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Created on May 10, 2018

Support for more host site WWPN per I/O Group for IBM San Volume Controller

The customer has exhausted the WWPN hot ports inside an IBM SVC I/O Group, which his 2048. We want to know if it would be feasible to increase this value or if this is something that is technically not feasible.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Philip Clark
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    Nov 22, 2022

    Delivered in 1Q22 (8.5.0)

    Now supports up to 2048 hosts and 8192 WWPNs per I/O group. Cluster limit is unchanged.

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SVC/Storwize Host objects & FC hosts limits

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The SVCs and V7000s are used in a VMControl environment. The AIX LPARs each have 4 or 12 HBA ports. With VMControl, each HBA port is registered as an individual host object to SVC/V7000; so for a single server with 4 HBA ports, 4 individual hosts ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered