New IBM Storage Comes to the EEC

Published 06 August 09 12:44 PM | EEC 

This week we just completed installing a new IBM XIV® Storage System: Model 2810 in san-alley. Ours is configured with 180 1TB SATA drives, and 15 modules; a data module consists of one Intel® Xeon® Quad-core 64-bit CPU, 8 GB fully buffered DIMM RAM. The flexibility that this hardware provides will greatly increase the effectiveness of the EEC by allowing us to meet the demands of our customer and product group engagements.

 

Hardware Specifications:

Hardware Highlights

Total Storage Central Processing Units

15 Intel® Xeon® 64-bit quad-core

Combined Physical Memory

120 GB

Raw Storage

180

Disk to Cache Bandwidth

240 Gbps

Internal Switching Capacity

160 Gbps

Fibre Channel Ports (Speed: 1 Gbs, 2 Gbs, & 4 Gbs)

24

iSCSI Gigabit Ethernet Ports

6

UPS

3

Gigabit Ethernet Switch

2

Disk Hot Spares

3

Data Module Hot Spare

1

Max Snapshots

16,000

 

Some of the main new features of the XIV are that they provide increased performance, more reliability/protection, thin provisioning, lower power consumption and the ability to take snapshots. For more information on IBM XIV® Storage System visit the IBM website at: http://www.xivstorage.com.

 

If you’d like to visit the EEC and validate our products using the XIV, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/eec.

 

Kevin Engman

Product Manager - EEC

Comments

# tonyr08 said on August 6, 2009 6:17 PM:

are you guys using infiniband @ all, just curious.  Also if you have an opinion on the subject that would be nice  

# Tom Quiere said on August 6, 2009 8:01 PM:

Next year we plan to support Infiniband internal and external to any customers under NDU.

# Arik said on August 8, 2009 6:25 AM:

Could you please share with us your considerations for choosing XIV and what are you're going

to do with this storage system ?

# Steve Cole said on August 10, 2009 11:31 AM:

We work with Microsoft’s storage partners to have examples of their products on site at the EEC for customer testing.  This enables us to provide a testing environment that closely matches the customer’s production environment, which then enables the testing to generate the highest level of feedback for the Product Groups at Microsoft and our partners.  The XIV will be used by Microsoft and IBM customers to test technologies such as Hyper-V, Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, High Performance Computing, Unified Communications and more.  We’re very excited to be working with IBM to get their latest storage product in front of our joint customers.

Steve Cole

Partner Relations Manager, Microsoft EEC

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