When you're looking for technical information about IBM Spectrum Control, you want to find it fast, right? Spending time paging through reams of documentation for help probably isn't high on your to-do list. To make it easier to find what you're looking for, the documentation for Spectrum Control is now available in the new look IBM Knowledge Center.   If you've accessed the IBM Knowledge Centers on ibm.com at any time over the past few months, you might have noticed that the interface is quite different from before. The... [More]

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Let's face it, there is a lot of information in the knowledge center for IBM Spectrum Control, and sometimes finding the right information can take time. Time that you might or might not have. And when you do find what you're looking for, paging through all the other topics that are available isn't high on your to-do list. Maybe you're the kind of person who just likes to dive in and figure out things as you go without reading documentation. If this describes you, or if you've never had a chance to delve into the IBM... [More]

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Whether you manage or own applications, departments, hypervisors, or physical servers, you want to know how much storage is being consumed and how much it costs to maintain the storage that is consumed. And, you want that information in your inbox now, every week or month so that you can keep a close eye on storage costs and capacity consumption. In IBM ® Spectrum Control™   a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite , Bob, your storage administrator, can schedule, customize and send chargeback reports to your... [More]

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Who wants to live in a house that was built overnight? You would wonder if too many shortcuts were taken; if the right tools were even used in the construction. You have heard the saying, “you are only as good as your tools.” Well, it’s true! Selecting the right tools for a job is a critical decision, and one that needs to be monitored carefully and then included in an overall strategy for any project or environment. The same is true for a storage administrator and his storage. When it comes to building and monitoring a... [More]

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IBM Spectrum Storage Suite is an alternative to storage sprawl, and can bring consistency and control to your storage environment. It facilitates adoption of new types of storage and simplifies existing environments. IBM Spectrum Storage Suite can significantly reduce the cost and complexity of storage.     If you use just SAN storage, the value of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite increases only if more than two products are used. However, for business environments that are adding storage-rich servers to their traditional storage... [More]

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If you are looking for the latest IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot documentation and would like some tips for how to find what you are looking for, why not checkout this article? Learn how to get started, toggle between versions, or use the image maps to go directly to the information you need, http://ibm.co/29pRMfR . 

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If you were thinking about installing IBM Spectrum Protect TM Snapshot  V4.1.6, you will be interested in the Prerequisite Checker. Save yourself time and effort by running the checker tool in your environment before you install the product. This will help you to preempt some common issues before you proceed to the installation process. To learn more about the Prerequisite Checker and how to run it, check out this article IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot Prerequisite Checker   

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I don't know about you, but I could not bake to save my life - that is, until I discovered ready-made puff pastry dough in my local supermarket. Now making apple strudel is child's play and everyone thinks I'm some sort of expert pastry chef The new dynamic target allocation functionality that is available on IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot for VMware is somewhat like ready-made puff pastry dough, whereby it removes a huge slice of the 'setting up' work in relation to backing up your data stores and virtual machines on SAN... [More]

IBM Spectrum Control™, a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage™ Suite , now includes a wizard that you can use to export bulk performance data for a storage system or fabric to a compressed file. If you contact IBM Support to help you analyze a performance problem with a resource, you might be asked to send this file. You can export performance data for the following types of resource: storage systems, nodes, modules, I/O groups, host connections, pools, RAID arrays, managed disks, disks, volumes, file systems, switches,... [More]

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