IBM XIV Storage System

IBM XIV Storage System

Two IBM XIV Gen3 racks (circa 2016)
Developer	XIV (2002-2007) IBM (2007-2018)
Release date	2005; 20 years ago (2005) (as Nextra) 2007 (as IBM XIV Storage System)
Discontinued	2018
CPU	x86 (Intel Xeon)[1]
Successor	IBM FlashSystem

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.^{[citation needed]}