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DS8000
The IBM DS8000 series (early IBM System Storage DS8000 series) is an IBM storage media platform with hybrid flash and hard disk storage for IBM mainframes and other enterprise grade computing environments. Description This series formerly designed as line of cabinet-size solutions, prior to more compact and affordable rack-mount DS6000 series. In 2015 the DS6000 line were discontinued, and the all-flash entry-level DS8882F model was released as rack-mount successor of DS6000 line. All IBM DS storage lines based on a IBM Power CPUs and use an IBM Power Systems servers as controllers. Models * TotalStorage models: ** DS8100 - released in 2004 *** Dual 2-core POWER5+-based controllers *** Can contain up to 384 drives (Fibre Channel or SATA) ** DS8300 - released in 2004 *** Dual 4-core POWER5+-based controllers (based on p570 servers) *** Can contain up to 1024 drives (Fibre Channel or SATA) * System Storage models: **DS8100 Turbo - released in 2006 **DS8300 Turbo - released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBM Storwize
IBM Storwize systems were virtualizing RAID computer data storage systems with raw storage capacities up to 32 PB. Storwize is based on the same software as IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC). Formerly Storwize was an independent data storage organisation. Models Сollateral lines: * IBM SAN Volume Controller – virtualizes multiple storage arrays; * IBM FlashSystem 9100 line – Flash memory high-end storage; * IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node – was designed for integration with IBM PureSystems (Support withdrawn at SVC v7.3.0) The Storwize family offers several members: * High-end 7000 line: ** IBM Storwize V7000 Gen3 - Capacity on up to 760 modules (32 PB) and the capability to use FlashCore modules ** IBM Storwize V7000 Gen2 - Capacity up to 4 PB and the capability to virtualize external storage ** IBM Storwize V7000 – Capacity up to 1.92 PB and the capability to virtualize external storage ** IBM Storwize V7000 Unified – provides file connectivity * Midrange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBM Enterprise Storage Server
The IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) or the ''Shark'' is an enterprise storage array from IBM. History Originally, in 1998 IBM released the IBM 2105 Versatile Storage Server (VSS). It did not meet commercial success and the successor came in 1999 in the form of the ESS, based on the same Seascape architecture. The Seascape architecture was an IBM storage architecture that included off-the-shelf components, including RS/6000 processors and the Serial Storage Architecture (SSA). The ESS was also widely known by its IBM internal codename Shark. The 2001 lineup have a redesigned case; this version won IF design award. It has been superseded by the IBM DS8000 series of storage servers. Models *2105-E10 IBM Enterprise Storage Server Model E10 - (1999) 64 disks *2105-E20 IBM Enterprise Storage Server Model E20 - (1999) 128 disks *2105-F10 IBM Enterprise Storage Server Model F10 - (2000) 64 disks *2105-F20 IBM Enterprise Storage Server Model F20 - (2000) 128 disks *2105-750 IBM Tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBM ESS
The IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) or the ''Shark'' is an enterprise storage array from IBM. History Originally, in 1998 IBM released the IBM 2105 Versatile Storage Server (VSS). It did not meet commercial success and the successor came in 1999 in the form of the ESS, based on the same Seascape architecture. The Seascape architecture was an IBM storage architecture that included off-the-shelf components, including RS/6000 processors and the Serial Storage Architecture (SSA). The ESS was also widely known by its IBM internal codename Shark. The 2001 lineup have a redesigned case; this version won IF design award. It has been superseded by the IBM DS8000 series of storage servers. Models *2105-E10 IBM Enterprise Storage Server Model E10 - (1999) 64 disks *2105-E20 IBM Enterprise Storage Server Model E20 - (1999) 128 disks *2105-F10 IBM Enterprise Storage Server Model F10 - (2000) 64 disks *2105-F20 IBM Enterprise Storage Server Model F20 - (2000) 128 disks *2105-750 IBM Tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unit Control Block
In IBM mainframe operating systems from the OS/360 and successors line, a Unit Control Block (UCB) is a memory structure, or a ''control block'', that describes any single input/output peripheral device (''unit''), or an ''exposure'' (alias), to the operating system. Certain data within the UCB also instructs the Input/Output Supervisor (IOS) to use certain closed subroutines in addition to normal IOS processing for additional physical device control. Some other operating systems have similar structures. Overview During initial program load (IPL) of current MVS systems, the Nucleus Initialization Program (NIP) reads necessary information from the I/O Definition File (IODF) and uses it to build the UCBs. The UCBs are stored in system-owned memory, in the Extended System Queue Area (ESQA). After IPL completes, UCBs are owned by Input/Output Support. Some of the data stored in the UCB are: device type (e.g. disk, tape, printer, terminal), address of the device (such as ''1002'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
POWER6
The POWER6 is a microprocessor developed by IBM that implemented the Power ISA v.2.03. When it became available in systems in 2007, it succeeded the POWER5+ as IBM's flagship Power microprocessor. It is claimed to be part of the eCLipz project, said to have a goal of converging IBM's server hardware where practical (hence "ipz" in the acronym: iSeries, pSeries, and zSeries). History POWER6 was described at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in February 2006, and additional details were added at the Microprocessor Forum in October 2006 and at the next ISSCC in February 2007. It was formally announced on May 21, 2007. It was released on June 8, 2007 at speeds of 3.5, 4.2 and 4.7 GHz, but the company has noted prototypes have reached 6 GHz. POWER6 reached first silicon in the middle of 2005, and was bumped to 5.0 GHz in May 2008 with the introduction of the P595. Description The POWER6 is a dual-core processor. Each core is capable of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBM FlashSystem
IBM FlashSystem is an IBM Storage enterprise system that stores data on flash memory. Unlike storage systems that use standard solid-state drives, IBM FlashSystem products incorporate custom hardware based on technology from the 2012 IBM acquisition of Texas Memory Systems. According to Gartner, IBM was the number one all-flash storage array vendor in 2014 selling over 2,100 FlashSystems totaling 62 petabytes (PB) of capacity. The IBM FlashSystem commanded 33% of the total all-flash capacity sold by all vendors for the year. As of February 12, 2020 the FlashSystem brand has replaced both the Storwize and XIV brands in IBM. History Origin The IBM FlashSystem architecture was originally developed by Texas Memory Systems (TMS) as their RamSan product line. TMS was a small private company founded in 1978 and based in Houston, Texas that supplied solid-state drive products to the market longer than any other company. The TMS RamSan line of enterprise solid state storage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IBM XIV
The IBM XIV Storage System was a line of cabinet-size disk storage servers. The system is a collection of modules, each of which is an independent computer with its own memory, interconnections, disk drives, and other subcomponents, laid out in a grid and connected together in parallel using either InfiniBand (third generation systems) or Ethernet (second generation systems) connections. Each module has an x86 CPU and runs a software platform consisting largely of a modified Linux kernel and other open source software. Description Traditional storage systems distribute a volume across a subset of disk drives in a clustered fashion. The XIV storage system distributes volumes across all modules in 1 MiB chunks (partitions) so that all of the modules' resources are used evenly. For robustness, each logical partition is stored in at least two copies on separate modules, so that if a part of a disk drive, an entire disk drive, or an entire module fails, the data is still available. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibibyte
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. To disambiguate arbitrarily sized bytes from the common 8-bit definition, network protocol documents such as The Internet Protocol () refer to an 8-bit byte as an octet. Those bits in an octet are usually counted with numbering from 0 to 7 or 7 to 0 depending on the bit endianness. The first bit is number 0, making the eighth bit number 7. The size of the byte has historically been hardware-dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size. Sizes from 1 to 48 bits have been used. The six-bit character code was an often-used implementation in early encoding systems, and computers using six-bit and nine-bit bytes were common in the 1960s. These systems often had memory words ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
POWER8
POWER8 is a family of superscalar multi-core microprocessors based on the Power ISA, announced in August 2013 at the Hot Chips conference. The designs are available for licensing under the OpenPOWER Foundation, which is the first time for such availability of IBM's highest-end processors. Systems based on POWER8 became available from IBM in June 2014. Systems and POWER8 processor designs made by other OpenPOWER members were available in early 2015. Design POWER8 is designed to be a massively multithreaded chip, with each of its cores capable of handling eight hardware threads simultaneously, for a total of 96 threads executed simultaneously on a 12-core chip. The processor makes use of very large amounts of on- and off-chip eDRAM caches, and on-chip memory controllers enable very high bandwidth to memory and system I/O. For most workloads, the chip is said to perform two to three times as fast as its predecessor, the POWER7. POWER8 chips comes in 6- or 12-core variants; e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KVM Switch
A KVM switch (with KVM being an abbreviation for "keyboard, video, and mouse") is a hardware device that allows a user to control multiple computers from one or more sets of keyboards, video monitors, and mice. Name Switches to connect multiple computers to one or more peripherals have had a variety of names. The earliest name was Keyboard Video Switch (KVS). With the advent of the mouse, the Keyboard, Video and Mouse (KVM) switch became popular. The name was introduced by Remigius Shatas, the founder of Cybex, a peripheral switch manufacturer, in 1995. Some companies call their switches Keyboard, Video, Mouse and Peripheral (KVMP). Types With the popularity of USB—USB keyboards, mice, and I/O devices are still the most common devices connected to a KVM switch. The classes of KVM switches that are reviewed, are based on different types of core technologies in terms of how the KVM switch handles USB I/O devices—including keyboards, mice, touchscreen displays, etc. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tebibyte
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. To disambiguate arbitrarily sized bytes from the common 8-bit definition, network protocol documents such as The Internet Protocol () refer to an 8-bit byte as an octet. Those bits in an octet are usually counted with numbering from 0 to 7 or 7 to 0 depending on the bit endianness. The first bit is number 0, making the eighth bit number 7. The size of the byte has historically been hardware-dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size. Sizes from 1 to 48 bits have been used. The six-bit character code was an often-used implementation in early encoding systems, and computers using six-bit and nine-bit bytes were common in the 1960s. These systems often had memory words ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
POWER7
POWER7 is a family of superscalar multi-core microprocessors based on the Power ISA 2.06 instruction set architecture released in 2010 that succeeded the POWER6 and POWER6+. POWER7 was developed by IBM at several sites including IBM's Rochester, MN; Austin, TX; Essex Junction, VT; T. J. Watson Research Center, NY; Bromont, QC and IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH, Böblingen, Germany laboratories. IBM announced servers based on POWER7 on 8 February 2010. History IBM won a $244 million DARPA contract in November 2006 to develop a petascale supercomputer architecture before the end of 2010 in the HPCS project. The contract also states that the architecture shall be available commercially. IBM's proposal, PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computer System), which won them the contract, is based on the POWER7 processor, AIX operating system and General Parallel File System. One feature that IBM and DARPA collaborated on is modifying the addressing and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
