwize V7000 SFF Enclosure Model 724, announced November 6, 2018, supports NVMe and FC-NVMe (NVMe/FC) on 16 or 32 Gbit/s adapters, and iSER ( iSCSI Extensions for RDMA ) or iSCSI on 25GbE adapters. The Control Enclosure holds 24 2.5" NVMe flash drives or 24 2.5" NVMe FlashCore modules (FlashCore modules contain IBM MicroLatency technology with built-in hardware compression and encryption). Software Details: The IBM Storwize V7000 SFF Control Enclosure Model 624, announced 23 August 2016, features two node canisters and up to 256 GiB cache (system total) in

1716-436: The system. Each flash module within a FlashSystem incorporates enterprise multi-level cell or single-level cell flash chips and FPGAs that provide IBM Variable Stripe RAID data protection as well as standard flash memory controller functions. IBM claims that these architectural attributes provide strong performance, reliability, and efficiency. In August 2013, IBM submitted a single FlashSystem 820 SPC-1 benchmark result to

1760-410: Was a line of cabinet-size disk storage servers . The system is a collection of modules , each of which is an independent computer with its own memory , interconnections, disk drives, and other subcomponents, laid out in a grid and connected together in parallel using either InfiniBand (third generation systems) or Ethernet (second generation systems) connections. Each module has an x86 CPU and runs

1804-462: Was acquired by IBM. As RamSan technology evolved, TMS adapted the systems to different storage media ( DRAM , single-level cell flash memory , and multi-level cell flash memory) and external storage area network interfaces ( Fibre Channel and InfiniBand ), but the core system design principles remained relatively constant: custom hardware with a shared internal network to maximize speed, particularly latency. The last RamSan products available were

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1848-943: Was composed of enterprise multi-level cell (eMLC) flash technology and was a 2U rackmount unit with up to 48TB of usable storage capacity, 40TB with RAID 5. With read IOPS of 1,100,000 and write IOPS of 600,000, FlashSystem 840 is targeted for OLTP and OLAP databases, scientific applications and cloud services. It is the predecessor of the FlashSystem 900. Up to 456 TB with full scale-out of control enclosures up to 630,000 random read IOPS Up to 320 TB with full scale-out of control enclosures up to 630,000 random read IOPS up to 1,200,000 random read IOPS up to 1,100,000 random read IOPS up to 1,100,000 random read IOPS up to 525,000 random read IOPS up to 525,000 random read IOPS up to 550,000 random read IOPS up to 570,000 random read IOPS IBM Storwize family IBM Storwize systems were virtualizing RAID computer data storage systems with raw storage capacities up to 32 PB . Storwize

1892-568: Was originally developed by Texas Memory Systems (TMS) as their RamSan product line. TMS was a small private company founded in 1978 and based in Houston, Texas , that supplied solid-state drive products to the market longer than any other company. The TMS RamSan line of enterprise solid state storage products was first launched in the early 2000s with the RamSan-520, and over seven RamSan technology generations were released through 2012, when TMS

1936-638: Was the first FlashSystem product which combined the Spectrum Virtualize software stack with the IBM Flash Core Module technology in a single enclosure. To achieve this, IBM redesigned the proprietary custom form-factor MicroLatency Flash Modules with FlashCore technology into a standard 2 1/2 inch form-factor NVMe SSD. The included Flash Core Modules were available in 4.8TB, 9.6TB, and 19.2TB capacities with up to 5:1 compression. On February 12, 2020, IBM announced an expansion of

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