IBM XIV Storage System logical architecture and concepts
In this chapter, we elaborate on various underlying design and architectural concepts of the IBM XIV Storage System that was introduced in Chapter 1, “IBM XIV Gen3 Storage System overview” on page 1.
This chapter covers the following topics:
•Architectural overview
•Parallelism
•Virtualization
•Data distribution
•Thin provisioning
•SSD Caching architecture
•Reliability, availability, and serviceability
2.1 Architecture overview
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