XtremIO Executive Overview

The XtremIO storage system is based on a scale-out architecture. The system begins with a single building block, called an “X-Brick”. An X-Brick by itself is a high-availability, high performance SAN storage appliance containing SSDs, redundant storage processors, redundant power and coolin, four 8Gbps Fibre Channel and four 10Gbps iSCSI host ports. The logical amount of storage available is substantially higher than the physical flash in the system due to real-time, inline data reduction.

When additional performance or capacity is required, the XtremIO storage system scales-out. Additional X-Bricks may be added to an existing system, joined together over a redundant, high-availability, ultra-low latency network backbone (supplied by XtremIO). Performance scales linearly such that two X-Bricks will supply twice the consistently low as the system scales.