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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 3, 2013

RELATED IDEAS

Client side knowledge of mpools for SVC mdisks.

This request was originally submitted in FITS via MR0317085124 in 2008. It was rejected due to the assignee not knowing who to send it to. It was resubmitted in 2013 via MR0829133927.

I've now been told that this should be submitted via this tool

Our technical sales rep has told us that their no way to know what mpool a vdisk is part of. This complicates the inventory to the customer, since there is no easy way from the client system to know if the disk was allocated to a subsystem class the customer mandates.

I.E. was the mpool located on a 2107 SAN unit, was it raid 1+0, etc.

Again, the customer needs a client side method to determine the backside storage that was used to satisfy a client side LUN request.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     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 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

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 10, 2013

    The options for obtaining this information include IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center (Tivoli Storage Productivity Center), but if that's not a feasible option you can just a couple of commands on your host with the SVC CLI.  Note that the LUN has a 64-character unique ID.  With a query from the host side, that line could tell you which host pool it's in.  An associated Pool ID, as requested, is not part of our near term plan for the SVC product.   Please contact your IBM representative for more follow-up information if required.

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