Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage
Combining "An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization" & "Musings of the SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem Support Architect"
ORIGINALLY POSTED 18th June 2008 16,511 views on developerworks I see that Hu thought he'd better make up some mumbo-jumbo about their 'chubby-provisioning' solution. I did post a comment but, as usual, his moderating means he ignores comments he doesn't like. I'd point you back to my discussion about random 4K writes randomly across a... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 13th June 2008 13,095 views on developerworks As I promised yesterday this post is devoted to the technical details behind the new Space-Efficient Virtual Disk (SEV) and Space-Efficient FlashCopy (SEFC) functions available for no extra charge upon upgrade to the 4.3.0 software release of SVC. This post covers : SEV Implementation Details SEV... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 12th June 2008 14,964 views on developerworks So at last I can explain one of the reasons why we've all been so busy for the last six months with the somewhat landmark 4.3.0 release of our SVC software. Its been a while since we released a new I/O function, in fact over 18... Continue Reading →
Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage 