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Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
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Created on Oct 29, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

Snapshot and volume management improvements

A recent sale to a non-IBM customer has shown just how poor our basic management capabilities are within the GUI.
We were compared to their 5 year old Nimble array and we did not stand up well.


Snapshot scheduling; Simple snapshots that are created on a scheduled basis should not required another application such as CSM or an expensive option such as CDM. Simple management such as "create a snapshot every hour between start-time and end-time" and not have to create 12 schedules in CSM.

Simple replicated volume creation. We should be able to create a volume and have the option on a single GUI to select 'replicated', which would setup the paring. Having to create the volume on both arrays and then create the paring shouldn't be required in the modern operation of an advanced array.

Replication should be an option at the pool level so any volumes that are created are automatically replicated. We should be able to create pools with different service classes such as; gold (sync-replicated) silver (a-sync replicated) bronze (local)

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Oct 2, 2022

    New policy-based async replication was released in 3Q22 (8.5.2.1)

  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Jul 9, 2022

    New volume group based Snapshot 2.0 was released in 2Q22 (8.5.1)

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 16, 2020

    For Snapshot scheduling also see: https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SCSI-I-1024


    Simplified replication management is tracked here.

    Thank you for your support of Spectrum Virtualize. Your comments and feedback are important to us.

    - Philip

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