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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 6, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Support for VMID

Increases Visibility of VM traffic: VM-ID tags can be used by the Hypervisor and FC switches to understand the data flowing across
its environment to better monitor outages or determining heavier traffic at different points along the path to help mitigate these
situations

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2023

    VMID+ is only available for certain blades and switches.Otherwise, the storage itself must support that functionality to get that information out.

  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Jun 9, 2023

    Can you provide more information about what benefit you are looking for by enabling VMID?

    Brocade switches support a feature called VMID+ (https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/fibre-channel-networking/fabric-os/fabric-os-admini[…]h-VM-Insight-Capability/Flow-Monitoring-with-VMID-91x.html) and VMID+ can be enabled by the switch without the storage controller having to be VMID aware.

    Enabling VMID on FlashSystem will not provide any additional information than VMID+ on Brocade switch.

    Storage Insights also collects VMware statistics via data collector, which is another useful tool for end-to-end troubleshooting.

  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Feb 8, 2023

    Thank you for submitting this Idea. We are currently evaluating your request.

    Thanks,
    FlashSystem Team

    philipclark@ibm.com

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