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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 System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) / Spectrum Virtualize
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Tivoli
Product family - Storage
Product - IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) / Spectrum Virtualize
This request is well understood. As an interim solution, we highly recommend you read this solution for "Host Groups" described in Q2 on this page: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20SmartCloud%20Virtual%20Storage%20Center/page/Ask%20HOW
We intend to satisfy this other request also as part of the functionality delivered herein: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=40448 Therefore it's been closed as a duplicate of this RFE.
SUMMARY: functionality to define a "Cluster" on SVC (original RFE referred to this as a "Storage Group"). This is needed to support our larger VMware clusters and some of our Linux clusters. In addition to what is being requested in 26871, we need the ability to allow for some non-shared vDisks to be mapped to individual hosts that belong to this same cluster. For us, these are typically going to be for our Linux hosts.
USE CASE: We have Linux clusters that have a large number of shared vDisks. The servers also need to have some non-shared vDisks mapped to them. We are often asked to add more capacity (vDisks) to the cluster as a whole.
Any update on this request? Have several customer asking about this item.