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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 27, 2013

Increase number of compressed volumes in an I/O group to beyond 200

Real-time Compression delivers great value to Storwize V7000 and SVC products. <br /><br />Currently the number of compressed volume copies is limited to 200 per I/O group. This limitation imposes challenges in the field with users that want to increase coverage of compression in their environment by increasing the number of compressed volumes they already use. in many cases this goes beyond the current 200 volumes limit. This is also imposing challenges on new customers that are in the planning stages, and already know they will need more than 200 volume copies per I/O group in their configurations..

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    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
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    Jun 3, 2014

    Even the new 500 volume limit on the DH8 node is still too small for many environments.

  • Guest
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    Jan 16, 2014

    Confirmed that an increase of at least double is intended for the next release.  At that time, please note the hardware requirements for models which will support the increase.