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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 11, 2014

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Need more than 16 WWPN Support Per WWPN

The customer needs to place an Emc VMax3 behind the SVC. The VMax has 128 WWPN and SVC only supports 16..
Customer: "One of my concerns with SVC in front of VMAX storage is the limited number of paths that are supported (16). THIS IS NOT A BANDWIDTH ISSUE.

In a fully configured VMAX there are 64 Front End (FA) ports. There are actually 128 but we only use 64. Each of the 64 ports has a front-end processor that handles the I/O requests that come in to that port. Each processor can handle a certain number of IOPS. In order to get maximum performance out of a VMAX you have to use all the FA ports - think Horizontal Scaling, or Scale-Out."

Idea priority Urgent
  • 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 17, 2014

    We were in the same scenario, it is a complete waste of FA ports for VMAX(s) and other systems including DS with this limitation

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