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Recommend 4 GB extent size - V7000 & Spectrum Virtualize during DRP Pool Creation

By default the Extent size is being shown to use as 1 GB while creating Data Reduction Pools (DRP) on Storwize & Spectrum Virtualize products. By using 1 GB extent size, the physical usable cap is only 128 TB, and beyond that we can not use it.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TDPO Client Sun Solaris 11 x86

We need a new Version of TDPO Client for Sun Solaris 11 x86.Our TSM client instances are on version 6.3.3.100
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 4 Delivered

When updating SVC firmware in Enhanced Stretch, monitor volume mirror states before continuing update

In an SVC enhanced stretched cluster environment. When updating the SVC firmware. The customer performed an automatic update. All volumes are mirrored and in sync.1st node got updated and waited 30 minutes, most of the volumes returned in sync dur...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Copy export cannot be operated unless premig queue has not be initialized

System: z/OS V2.1Hw:TS7720T(3957-VEB)Micro Level: 8.33.3.14.0 Our customer has more than 900,000 lvols.When premig queue initialization, we can not use copy export function about 5 days.Our customer is using copy export for disaster recovery.Not w...
almost 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Delivered

Automatic Disk Replacement

We met with IBM yesterday (Christopher Maestas) and he mentioned a feature within ESS that we would like to have accelerated. It's the capability of doing automatic disk replacement without any admin intervention. That is something we really would...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 2 Delivered

Spetrum Virtualize default vdisk protection to off from 7.4 onwards

VDISK Protection Default (vdisk_protection_enabled  yes /no) Current default is NO starting with V7.4 onwards, Volume protection ensures that some CLI actions (most of those that either explicitly or implicitly remove host-volume mappings or ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Create RAID Wizard Defaults to RAID5 and allows storage from multiple pools without warning

The Create RAID Array Wizard in Spectrum Virtualize defaults to RAID5 creation. It also allows you to select storage from any number of pools without warning. This should be warned against; pools that are too large will increase the failure domain...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Prevent Harmful actions related to NPIV ports

For NPIV prevent going from transition to disabled or transition to enabled mode on iogroups . If there are servers/hosts with any paths to both physical and virtual WWPNs  This will cause an impact and possible outage.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Volume Format default to enabled

The volume format was default disabled till 7.5. Enabled is now the default and a 1TB volume can take 6 days to complete with the default syncrate. Changing the sync rate can reduce this to 4.5 hours. This can cause severe impacts to pre-existing ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

validation of HDS new code level: 88-08-04-x0/00-M101

We are using HDS G370/G900 with the SVC (we are running 8.3.1.4) and got from HDS an new code level:88-08-04-x0/00-M101 we request the validation of this code for the SVC
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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