IBM Spectrum Accelerate
overview
The following overview information describes the IBM Spectrum Accelerate functional features that are based
on the XIV® technology functional features.
Overview: IBM Spectrum Accelerate
IBM® Spectrum Accelerate™ is a key member of the IBM Spectrum Storage™ portfolio. It is a highly flexible storage solution that enables rapid deployment of block storage services for new and traditional workloads, on-premises, off-premises and in a combination of both.
Connectivity
This chapter describes the way the storage system connects internally and externally.
Storage pools
Spectrum Accelerate partitions the storage space into storage pools , where each volume belongs to a specific storage pool.
Volumes and snapshots
Volumes are the basic storage data units in Spectrum Accelerate .
Consistency groups
Consistency groups can be used to take simultaneous snapshots of multiple volumes, thus ensuring consistent copies of a group of volumes.
Synchronous remote mirroring
Spectrum Accelerate features synchronous and asynchronous remote mirroring for disaster recovery.
Asynchronous remote mirroring
Asynchronous mirroring enables high availability of critical data through a process that asynchronously replicates data updates that are recorded on a primary storage peer to a remote, secondary peer.
IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility
IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility enables a non-disruptive migration of volumes from one storage system to another.
Data migration
The use of any new storage system frequently requires the transfer of large amounts of data from the previous storage system to the new storage system.
Event handling
Spectrum Accelerate monitors the health, the configuration changes, and the activity of your storage systems, and generates system events.
Access control
Spectrum Accelerate features role-based authentication either natively or by using LDAP-based authentication.
Multi-Tenancy
Spectrum Accelerate allows allocation of storage resources to several independent administrators, assuring that one administrator cannot access resources associated with another administrator.
Non-disruptive code load
Non-disruptive code load (hot upgrade) enablesSpectrum Accelerate to upgrade its software from a current version to a newer version without disrupting application service.