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Deployment Models for Policy-based High Availability (PBHA) – Part 3c
In Part1 we saw how partitions form the basic building blocks of PBHA, how to create and manage partitions, some considerations… [Read More]
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Deployment Models for Policy-based High Availability (PBHA) – Part 3b
In Part1 we saw how partitions form the basic building blocks of PBHA, how to create and manage partitions, some considerations for “getting it right” on day1 and how to make the partition and its objects into a Highly Available Partition. In Part2 we looked at the different types of HA deployment that are possible, [Read More]
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Deployment Models for Policy-based High Availability (PBHA) – Part 3a
A little later than planned, work keeps getting in the way, but here is Part3a – Availability Characteristics In Part1 we saw how partitions form the basic building blocks of PBHA, how to create and manage partitions, some considerations for “getting it right” on day1 and how to make the partition and its objects into [Read More]
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Deployment Models for Policy-based High Availability (PBHA) – Part2
In Part1 we focused on the basics of configuring and managing Partitions and publishing them as Highly Available objects, by attaching a suitable HA policy. Before we look further into some of the potential deployment options, its worth understanding what it is you are trying to achieve while taking into consideration any physical constraints, such [Read More]
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Deployment Models for Policy-based High Availability (PBHA) – Part1
With the availability of 9.1.0 we have address some of the most commonly requested feature capabilities in PBHA and we are starting to see a lot of requests for help and guidance around potential deployment models and pro’s and con’s of each. [ For example the most of the commonly requested enhancements were expanding volume [Read More]
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Policy-based Replication is replacing Remote Copy [IBM Support Page]
Andy recently published a support page discussing the in’s and out’s of the move from ‘Remote Copy’ based replication to Policy-based Replication, including High Availability. It’s worth a read and has some useful links and the ‘facts’ around support – in that existing platforms and Remote Copy will continue to be supported for the life [Read More]
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Introducing Storage Virtualize 9.1.0
Last week we announced the pending availability (25th July) of v9.1.0 of Storage Virtualize for FlashSystem and SVC platforms. In various “pre-announce” NDA discussions at recent User Groups, a few people queried the version number. Initially I thought people would be asking why v9? However it seems more people were asking “What happened to 9.0?”. [Read More]
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Documentation Changes & Useful Links
So as stated within this article, we are always looking to improve things, and based on some feedback we tweaked the release links accordingly. No longer will you see the Continuous Delivery releases grouped into one, instead each release has its own set of pages, in addition to the LTS releases. Article updated to reflect [Read More]
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2025 North American User Groups – Registration Open
Registration for this years North American Storage Virtualize, Inisghts and Defender User Group events is now open. This year the two events will be held in Chicago and Houston and offer a great chance to meet IBM and industry peers for an in-person event featuring conversations with IBM experts from across the entire IBM Storage [Read More]
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Introducing the FlashSystem C200
Capacity optimized Flash for lower performance use cases Over the last few years we’ve seen the price of NAND based Flash devices get closer and closer to that of the remaining stalwart of the HDD industry – Nearline high capacity 7.2K RPM drives. There is still a delta, but its now possible to look at [Read More]
Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage 