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IBM XIV Storage System Copy Services and Migration

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When a logical volume or LUN is created on an <strong>XIV</strong> system, the volume’s data is divided intopieces 1 MB in size, called partitions. Each partition is duplicated for data protection <strong>and</strong>stored on disks of different modules. All partitions of a volume are pseudo-r<strong>and</strong>omlydistributed across the modules <strong>and</strong> disk drives, as shown in Figure 1-2.<strong>XIV</strong> Architecture• Split volume data in 1MBpartitions• Maintain a copy of eachpartition• Store both copies indifferent modules• Spread data of a volumeacross all disk drivespseudo r<strong>and</strong>omlyVolumeData M odule 1Data Module 2Data M odule 3Figure 1-2 <strong>XIV</strong> architecture: distribution of dataChapter 1. Snapshots 3

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