we now have a new WIKI where we collect technical informations about BVQ and SVC / Storwize V7000 performance management and Bottleck Analysis. the http address of the blog entry before is wrong - please use this one.   http://bvqwiki.sva.de

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We are very proud to announce the general availability of BVQ Version 3.3. BVQ Version 3.3 is the first IBM SVC and Storwize monitoring and analysis solution with full support of the IBM SVC and Storwize Family Software V7.3.x. IBM SVC and Storwize Family Software V7.3.x enhances overall system performance by introducing a completely new cache architecture. With BVQ V3.3 we are now able to analyze this new cache architecture. This is highly essential, to better understand performance bottlenecks because many problem root causes can only be... [More]

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Avoid mission critical security vulnerabilities with Service Level Management a practical approach We mirror storage volumes, especially in mission critical environments, to avoid that a simple technical failure leads to application downtime and loss of production. With SVC or Storwize it is very easy to migrate volumes between different storage systems, and with this it may happen that two sides of a mirror are moved to the same site or even worse to the same storage system. Highly explosive to this situation is, that SVC or Storwize migrates... [More]

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German SVC / Storwize User group meeting has been scheduled now. September 24 in Mainz Conference Language is German   Enroll here: https://events.paxido.com/SVC-und-V7000-User-Day/   German SVC User Group in XING: www.xing.com/net/ svc group

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We finally added the flyer for the German Post Reference Story "V7000 with BVQ" An interesting point  for this Reference is that German Post did a pre project with the existing SVN environment with BVQ performance monitoring.               With the measured data from their old system the Customer was able to taylor the new storage system exactly to their needs.   During a technical pre-project using the previous SVC infrastructure, the DPAG was able to figure out exactly which new storage... [More]

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it is now much easier to perform BVQ demo installation.   Just send us a mail, we will organize everything needed to start a successful demo. You can also combine this demo with a SVC / Storwize system check. Request a BVQ Demo   or just send us a mail to mailto:BVQ@sva.de  

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Storwize Family Software V7.3 has implemented many changes, specially in the cache architecture, Easy Tier and re-striping of storage pools. The changes target to enhance overall system performance. The experience is good but sometimes little things can cause trouble and can lead to a deterioration. What to do, if you have made this experience? Try to find the reason and fix it! We have just released the new BVQ V3.3 offline scanner for general download. This scanner can now also capture the new performance metrics of Storwize family software... [More]

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The BVQ story ... The storage challenge Even a small storage environment may be complex. Questions about cost optimization or availability are hard to answer because the knowledge about actual and future performance needs is often not available or not current.  Analysis and help in case of performance bottlenecks is not possible because of missing tools or the available tools do not have the technical depth or are too complex to be used. The start of the BVQ development was the need to support our own SVC customers with the best expertise... [More]

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With using min and max cache fullness values one can better analysis what is going on in the SVC or Storwize cache. This is espacially helpful when you want to find the root causes of performance bottleneck. http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/AwCW This document belongs to the BVQ Use Case Performance Analysis  http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/e4E6

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Here you will find a small video that shows how it works Link to video    

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BVQV3.3.2 has toleration support for V7.4 which means that everything is supported without the new V7.4 features encryption and child pools. These will be supported with the upcoming BVQ V3.4   Download here http://bvqwiki.sva.de/x/x4FtAQ

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BVQ version 3.2 supports the new SVC / Storwize code versions 7.3.x The BVQ scanner from older versions is not able to work with the new Storwize code. New BVQ code Version 3.2   If you upgrade from BVQ versions before BVQ V3.0 Since BVQ 3.0 we also changed from DB2 V9.7 to DB2 V10.5. If you are still running DB2 V9.7 and you want to upgrade to BVQ 3.x you also need to upgrade to DB2 V10.5 and with this you need to have a new DB2 license file. The special DB2 license is part of the BVQ package but cannot be downloaded.... [More]

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Highlights Capacity charting Introduction of Design IO Density for MDisk group & Storage Class objects Report scheduling VDisk copy capacity difference Enhanced path based charting (PBC) PBC Chart report snippets Enhanced BVQ Server user roles BVQ Server Maintenance Mode (v5.4.1) Capacity charting A highly flexible capacity charting system is finally available inside the BVQ GUI. In the past, capacity charting was only possible by using predefined reports with a fixed set of object types. It is now possible to chart all capacities the... [More]

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I finished the translation of the BVQ Accounting Package specs With the BVQ Accounting Package, BVQ can work with organizational objects such as cost centers, application groups, applications and volume groups. The SVC/Storwize volumes can be assigned to these organizational units, which then can be used for chargeback and different monitoring purposes. These new organizational objects are also included in the BVQ Treemap - without restrictions and in the same way as any other SVC storage object - to display capacity and performance information... [More]

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Next week we will first time show BVQ 3.3 Beta at the German SVC user group day in Ehningen. BVQ version 3.3 supports the SVC / Storwize version 7.3 completely, including the new cache architecture. Further improvements are removable window, with which more than an analysis can be edited at the same time.   Link to BVQ: http://bvqwiki.sva.de/display/BVQ/Home    

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Next Step for BVQ is to support VMware analysis which is now available in a beta release. This is one of the demos we actually show at the IBM TechU in Hollywood Fl -come to our booth if you are also there.     It's easy and valuable to do BVQ analysis for VMware. But is even more valuable if you can do True End to End analysis, which includes both VMware and Storage.   Here's an example: We have the situation that a SVC volume (VDisk) suddenly shows high latencies. Part of the analysis is now a storage analysis to find... [More]

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You have a Spectrum Virtualize storage system, such as an IBM SAN Volume Controller or an IBM Storwize and use a GMCV data mirror to mirror your data over long distances. You do that to protect yourself from disasters, which happen more and more often.   You do everything right except for...! No monitoring!! You do not know how good the quality of your recovery points is. Are Recovery Point created according to plan or only as a guess? No idea! Very dangerous! Blind flight in the mountains! You notice it when the disaster happened! The... [More]

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In the last blog post, I showed how easy it is to monitor an SVC / Storwize Global Mirror Change Volume (GMCV) with BVQ. This software platform presents all consistency groups at a glance in a simple traffic light display. It is very easy to understand and super effective monitoring. Blog #1 Watch your GMCV operation with BVQ Monitoring   Why is GMCV monitoring so important? GMCV is the data’s disaster protection! The "last line of defense". A well operating GMCV creates the recovery points needed to recover your data. Therefore,... [More]

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This is a report from my last customer visit where I installed the BVQ GMCV (Global Mirror Change Volume) monitoring at one of my customers. Immediately after the installation, we saw that in the event of a catastrophe, the customer would have lost many data irretrievably. We had a great experience with our GMCV extension for BVQ. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/BVQ/entry/Watch_your_Global_Mirror_Change_Volume_Operations?lang=en... [More]

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