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Status Under review
Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 27, 2025

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Make "Hold service state" persist across power cycles.

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Currently, at a remote location, there is no way to make a FlashSystem stay offline across power cycles. There are cases where power maintenance activities take place, and it is expected that power may go up & down multiple times. Having a FlashSystem 'ride through' this is risky, as there are chances of power coming up, FlashSystem going into boot up of the Storwize code stack, and having power go back down during that Storwize boot. Currently, the only way to avoid that is to physically pull the power cords from the physical system, which is not always feasible at remote sites.

If the Hold service state status was made to persist across power cycles, then the FlashSystem hardware would start up when power came back online, but booting of the Storwize software stack would not automatically start. This would be a sufficient workaround to a storage system power off that needs to last persistently through the power maintenance. (Shut down the cluster, place both nodes in service state, place both nodes in Hold service state, and they would STAY that way until they are manually taken out of service state through the SA GUI.)

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