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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 15, 2020

Spectrum CDM Deployment on MS Hyper-V Virtualization

We're working with LULU for their SAP HANA requirement and proposing Spectrum CDM to fulfill their App/DB consistent snapshots for the mentioned retention period here

Every 2 hours snapshot for Prod Infra with 7 days retention (12x7= 82 flashcopies per volume)
Every 4 hours snapshot for Non-Prod Infra with 3 days retention (6x3= 18 flashcopies per volume)


During our technical walkthrough with customer, we understood that, they don't have VMware ESXi infra and currently using Windows 2016 Hyper-V for their x86 virtualization needs. But, proposed Spectrum CDM can be deployed as an ESXi image based on sales manual & redbook

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Oct 16, 2020

    This request may not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with the current multi-year strategy. IBM may consider and evaluate any RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.

  • Guest
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    Oct 15, 2020

    We've also converted OVA to VHD/VHDx format and tested the functionality on Hyper-V and it is working.
    However, we would like to have the CDM image for Hyper-V from our site. So that, our support team will not go back to the client and tells that you're running CDM appliance on unsupported Hypervisor platform if there is an issue.

  • Guest
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    Oct 15, 2020

    We've also converted OVA to VHD/VHDx format and tested the functionality on Hyper-V and it is working.
    However, we would like to have the CDM image for Hyper-V from our site. So that, our support team will not go back to the client and tells that you're running CDM appliance on unsupported Hypervisor platform if there is an issue.

  • Guest
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    Oct 15, 2020

    We've also converted OVA to VHD/VHDx format and tested the functionality on Hyper-V and it is working.
    However, we would like to have the CDM image for Hyper-V from our site. So that, our support team will not go back to the client and tells that you're running CDM appliance on unsupported Hypervisor platform if there is an issue.