ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 12th June 2015 Here's a quick one that I was reminded of today... The EasyTier 3 feature was introduced in 7.3.0.0 and introduced a number of new EasyTier features, but a few of them relied on knowledge of the maximum throughput and IOPs capability for each managed disk. On Storwize RAID arrays, this... Continue Reading →

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 6th July 2015 Hi again. I wanted to mention a feature that we released recently which we are calling the SVC Standby Engine.  Unfortunately this feature is not available for Storwize systems, so it's probably not worth you reading this, but let me know if it's the kind of feature you would want... Continue Reading →

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 9th October 2015 There's a particular business partner (I'll be shocked if he isn't the first person to comment on this post) who has asked for a "what is clustering" session at almost every one of the UK user groups for what seems like a couple of years now.  I really couldn't see... Continue Reading →

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 10th February 2016 Hi All, I got this question from a customer and thought it was worth a discussion. The short answer is yes you can perform both compression and encryption on data - as long as you do the steps in the correct order. The problem is that encrypted data is basically... Continue Reading →

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 17th March 2016 Hi, There have been a number of DRAID questions on the forums recently, so we thought it was worth giving you some extra details about the benefits of DRAID. Ian Boden has provided the following information, and if you ask nicely he may come back and give us some more... Continue Reading →

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 13th June 2016 Hi All, I was at the US user group last week - and this topic came up quite a lot.  The main reason that we started discussing R5 versus R6 is because the development team are currently recommending that all Distributed RAID arrays be configured as R6, and people are... Continue Reading →