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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
I spoke with Jamie today and this one is a show stopper. This HBA arrangement is how Emerson has many servers in their SAN today and they do not which to re-design it. Jamie would welcome a phone discussion with SVC product management to discuss this and other enhancement requests. As I understand it, what he is asking for works, it is supported, but the GUI shows degraded mode (even though it really is not degraded) and will not allow a firmware update in that state. This is unacceptable to Emerson.
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!
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