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Feel the heat! Make no mistake this release of IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center V5.2.4 is hot and new and contains many user enhancements. The modeling of storage data with applications and departments, which enables you to perform capacity trending, health monitoring, and performance troubleshooting tasks and more powerful, intuitive alerting capabilities are just some of the new release highlights. For even  information on what’s new in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2.4, see this... [More]

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Tivoli Storage Manager Version 6 first GA'd in 2009 with a new internal database, our highest levels of scalability and availability, and new data reduction features such as deduplication at the source and target.  Along the way, we published "Deployment Recommendations for TSM v6 Server" to streamline customers' deployment planning and experience, greatly improving time to value for clients.  The Deployment Guide is a living document with "real time" updates occurring whenever new insights are discovered in areas such as... [More]

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    As storage continues to grow in your environment, it is important to know how your storage is performing and that it is tiered correctly in order to reduce costs. The latest on-premises release of IBM Spectrum Control™ (IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center), a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage™ family, is now available. It is full of consumer oriented features and enhancements that provide the ability to monitor and manage your storage infrastructure efficiently. For the downloads for this release, see... [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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Your storage capacity isn’t virtualized?   Don’t worry you’re not alone.   The concept of virtualization of IT resources is broadly understood, however the deployment and usage of virtualization isn’t as balanced across the datacenter.   Virtualization of compute –or- server runtime is   commonplace, widely referred to as virtual machines (VM’s) but storage, network, desktops, and other areas that make up the datacenter can just as easily be ‘virtualized’ and deliver value.   In this article, I’m going to outline why every datacenter should... [More]

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If you wish to monitor capacity and troubleshoot performance of applications, understand the SAN resources that the applications are dependent on and  monitor capacity usage at a department level, then checkout V5.2.5 of IBM Spectrum Control (IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center). In V5.2.5 of IBM Spectrum Control for you can:     - Model applications in GPFS environments where filesets are primary containers of application storage.     - View a hierarchy list to better understand the application and... [More]

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  In this release of IBM® Spectrum Control,™ a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite , the development team worked closely with support teams from IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller and IBM Storwize® to make troubleshooting performance issues easier to understand and report. You can view 9 key metrics, that are outside of the standard range IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller and IBM Storwize® storage systems, by using performance guidelines to assess if your storage systems are... [More]

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IBM® Spectrum Control™ V5.2.12, a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite , continues to provide IT managers with more and more intelligent analytics for managing their storage environments by balancing efficiency with performance and cost savings. Some highlights of the new release that is available include: Enhancements to the reporting on multiple tenants within the IBM Spectrum Control GUI. In addition to the previously available Chargeback report, you can now create a new storage Consumer report outside of the optional... [More]

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After the recent, very insightful, and extremely successful IBM InterConnect 2015 Conference in Las Vegas, IBM continues the momentum with the release of IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (IBM Spectrum Control), V5.2.5.                 In this release, the development team extends support for GPFS (IBM Spectrum Scale) and adds even more user-friendly enhancements to augment your data collection; this marks the third consecutive release that feature enhancements, support, and user improvements were... [More]

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  IBM Spectrum Storage Suite - Complete Flexibility for Software-Defined Storage Helping Drive Up To 40% In Savings You can't beat the Suite! IBM Spectrum Storage Suite is designed to help improve the way you manage, protect and store data; deploy new capacity faster; and change or add software without raising license costs. Licenses are calculated on the amount of storage capacity you’re managing, not the number of software products you’re using. Yet it provides full coverage for software-define storage needs along with... [More]

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2.3 has added support in the following areas: FlashSystem V840 Enterprise Performance Solution system General Parallel File System (GPFS) clusters and GPFS Storage Server (GSS) Fabric troubleshooting for performance and connectivity issues Enhancing storage capacity tiering Tivoli Storage Productivity Center provides similar interoperability for a FlashSystem V840 storage system as it already does for a SVC/Storwize system. You are able to collect and display the same type of data and also enable the... [More]

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You add storage systems to get valuable insights, and to get those valuable insights, you rely on the data collector, which collects the asset, capacity, and performance data securely from your data center for analysis and presentation in IBM ® Spectrum Control ™ Storage Insights . But, what if your storage systems are in different networks or data centers and you have only one data collector? This might result in bandwidth or connectivity issues. Well, all you need to do is install multiple data collectors, and when you add a storage... [More]

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Please join the Tivoli User Community for a live Webcast, Data Domain Integration with TSM,  and opportunity for Q& A, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM ET USA. Reserve Your Webcast Seat Now Overview:  The purpose of this presentation is to provide insight in simplifying the procedures that enable Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) administrators in successfully integrating a Data Domain system. Kumar Kancharana will give an overview of TSM and walk over Piedmont Healthcare’s Backup Environment and explain how Piedmont Integrated DD as... [More]

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IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2, which is part of IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center, is available worldwide (eGA) and improves the ability to visualize and control storage environments from end to end.   These are just some of the features of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V5.2: Offers comprehensive visibility and centralized management of heterogeneous storage infrastructures with improved device management, custom tags, and agent-less server management from a single interface that is web-based and integrated... [More]

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Determining when and how you are alerted to conditions and violations of performance thresholds within a storage environment is important to helping you maintain and administer storage resources. In Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, V5.2.5 (IBM Spectrum Control), the notification feature was improved to enable you to specify global settings for alert notifications in one, central location. Alerts can define notification actions that send email, generate Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps, or generate IBM® Tivoli®... [More]

LBGM(Low Bandwidth Global Mirror) is the latest technology which comes with IBM SVC v6.3, where asynchronous replication from DC to DR with SVC/V7000 can be setup with less bandwidth, prior to v6.3 the regular Global Mirror was very much sensitive to available bandwidth, where we can't tweak the RPO(directly/indirectly). With Global Mirror with Change Volume(LBGW), SVC/V7000 uses an internal Flash Copy for the Global Mirror replication. This paper, would help you to understand the internals of LBGW/Global Mirror with Change Volume, design and... [More]

YES!!! Not only is there a video that shows the GPFS (IBM Spectrum Scale) related capabilities in IBM Spectrum Control (IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, V5.2.5), but its narrated by SME Christian Bolik, a member of the development team that deals primarily with GPFS functionality. When it comes to storage resources, IBM Spectrum Control revolves around the concept of storage systems. To accommodate this, a GPFS cluster is treated by IBM Spectrum Control as a file storage system, comparable to IBM Storwize V7000 Unified, or NetApp filers.... [More]