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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 17, 2020

Expansion of volumes with a FlashCopy mapping

Currently you have to stop and delete the FlashCopy mapping, if like to expand the volume capacity!

Today we run a cirtial process to replace a volume in the LVM / ZFS-Pool to expand capacity. After the process is finished, Easy-Tier must learn anew the hot extents....

On Windows we have to delete the FlashCopy mapping before we can expand the volume. Thereby we lose the possibility for a fast recovery!

The same situation is with Global-Mirror-Releationships....
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=14433

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Sep 22, 2021

    Delivered in 8.4.1 (2Q21)

  • Guest
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    Jun 8, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM Spectrum Virtualize / SAN Volume Controller
    Component - Product functionality
    Operating system - Other
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Storage TCC - Private Requests
    Component - Other
    Operating system - Other
    Source - None