With the 6.3 release of the Storwize V7000 and SVC code (which I blogged about here), there are so many new features and functions that I have plenty more to blog about!
The first new feature I blogged about was LDAP support, but an existing feature that has been enhanced is the performance monitor (brought in with release 6.2). When this first came out I put a video on You Tube showing what metrics could be displayed in that release. This is a sped up image with no voiceover:
Now with release 6.3 IBM has added separate graphs for reads and writes plus the ability to display IOPS or MBPS, plus the ability to display graphs of read and write latency. Nice! I got so excited I made another You Tube video, this one with narration. So now you can compare the new to the old: