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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 11, 2019

Spectrum Virtualize needs a replication Wizard which advises on ALL parameters

Replication setup can be highly impactful if done incorrectly. Most mistakes revolve around either
1) Defaults such as buffer size, partnership bandwidth, and gm link tolerance.
2) Improper FCIP Switch Configuration

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Reply
    |
    Oct 2, 2022

    New policy-based async replication introduced in 3Q22 (8.5.2.1) eliminates manual configuration and tuning.



    Thanks,
    SpecV Team

    philipclark@ibm.com

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SVC/v7000 Global Mirror Change Volume replication Bandwith Regurements tool

Merged
If the customer not using IBM SVC/v7000 allready the bandwidth needed for asynchronous replication with change volumes is not predictable. It is depending of the used snapshot interval and the workload. The transfer size is a 256 KB grain. If only...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered
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Automate Global/Metro Mirror Parameters

Merged
Including Financial, several other customers are having issues with Global Mirror stopping with 1920 error code due to many different issues in different scenarios. We should automate Global/Metro Mirror configuration based on License Capacity pur...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered
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Allow long GM round trip times

Merged
Overcome of the 80 ms round trip time barrier with the new native IP-based replication. Obviously using the Global Mirror Change Volumes, the number of supported change volumes need to be also increased.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered