Accelerate with ATS : What’s new with XIV - IBM Spectrum Accelerate

Here's another interesting webcast communicated via the Accelerate with ATS blog about XIV and its newly announced SDS version : IBM Spectrum Accelerate.

The webcast will focus on this IBM Spectrum Accelerate, "a software defined storage offering (...) based on our proven XIV integrated storage system. The same ease of management with the XIV GUI, the same hotspot-free performance, predictable scaling, enterprise capabilities such as remote mirroring and flash caching, and much more".

In short IBM Spectrum Accelerate is the very same software that runs on the XIV box, but as a customer you can (within some boudaries) decide which hardware you put underneath it. You get all the advantages and functionalities as with an XIV box, but you can create a smaller entry point starting from just a few x86 servers.

Let me give you some technical requirements :

Hardware requirements
x86 servers running VMware ESX Hypervisor with a VM configured according to the following specifications.

Minimal VM requirements:
CPU cores: 4 nonvirtualized CPU cores
Memory: 24 GB physical memory
Network: 2x 10 GbE ports
Disks: 6 to 12 hard-drives, 1, 2, 3, or 4 TB in size
SSD (optional): One 500 GB or 800 GB SSD

Recommended VM requirements:
CPU cores: 4 nonvirtualized CPU cores
Memory: 48 GB physical memory
Network: 4 to 8 10 GbE ports
Disks: 6 to 12 hard-drives, 2, 3, or 4 TB in size
SSD: One 800 GB SSD

Software requirements
VMware ESX v5.5 only, is required on every node.

Be sure to follow this webcast to put this in the right perspective :
Date: Thursday March 26th 2015
Time: Noon New York, 5 p.m. London, 6 p.m. Brussels, 17:00:00 GMT
Duration: 1.5 hours

Register over here.