Features and functionality
Spectrum Accelerate is characterized by an advanced set of storage capabilities and features.
- Performance
- Cache and disks in every module
- Extremely fast rebuild time in the event of disk failure
- Constant, predictable high performance that scales linearly with added storage enclosures with zero tuning
- Uses flash media to provide a superior cache hit ratio, as well as extended cache across all volumes to boost performance while saving the need to manage tiers
- Agility
- Deploy scale-out storage grids in automated environments in minutes rather than days
- Operate seamlessly across delivery models—on commodity servers in private cloud, with the optimized XIV system, and on public cloud infrastructure
- Repurpose servers at any time to improve utilization
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- Ability to restrict the performance associated with selected tenants (in a multi-tenant setting), storage pools, or hosts
- Establish different performance tiers without a need for physical tiering
- Sustain high performance without any manual or system-background tuning
- Reliability
- Maintains resilience during hardware failures, continuing to function with minimal performance impact
- Data mirroring guarantees that the data is always protected against possible failure
- Fault tolerance, failure analysis, and self-healing algorithms
- No single-point-of-failure
- Connectivity
- iSCSI interface
- Multiple host access
- Multi-tenancy
- Allocate storage resources to several independent administrators, assuring that one administrator cannot access resources associated with another administrator
- Isolation of tenants; storage domain administrators are not informed of resources outside their storage domain
- Hyper-Scale Manager
- Easy-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI) management dashboard based on the XIV Management Tool
- Runs on any browser enabled device, from desktops to iOS and Android mobile devices
- IBM Hyper-Scale Consistency
- Supports cross-system consistency
- Enables coordinated snapshots across independent Spectrum Accelerate and XIV systems
- Helps to ensures data protection across multiple Spectrum Accelerate and XIV systems
- Snapshots
- Innovative snapshot functionality, including support for practically unlimited number of snapshots, snap-of-snap and restore-from-snap
- Replication
- Synchronous and asynchronous replication of a volume (as well as a consistency group) to a remote system
- Ease of management
- Standardize data management across the data center
- Tune-free, scaling enables management of large, dynamic storage capacities with minimal overhead and training
- Non-disruptive maintenance and upgrades
- Management software with graphical user interface (GUI), the IBM Hyper-Scale Manager, and a command-line interface (CLI)
- A mobile dashboard accessible from any browser-enabled device, from desktops to iOS and Android mobile devices
- Notifications of events through e-mail, SNMP, or SMS messages