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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 12, 2018

Ability to move a volume's iogrp if still replicated

At present if a volume is mapped to a replication relationship then the non disruptive volume move feature can't be used as the relationship must be removed prior to moving the caching iogrp for both the master and the auxillary volume. It would be better if there was no requirement to delete the relationship

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Philip Clark
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    Jun 22, 2023

    Delivered in 8.6.0 (2Q23)

    This is one of a set of enhancements in 8.6.0 to enable non-disruptive migration from remote copy (MM or GM) to new policy-based replication without losing DR:

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/flashsystem-7x00/8.6.x?topic=ppbr-planning-migrate-from-metro-mirror-global-mirror-policy-based-replication


  • Guest
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    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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Need the ability to change the IO group of a volume that is in a remote mirror relationship without having to resync

Merged
Today for volumes that have a remote mirror relationship. We have 2 options when we want to Option 1: disruptive (requires down time from the host)change the I/O group.Stop the host I/Ostop the replicationRemove the remote mirrorchange the I/O gro...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered