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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Storage Insights
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 21, 2023

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Display freeze time for Remote Copy relationships in Storage Insights and allow thresholds to be set for freeze time so alerts can be sent when freeze time is more than a certain number of minutes out of sync

This idea is being submitted to let IBM know that they need to find a way to add alert definitions in Storage Insights that would allow administrators to monitor the freeze time for Remote Copy groups and change/set the threshold so administrators can be alerted when Remote Copy groups get too far out of sync.

This is needed so companies that use these IBM Storage devices can be notified when replication destinations are far out of sync with the source.

Storwize Storage devices currently have no way of alerting when the freeze time for Remote Copy groups is more than a certain number of minutes out of sync.

If our replication link is working but transferring at a very slow rate, we are never notified that there are any problems, even if Remote Copy groups get many hours or days out of sync.

We need to keep our freeze time within a certain time range, and need to know if the freeze time gets too far out of sync, but there is no way to be notified when that happens currently.

 

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 23, 2023

    Hello Michael, let me explain my comment a little more.

    Today, Spectrum Virtualize does not share the freeze time in a format suitable for the consumption of Storage Insights. Although this available within Spectrum Virtualize, it's not something Storage Insights can alert on, as you're requesting.

    The Spectrum Virtualize team have been working on new asynchronous replication technology to replace Global Mirror, making that available in 3Q 2022. This technology will self govern based on the bandwidth and move from Global Mirror like behaviour to Global Mirror with Change Volume like behaviour depending on the available bandwidth/resource, removing the need for the user to manage this automatically whilst retaining host responsiveness. This new technology, called Policy Based Replication is the future direction of the Spectrum Virtualize products and at the moment we're working to add support for that into Storage Insights.

    Moving forward both products wil be investing in the new technology. From a Storage Insights perspective this is about getting support for what's available at the moment, along with improvements that the Spectrum Virtualize team are planning through 2024. There are no plans to enhance the older Global Mirror or Remote Copy technology, including the changes you're asking for. We will of course be supporting the existing technology in terms of any required security updates and bug fixes.

    I hope this helps, let me know if you'd like more discussion on this and we can discuss on a call with my Spectrum Virtualize peer.

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  • Guest
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    |     Mar 23, 2023

    Thank you for this suggestion, as you point out, it's similar to SSI-I-46. We've not addressed this issue because Spectrum Virtualize does not share the freeze time information in a real time manner that would allow us to alert on.

    The Spectrum Virtualize team are working on improving the replication technology and released Policy Based Replication in 3Q22. This dynamically manages the async relationship based on bandwidth. Storage Insights is working to support Policy Based Replication, with no plans from either team to go back and add enhancements to the older replication technology.

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