Combining "An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization" & "Musings of the SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem Support Architect"
ORIGINALLY POSTED 10th July 2018 21,866 views on developerworks Today we have announced the next generation FlashSystem product built with Spectrum Virtualize capabilities at its heart. What's new and exciting about this, well it brings together the best of IBM FlashSystems, Spectrum Virtualize and adds the new dual ported (very important) NVMe Flash drives, both... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 4th July 2018 Hi all, just a quick post to say thanks for visiting, and for all the visits over the last 10 years or so! I hope the content here is helpful both in deciding on your Storage purchases, as well as making the most out of IBM Spectrum Virtualize. Yesterday we... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 10th May 2018 9,873 views on developerworks Hopefully you manage(d) to join the Reducing Storage Costs webinar, but if not, here is a brief look at what we announced today - May 10th. Spectrum Virtualize v8.1.3 Data Reduction Pools - Deduplication I spent some time in my v8.1.2 post discussing how Data Reduction... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 27th February 2018 'Pure dead brilliant, so it is' - Urban Dictionary This week, while recovering from the crazy busy week over in Vegas for IBM Think, I was sent an email by our competitive analysis team which reminded me of why I started this blog back in 2007. In those days, there were only a few of us, Tony Pearson... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 20th February 2018 It's that Tuesday in 1Q where IBM announces a load of new products (SpectrumNAS) and enhancements to the existing products. There is so much being announced today, that I will refer you to Tony's post that covers them all, and I will concentrate on Spectrum Virtualize as usual - for what... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 24th August 2017 10,961 views on developerworks On Tuesday 22nd August we announced the latest code update that will be available soon for the Spectrum Virtualize family.For the first time since 2012 we have bumped the major version number to 8. This signifies some exciting new features that begin with this release in... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 9th March 2017 14,783 views on developerworks I completely missed the announcement a couple of weeks ago for version 7.8.1 of the Spectrum Virtualize software. Traveling too much at the end of last month and forgot to post an update on whats new. This release I am dubbing the ‘customer council’ release. Last... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 13th January 2017 TOP 10 POST - 50,563 views on developerworks Here’s another topic I often get asked about. Things used to be quite simple and I covered this for many years in my Configuring for Optimal Performance series of technical university presentations (also here on the blog - parts 1, 2, 3)... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 10th January 2017 19,712 views on developerworks Spectrum Virtualize Quorum Happy New Year to all. I’ve been getting a few questions relating to quorum devices, and in particular the IP quorum and what happens when various different failure scenarios occur. I thought it was worth detailing things here. So first some background. What... Continue Reading →
