ECE reports a pdisk as missing/replace. So customer needs to replace this broken pdisk. But "mmvdisk pdisk replace --prepare --recovery-group RGNAME --pdisk PDISKNAME" command failed with error "Location ...
In this SpectrumCast we turn the mic over to Tricia Jiang who, correctly, lets us all know that there may be some data that doesn't need to be backed up. As with everything in IT, it becomes a balancing ...
Organically growing enterprise AI operations can be challenging. Balancing peak demands for training with ongoing inference workloads and data preparation tasks requires flexibility of infrastructure, ...
IBM Technical University (IBM TechU) 2021 is a virtual event that will run from October 25-28, 2021. You can register here: https://www.ibm.com/training/events/vtechu2021 and find the agenda here: ...
On this week's SpectrumCast, our guest, Pete Brey, Director of Market Development for Red Hat, speaks with the team about how Red Hat fits into the IBM point of view of the six key capabilities for architecting ...
This video explains how a slow drain device can affect a storage network. Also see this related video on how buffer credits work.
Like most applications, especially those regarding storage and security, IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (SKLM) needs to have all the things required from it stated and planned out before ...
The ability to automate and orchestrate recoveries, especially when in the thick of a recovery, especially a critical recovery, can be the difference between ensuring you meet your SLAs or not. It can ...
A new IBM Redpaper was published as a public draft. This paper covers best practices for implementing an IBM c-Type or Cisco fabric https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp5632.html ...
Watch this video to learn about the Spectrum Virtualize Port Masking feature and why you should use it.
IBM TS4500 with LTO-9 In a recent article by well-known tech pundit Henry Newman proposed that tape was not viable as a stronger last line of defense against cyber attacks, specifically ransomware. ...
This week Tricia, Sean, Randy and Steve talk about the 5th of 6 core capabilities that are required to build out a data resilient environment. We dive into the different types of air gapping as well as ...
Development and operations teams are moving to containers because they are nimble and agile, enabling great portability, application availability, and require few system resources. According to an IDC ...
Call Home Connect Cloud is a web-based client user interface that has been created to allow client access to call home data of their IBM systems through IBM Support: https://www.ibm.com/support/call-home-connect/cloud/ ...
This week the team and I talked about one of the topics we know most about, data recovery and the need to have multiple layers of recover for your environment. The first question is why? The reality ...
IBM Storage Insights is built to deliver almost immediate results, then provide additional insights as it learns about your storage environment. It helps keep your storage online with automated identification ...
Break silos, globally access, drive agility Organizations are facing growing amounts of data and at the same time more concurrent applications and workloads located on multiple platforms in multiple locations ...
IBM SAN16C-R Extension Switch (MTM 8977-R16): What IBM SAN16C-R can do for your business IBM Storage Networking SAN16C-R , the next generation of the highly flexible, industry-leading IBM Storage ...
Data resilience is one of the most talked about topics in IT this year. Customers are starting to understand the value of their data better and are also understanding how any attack on their data can ...
This week we talk about the second most important capability when developing a robust data resilience environment, the ability to Identify and Monitor your storage for malicious activity. This week, ...