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Optimizing Enterprise Storage

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

with IBM XIV

White Paper | June 2009

Summary of Contents for XIV STORAGE SYSTEM

Page 1: ...I IB BM M X XI IV V S St to or ra ag ge e S Sy ys st te em m Optimizing Enterprise Storage Total Cost of Ownership TCO with IBM XIV White Paper June 2009...

Page 2: ...product or services available in your area Any statements regarding IBM s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only The in...

Page 3: ...s 10 Power and cooling consumption 10 Floor space use 11 Summary How to reduce environmental costs 11 Administration and Management Costs 12 Less management overhead 12 Summary How to reduce managemen...

Page 4: ...stem is truly more favorable to the company s bottom line The chart below shows a fuller set of storage array cost factors and their generally recognized relative impact on a system s overall cost 1 F...

Page 5: ...V do not use 1 TB drives for tier 1 or even tier 2 storage rather for archiving and other needs that do not require high performance or high reliability The XIV system provides enterprise class perfor...

Page 6: ...balanced and comprehensive approach to reducing all cost factors the XIV system succeeds in dramatically reducing TCO where other systems fail Backup Restore Snaps with no performance impact Differen...

Page 7: ...ents makes customized hardware unnecessary and makes it possible to integrate newer state of the art hardware as soon as it becomes available and without delay Innovative use of highly economical disk...

Page 8: ...re eliminates the complexity and cost of migrating data from tier to tier and of maintaining different architectures for different tiers The XIV system offers further cost efficiencies by enabling sca...

Page 9: ...that higher capacity SATA disks generally cost less than smaller FC or Serial Attached SCSI SAS disks on a per GB basis and consume much less power and cooling When the use of these high capacity 1 T...

Page 10: ...s the presence of the defined physical capacity in the system even if years go by before its use Upfront purchases commit capital unnecessarily and waste IT resources in managing the unused capacity U...

Page 11: ...em s optimization of capacity use is its self management of data XIV s automated volume distribution mechanism optimizes the use of capacity across all system disks at all times including at peak time...

Page 12: ...us reclaiming it XIV management tools enable administrators to easily zero out space no longer in use so that the XIV system can automatically reclaim it and allow its reuse Traditional system have a...

Page 13: ...A single tier architecture Hardware as an interchangeable upgradable commodity Inexpensive VHDSR disks Reduced capacity needs up front and ongoing Easy scaling and on the same platform Built in featu...

Page 14: ...lves For existing storage this can translate to a space savings of more than 80 to clarify VHDSR drives take up the same space as the MDFR drives but provide 1 TB of storage capacity rather than 146 G...

Page 15: ...example that DBAs handle provisioning without external assistance controlling only those volumes they are authorized to handle based on role The XIV system s ability to enable lesser skilled personne...

Page 16: ...irectly and indirectly The XIV system keeps data availability continuous and minimizes the extent and cost of downtime through redundant hardware automated and pro active maintenance and efficient har...

Page 17: ...r maintenance is another inevitable source of friction as maintenance must compete with other higher priority demands In traditional systems rolling out a business application may also require system...

Page 18: ...acy systems the XIV approach greatly reduces the time and space that backups require and consequently the costs involved In addition the XIV storage system offers logical backup and low cost recovery...

Page 19: ...h disk requires less power cooling and space as well as less supporting infrastructure and add on software The calculations provided here assume that MDFR drives are replaced by the equivalent amount...

Page 20: ...High Density Drive Size 100 For example Assuming you are comparing your existing 450 GB drives to XIV s 1 TB 1000 GB drives the floor space savings is calculated as follows S Sa av vi in ng gs s i in...

Page 21: ...gs in Power Cooling 1 0 75 146 1000 100 8 89 9 To compare RAID 5 drives to XIV s VHDSR drives use the following formula Savings in Power Cooling 1 0 75 0 8 Your MDFR Drive Size 0 5 the XIV system VHDS...