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Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 19, 2018

RELATED IDEAS

vdisk_protection with Spectrum Protect Snapshot

The vdisk_protection_time and vdisk_protection_enabled, are two parameters provided in Spectrum Virtualize and Storwize to prevent accidental deletion and unmapping of a vdisk.

Unfortunately, this vdisk_protection function is unusable if any automation with additional products e.g. Spectrum Protect Snapshot dynamically creating, deleting vdisks and dynamically map and unmap vdisks from a host.

It should be possible to disable the vdisk_protection for specific storage pools so FlashCopy target volumes can be dynamically created, deleted, mapped and unmapped as long as they are created in such storage pools that are excluded from vdisk_protection.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     Oct 29, 2019

    Enabling orchestrated hardware snapshots, integrated with strategic IBM toolsets is essential. Particularly with the Accelerate line, the "redirect on write" snapshot technology, at the storage level, dramatically reduces the amount of capacity necessary to shift to a "flash-2-flash-2-cloud" protection ecosystem (cyber protection, air-gapping, and rapid restore). Any time we are moving (streaming) data around, we are adding latency to an ecosystem that really doesn't need it.

  • Guest
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    |     Dec 20, 2018

    @IBM Development: this is the same RfE created by me (ID: 120114) in the TCC group. It was previously declined by development but should be considered to reopen.

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