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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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V7000 controller upgrade utility

With the announcement of the new V7000 nodes there is no easy way to upgrade to a new controller. I have a customer that has had to turn of compression because they were exceeding the performance of the 1 CPU assigned for system usage. And there i...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Integration between Clusters Oracle and Microsoft and IBM SVC Replication

We have defined a transformation project in Strategic Outsourcing for migration of Petabytes of SAN Disk from OEM disk boxes to SVC (Tiered backend). Customer has implemented several Oracle Solaris 10 Clusters with Hitachi Replication. These clust...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC/V7000 GUI call home paging

The SVC/v7000 GUI when a drive fails, the unit calls home and pages as it should. However, the drive most of the time cannot be replaced immediately for several reasons such as waiting on parts, rebuilds, or better time of day. What happens is tha...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FCM's IBMVSS needs to be able to specify various grain size's to SVC during the flash copy

The Flash Copy manager application passes in a 64KB grain size to the SVC on Flash Copies by default. We are currently at SVC code 7*. This uses considerably more bit-map memory than the 256KB grain size than in previous SVC code levels. IBMVSS ( ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC Copy on Write

Would like SVC functionality to have the ability to change a relation in full mode to a copy on write relationship
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC default clean rate

When a fairly complex flash copy tree, using 0 copy/clean (thin provisioned) we have run into problems when stopping a flash copy consistancy group while the background clean process kicks in. If we were to enable a cleaning rate other than 0, the...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Life of a LUN/ Storage

Ensure event logs handle showing 'life of a LUN/WWPN/host' type view which shows history of the resource.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Alerts for overdriving I/O on I/O groups, mdisks, and I/O ports

User study with internal IBM GTS found that users need alerts for overdriving I/O on I/O groups, mdisks, and I/O ports.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Show how much storage a host has

adding "Capacity" field to host properties to show how much storage a given host has on this system
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC - increased Mdisk size support EMC storage arrays

Customer request for support for >2TB Volumes from EMC Storage arrays. including support for VNX2 storage platform.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration