IBM XIV Scalability

it_user523104 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Programmer at Sharp

It gives you 325 TB usable per rack, so it's very scalable. Since we're using it behind the SVC, we could just bring in five more, if we had the money, and just completely scale it behind the SVC without any difficulty whatsoever.

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Ajith Kandaramage - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operation Engineer at HNB

IBM XIV's scalability is adequate for our requirements, but because it's modular, you can't scale to larger requirements.

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it_user736191 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage Engineer with 10,001+ employees
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Systems Engineer II at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
it_user649086 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. System Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The active front-end ports are according to the ordered capacity, and new ports are activated when you order extra. The number of usable ports in a full capacity configuration (excluding for Remote mirroring) are so low compared to high-end storages. If I remember correctly, it was six modules of four ports, minus at least four for mirroring. The queue per port was 1400 (may have changed).

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it_user735234 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer V, Enterprise Storage Systems at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Historically, there has been no way to expand beyond the maximum provided in a single rack, so using SVC was required.

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