In this continuing blog series, I'll delve into the IBM Knowledge Center for IBM Spectrum Control to highlight some pearls of information that might help you get the most out of the product. Some of the following documentation topics are new for version 5.2.14, and some you might not have seen...
IBM DS8880 now supports VMware SCSI UNMAP primitive. With this, storage space is returned to IBM DS8880 for another use when space is released from vSphere layer. Using this VMware's VAAI SCSI UNMAP primitive, the VMware host notifies the storage device about freed space on a thin-provisioned...
In today’s storage environments, data can get very comfortable when users, applications, and services are not moving it around. Sometimes the way this data storage looks in an environment can be hidden, not identifiable. Non-efficient storage management coupled with high performance maintenance...