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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 would add consistency between IBM products XIV and SVC. Emerson is a big XIV customer and could be a huge showcase for IBM as first XIV and now SVC and V3700 are gradually replacing their EMC environment with huge additional potential business for TSM and IBM tape libraries. We need to get this done as we are talking potentially 6 PB of managed disk behind SVC in the Emerson environment!
I attached 2 pics.. Its a ease of use administration issue. When its enabled by default like it is, everytime we want to map new luns it goes to LUN0. Then we have to manually move it out. If it was disabled like the XIV attachments it woudl save my admins from constantly moving luns out of LUN0 into other lun #'s. If its easier for a call i am willing to do this.
Attachment (Description): Right clicking on SCSI ID0 allows you to enable it
Attachment (Description): Grayed out SCSI ID 0 on XIV.
We have set that default to SCSI ID0 from the beginning and allow users to change it. What is less clear in this request is what problem having the SCSI ID0 set (or defaulting to it) is causing. Could you describe the OS in use? Is there a boot from SAN conflict it creates? We'll try to give more consideration to a solution based on your use case. Thank you.