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A new year is upon us and yes, it’s that time again! Another quarterly release of IBM Spectrum Control is here and make no mistake about it, IBM Spectrum Control continues to listen to the storage community. By continuing to provide a better, single storage management platform...
This blog provides an introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition and then describes a procedure that is followed for upgrading and configuring IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition using the installation toolkit. Introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition: The IBM...
This blog provides an introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition and then describes a procedure that is followed for installing and configuring IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition using the installation toolkit. Introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition: IBM...
IBM Flash System A9000 & A9000R sessions at TechU Atlanta 2019 have been carefully categorized and scheduled to provide a coherent build-up of knowledge that I’m sure you will find helpful. Click any of the following categories, to reach the desired topics: Essentials ...
R8.1 of the DS8880 introduced a new configuration option. This provides the ability to configure a storage pool as either large or small extents. The small extent size is significantly smaller than the previous 1GB(FB)/ 1113cylinder (CKD) large extent size being 16MB (FB) / 21 cylinders (CKD). ...
In September 2017 IBM introduced a new class of Flash for the DS8880 with a new 3.8TB High Capacity Flash drive. Earlier this year we continued to increase the High Capacity Flash sizes with the introduction of the 7.6TB High Capacity Flash drive, and now on the 20th November 2018 we have...
Executive Summary The I/O Operations (I/O Ops) component of System Automation for z/OS (SAFOS) has been used by z/OS clients to manage the FICON I/O switch configuration, make configuration changes and display status information. In July of 2014 the IBM System Automation for z/OS product team...
Last year IBM super-charged its FlashSystem A9000 & A9000R all-flash enterprise block storage offering with HyperSwap , allowing customers to exceed the built-in five-nines availability, as far as getting IBM guarantee for zero interruption to data availability . With HyperSwap 2-copy...
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Data centers are getting wider day by day. In the initial days they were limited to a single physical site. As the adoption grown, data spread across multiple data centers. These data centers are geographically separated by larger distances. Ethernet plays a key role in the next generation data...
Two exciting announcements from IBM Storage Networking: The new IBM Storage Networking SAN128B-6 switch and a new 64-port Gen 6 blade for the b-type line of directors, delivering the highest density Gen 6 switch and blade in the market. As we rapidly approach a new generation of all-flash...