Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage
Combining "An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization" & "Musings of the SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem Support Architect"
Spectrum Virtualize 7.7.1 & All-flash ORIGINALLY POSTED 23rd Augudst 2016 12,008 views on developerworks Just to make life as difficult as possible for the development and test teams, and not content with refreshing the lower end Storwize V5000 products earlier this year, today IBM is announcing a refresh to the Storwize V7000, FlashSystem V9000 and... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 11th October 2011 Top 20 Post : 28,837 views on developerworkls Its just about year to the day since IBM announced the IBM Storwize V7000, today we've announed the next major step in the evolution of the product, and the SVC code base at its heart. The IBM Storwize V7000 Unified. This integrates... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 9th May 2011 17,074 views on developerworks As hinted by my last post, the next release of SVC software is on its way, available in early June, along with the new optional 10Gbit iSCSI support. Since SVC, and V7000 are essentially the same thing, just packaged in different hardware vehicles, all of the... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 19th March 2011 17,483 views on developerworks At the risk of re-gurgitating recent Storage benchmarketing scars and rumblings, its probably escaped most people that we just published another Storwize V7000 SPC-1 benchmark. Why another I hear you ask, well the first one we published was back in November when the product first GA'd.... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 1st November 2010 14,207 views on developerworks It was nice to have a day back in the office today, the last couple of weeks have gone by in somewhat of a blurr, with several offsite customer visits, several more visiting Hursley, my vLab sesson at IP expo in London, then last week in... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 17th October 2010 17,538 views on developerworks There are two reasons that my blogging this year has been sporadic at best. One, the sheer volume of work, its become the norm at the moment for the whole team to be spending evenings and weekends working on our baby.Why have we been all so... Continue Reading →
(A Brief History of Recent Time - Part5) ORIGINALLY POSTED 7th October 2010 17,846 views on developerworks Well as you have probably read, or heard, the Storwize V7000 is why the SVC team has been so busy over the last 18 months, and why my blogging has been sporadic at best. Hopefully the point of... Continue Reading →
Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage 