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Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 24, 2012

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V7000 Spare Capacity distributed among disks in array rather than dedicated hot spare.

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I think that the V7000 would greatly benefit from having distributed spare capacity rather than dedicated hot spares. The XIV benefits greatly from this and being that it's IBM's product, I expect it would be easy to get out there from a legal perspective. This would let all arms be used for I/O, speed rebuild time and help with the "configure for capacity" vs "configure for performance". The drawer size is 24, which was leaving everyone with 7+P, 7+P, 6+P, HSP in each drawer. Implementing this would allow for larger array sizes, more even distribution of IO and build of arrays. With the DS3500 supporting this now, it would only make sense to have it in IBM's midrange, highly visible storage box.

Idea priority Medium
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    |     Jun 12, 2015

    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 Storwize V7000, V5000 and V3000

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM Storwize V7000, V5000 and V3000

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