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How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

  • 1.  How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Mon May 20, 2024 02:46 PM

    On my FS7300 I am seeing the following image.  How do I translate that to see recommended firmware at Supported Drive Types and Firmware Levels for IBM Storage Virtualize Family of Products



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    Robert Berendt IBMChampion
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  • 2.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 01:15 AM

    Hi Robert,

    to find exact match in that table on IBM website, you need to look for "product id" field for your drive - e.g. with CLI "lsdrive 0 | grep product_id".

    As that's an FCM, that's a bit easier - just search for "3_" firmware in the table to find recommendations for FCM3.



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  • 3.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 07:28 AM

    That helped, now to get it added to the GUI...



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  • 4.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 05:01 AM

    Hi Robert,

    What the firmware version of your FS7300 ? On my FS5200 (8.3.1.5), i've no problem to retrieve Model number from pool->internal storage. As Sergei says the cli command works fine on my FS5200 .

    Regards



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    Virgile VATIN
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  • 5.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 07:31 AM

    I am on 8.5.0.10

    I tried Customize Columns.  However none of them have what is in product_id.

    I'm thinking of going to 8.6.0.3.  Does anyone know if that addresses this?



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  • 6.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 07:44 AM

    I created a new idea.  Please vote for it if you think it's worthwhile.  https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SCSI-I-1312

    Add product_id to display on gui | IBM System Storage Ideas Portal



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    Robert Berendt IBMChampion
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  • 7.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 09:07 AM
    Edited by Virgile VATIN Tue May 21, 2024 09:08 AM

    Yes, this option is also on 8.6.0.3, i made a mistake, i look at my old FS5030, when i wrote the firmware level.

    Regards



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  • 8.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 09:38 AM

    I have that also.  However is it a column available on this screen?



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  • 9.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 10:19 AM

    There is no column with Product ID in 8.6.0.3

    Br



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  • 10.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 12:19 PM

    Then perhaps the idea I submitted will remedy that.

    Thank you for letting me know.



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  • 11.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 01:24 PM

    I already voted your idea to have the column for the product_id the GUI. Meanwhile "lsdrive -gui" can show the desired column:

    [18:22:59] RHEL8p8-gdlsvt7a-11:~ # rcc lsdrive -gui -nohdr| awk '{ print $1 " " $9 " " $8 " " $12}'
    0 1014063A IBM-A072 SN1OSN1O
    1 1014063A IBM-A072 SN1OSN1O
    2 1014063A IBM-A072 SN1OSN1O
    3 1014063A IBM-A072 SN1OSN1O
    4 1014063A IBM-A072 SN1OSN1O
    5 1014063A IBM-A072 SN1OSN1O
    6 1014063A IBM-A072 SN1OSN1O
    7 1014063A IBM-A072 SN1OSN1O
    8 1014063A IBM-A072 SN1OSN1O
    9 1014063A IBM-A072 SN1OSN1O
    10 1014063A IBM-A072 SN1OSN1O



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    Luis Lopez
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  • 12.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 02:33 PM

    IBM_FlashSystem:FS7300USSI:rob>lsdrive -gui -nohdr| awk '{ print $1 " " $9 " " $8 " " $12}'
    rbash: awk: command not found
    IBM_FlashSystem:FS7300USSI:rob>rcc lsdrive -gui -nohdr| awk '{ print $1 " " $9 " " $8 " " $12}'
    rbash: awk: command not found
    rbash: rcc: command not found



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    Robert Berendt IBMChampion
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  • 13.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 02:37 PM
    Edited by Luis Lopez Tue May 21, 2024 02:40 PM

    Sorry, rcc is a wrapper that handles the ssh connection to the cluster. It should be then:

    [19:37:39] RHEL8p8-gdlsvt7a-11:~ # ssh superuser@<IP address> lsdrive -gui -nohdr| awk '{ print $1 " " $9 " " $8 " " $12}'
    0 101406E5 IBM-D072 4_1_4
    1 101406E5 IBM-D072 4_1_4
    2 101406E5 IBM-D072 4_1_4
    3 101406E5 IBM-D072 4_1_4
    4 101406E5 IBM-D072 4_1_4
    5 101406E5 IBM-D072 4_1_4
    6 101406E5 IBM-D072 4_1_4
    7 101406E5 IBM-D072 4_1_4
    8 101406E5 IBM-D072 4_1_4
    9 101406E5 IBM-D072 4_1_4

    In the worst case, you can issue "lsdrive -gui" and dump the whole output to MS excel to easily read it.



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  • 14.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 02:58 PM

    I started a putty session onto my fs7300.

    Then I just tried 

    lsdrive -gui -nohdr| awk '{ print $1 " " $9 " " $8 " " $12}'
    rbash: awk: command not found



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    Robert Berendt IBMChampion
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  • 15.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Tue May 21, 2024 06:10 PM

    I see! Sorry Robert, I should have mentioned I use linux in the computer I use to access my Flashsystems. If using windows, I think the simpler approach is to issue "lsdrive -gui" and paste the whole output in MS excel or a text editor with, so the columns get created automatically 

    MS excel

    Notepad


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    Luis Lopez
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  • 16.  RE: How do I translate what my FS7300 says my drives are to IBM's site?

    Posted Wed May 22, 2024 07:47 AM

    I thought it was something like that, where it did some of the command local and some remote.



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    Robert Berendt IBMChampion
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