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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 12, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Improved reporting to support daily operations

Customers have requested a better way to report and manage space within a pool. The example given was:
It is very difficult to work out how much space a snapshot or a series of snapshots are consuming in a pool with IBM storage, other vendors make this easy'.
I have experimented with compresstimator and the space saving report within the GUI and these do seem to offer some level of granularity, but the format could be improved as it seems to report on all the volumes in the array.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Nov 25, 2022

    Reopened

    It is improved because you can click on a volume group and see all the snapshots associated and how much capacity they consume. But the GUI doesn't elevate this up to the main dashboard or show a breakdown of how all the available capacity is being used in the pool. So there is definitely more we can do.

    Keep the feedback coming.


    Thanks,
    SpecV Team

    philipclark@ibm.com

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 24, 2022

    Hi, I am not sure that volume group based Snapshots was what I was alluding to when I submitted this idea. This is really about better reporting of the space that is being used or is available from a volume and a group. I am happy to take another look at the Snapshot V2 and test the reporting.

  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Nov 24, 2022

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

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