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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 13, 2018

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Storwize - simplify flashcopy restoration process

Currently in the event of restoring a volume using a flashcopy it is required for a reverse flashcopy to be created and then the new mapping to be started with the -restore flag.
This requires a degree of understanding of how the technology that is implemented that would be better to be abstracted via a rollback function.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Jan 12, 2024

    Volume group snapshots restore-in-place delivered in 4Q23 (8.6.2)

  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |     Jul 9, 2022

    New volume group based Snapshot 2.0 was released in 2Q22 (8.5.1)

    Restore is to a new location (based on clone or thin clone) and at a volume group level instead of individual volumes and flashcopy mappings.

    Restoring volumes in-place (rollback) via GUI will be supported in a future release.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 17, 2020

    I like this RFE because reverse flashcopy is a great feature that could greatly promote the product. I think this should be build into the GUI so that you with an easy rightclick would be able to revert your volumes to the original state before the snapshot.
    Today we have started to do this for a very big database which is spread out on 8 volumes. Doing this manually results handling many relations and consistency groups. This should be handeled in the background.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 30, 2018

    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
    Component - Product functionality
    Operating system - Other
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Storage TCC - Private Requests
    Component - Other
    Operating system - Other
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council

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Add function to create reverse fcmaps for all fcmaps in a consistency group

Merged
Add a function (command) to create reverse flash copy maps of all the flash copy maps in a given consistency group. For example if consistency group CG1 contains the following maps:source_vol1-> source_vol1_01source_vol2 -> source_vol2_01sou...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered
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v9000 simplify snapshot restore

Merged
Provide a simple/safe way to perform a snapshot restore.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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