Category: 2012
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Introducing the IBM Storwize V3700
ORIGINALLY POSTED 7th November 2012 TOP 10 Post – 62,183 views on developerworks As you may have seen, today IBM announced the next product in the Storwize family, the IBM Storwize V3700. The Stowize V3700 builds on the amazing success that the Storwize V7000 has seen in the last two years- and of course SVC…
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The problems/joys/implications of more storage.
ORIGINALLY POSTED 3rd November 2012 15,916 views on developerwortks Last week I had a couple of meetings in Manchester (UK) with some SVC and V7000 end users, as well as the chance to pop in and say hi to our team in the IBM Manchester labs. About two days before heading up the M6 I…
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Configuring IBM Storwize and SVC for Optimal Performance – Part2
ORIGINALLY POSTED 17th August 2012 TOP 5 POST – 77,440 views on developerworks Thanks to everyone who responded to my Part 1 post, I’m amazed at how many people must read what I have to say! Based on the number of you that have either spoken to me in person, or emailed. I’m glad to…
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IBM to acquire TMS (Texas Memory Systems)
ORIGINALLY POSTED 17th August 2012 13,795 views on developerworks As you may or may not have seen, IBM has agreed to acquire Texas Memory Systems :http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/38594.wss This has many implications (all good) for SVC, Storwize V7000, and Pure Systems. Better integration with existing RamSan products, and of course integrated versions of these products moving forward. Watch…
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FCoE, RTC and much much more…
ORIGINALLY POSTED 14th June 2012 25,166 views on developerworks On Friday we will release SVC software version 6.4 – it used to be simple, I could just reference SVC, but of course the same software package can be installed on V7000 systems. At present V7000 Unified systems remain at 6.3 features and functions. You’ve probably…
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V7000 (Gen1) SPC-1 Benchmark
ORIGINALLY POSTED 14th June 2012 24,016 views on developerwortks. One of the key benefits of the Storwize V7000 product is its built in Virtiualization capabilites. Or as some vendors like to call it Federation? Its been almost 9 years since we first released SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and in that time, its been through 6…
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Configuring IBM Storwize V7000 and SVC for Optimal Performance – Part1
DISCLAIMER – Please note that the RAID discussion, in terms of number of arrays matching cores is no longer relevant if you are using Distributed RAID (DRAID) – where a single DRAID array can use all the available cores. BW Dec 2019 For more updated DRAID information see ‘Configuring RAID/DRAID Best Practice’ ORIGINALLY POSTED 20th…
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Breaking the 500,000 IOPs SPC Barrier
ORIGINALLY POSTED 3rd February 2012 20,233 views on developerworks Well, i guess I should first wish, any readers I still have left a Happy New Year.Not only are we now into 2012, but hey its February too, where did January go… must be some kind of temporal locality thing going on (private joke – sorry,…
Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage 