IBM System Storage Ideas Portal
This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).
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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.
IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.
ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.
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
We are making some changes around copies in the coming year related to vVol with VMware also. We encourage you to revisit the specific needs you might be lacking in SVC/Storwize at that time with FlashCopy. Please contact a sales rep to review our roadmap.
This is a requirement to SVC such that the space efficient flashcopies and clones of a source volume does not have dependencies. Flashcopy Manager product on the Tivoli side does not control how the flashcopies are done on the hardware; instead it connects the applications and drives hardware snapshots (on SVC for example) for application-aware copies for backup purpose. Devon Helms from the SVC team can help with this RFE in the SVC land.