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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 10, 2023

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Energy Saving = « EasyTier » + « Start and Stop » : Automatically Turning off/on the cold data storage

The Idea for energy saving is to turning off the storage (Disk drive or SSD/FCM drive) where cold data is stored and just turning on this storage when data is requested.

IBM EasyTier move cold data on slow drives and move hot data on fast drives.

“About 50% of data stored are never used”

The « Start and Stop » functionality is the ability to automatically turn off/on an array with cold data / to turn off/on the drives where the cold data are stored in order to energy saving.

When data are not used, the drives are turned off

When data is requested, the drives are turn on, easytier move data or not, the system is waiting a defined amount of time (parameter), then the drives are turned off.

The easyTier statistics system determines if the drives could be turned off for a minimum amount of time (parameter).

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  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Oct 20, 2023

    Thank you for submitting this enhancement request. While we would like to implement all the Ideas we receive, for maximum transparency we are closing enhancement requests that don’t currently appear on our near-term roadmap. We may revisit this request in the future.

    We do not have near-term plans to power down drives in FlashSystem. However, in the case of backups and offloading snapshots to secondary storage, that might be a good suggestion.

    We appreciate your input and hope that you will continue to submit enhancement requests, as this feedback is a key component to shaping the future direction of Virtualize and FlashSystem family.

    Thanks,
    FlashSystem Team

    philipclark@ibm.com

  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Mar 11, 2023

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

    Thanks,
    FlashSystem Team

    philipclark@ibm.com

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