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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 8, 2017

Increase Flashcopy memory limit

Increase the maximum Flashcopy memory limit beyond 2048MiB.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Philip Clark
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    Sep 23, 2022

    New volume group based snapshots in 2Q22 (8.5.1) take advantage of built-in scheduler and increased bitmap memory.



    Thanks,
    SpecV Team

    philipclark@ibm.com

  • Guest
    Reply
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    Jul 6, 2021

    Was closed by mistake. Increase FlashCopy bitmap limit is still Planned for Release.

  • Guest
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    Nov 24, 2020

    Delivered in 8.4.0 (4Q 2020)

0 MERGED

IBM Spectrum Copy Data management policy to allow for the change of the grain size for the flash copy's to be created

Merged
To allow for new policy or to change the grain size of the flash copy on current IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management backup policy This to allow for more flash copy's to be done so that you don't hit the 2GB bit map caching limitation
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered