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XIV HAK Version 1.6 has been released
I recently created a post about the XIV Host Attachment Kit (amusingly called the HAK ). IBM has released an update to the HAK, taking us from version 1.5 to version 1.6. The updated versions, along with release notes and installation instructions can be...
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Breaking through the 2TB barrier
There was a time when 32 bits was considered a lot. A hell of a lot. With 32 bits, you can create a hexadecimal number as big as 0xFFFFFFFE (presuming we reserve one bit). In decimal that's 4,294,967,295. Hey... imagine a bank account balance that big?...
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The XIV Host Attachment Kit
As you would expect, the IBM XIV supports a very wide range of Host Operating Systems. Even better, for most of these Operating Systems, IBM makes available (free-of-charge) a multipathing kit to install on these hosts. We call this the Host Attachment Kit,...
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Does your XIV know its own address?
A quick blog post about XIV call home..... As with most IBM products, the XIV can call home to IBM using e-mail notifications. I still meet people who call this dial-home , which reflects the 20th century practice of using modems to provide a Remote...
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Storage Innovation Executive Summit - Part 7
TonyPearson
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Continuing my coverage of the [ IBM Storage Innovation Executive Summit ], that occurred May 9 in New York City, this is my seventh and final in a series of blog posts on this event.
Cosmic Scale of Data Dan Galvan, IBM VP of Marketing for Storage, was the...
from Blog: Inside System Storage
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GUI vs CLI - Sharing the Love
Storage IT offers up many choices, some of which provoke argument so heated, you could almost describe the adherents as religious. I think you might know the sort of arguments I am talking about: File vs Block I/O iSCSI vs Fibre Channel CLI vs GUI OK.......
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A Common Storage GUI - Simplify the flightdeck!
With the announced release of DS8000 6.1 code, IBM has moved its three major storage systems to a common GUI platform. This makes me think of aircraft manufacturers who utilize a common cockpit design. For airlines, this is major drawcard when choosing...
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VAAI driver download link for XIV
Hi Team! Back from a short break (for Easter and the School Holidays) to three great pieces of news: A new series of Doctor Who is screening. Will and Kates wedding went off without a hitch (its not often I get to yell at the dog to stop barking at possums...
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IBM XIV Management Console For VMware vCenter Version 2
Last week IBM released Version 2 of the management plug-in for VMware vCenter. The main benefit of Version 1 (the previous release) was that it allowed you to map your datastores to XIV volumes (i.e. which XIV volume equates to which VMware datastore). ...
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XIV GUI and the decimal/binary divide
For someone who blogs so frequently about the IBM XIV, I will let you in on a little pet hate of mine: The XIV uses decimal volume sizes. The XIV GUI and CLI has the user create volumes using decimal sizing, meaning 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes (1000 to...
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VAAI and XIV - Its here!
I have some great news regarding VAAI support for XIV. Let me detail the current situation: VMware has approved the IBM driver for VAAI and we can now release it to the public. The IBM_VAAIP_MODULE plugin will be available shortly from the ibm.com website....
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IBM and Windows Disk partition alignment
A question I get routinely asked relates to Windows disk partition alignment with XIV. If you don't know what I am talking about, take some time to read these very useful pages from our friends at Microsoft. Once you have had a look, come on back and read...
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Migrating a RHEL v5 host to XIV
Over on my Wordpress blog, I have posted an entry on migrating a Linux RHEL host from EMC to XIV. If that subject interests you, check out my article here: https://aussiestorageblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/migrating-a-rhel-v5-host-to-xiv/
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XIV Write Performance with 10.2.4 code
The XIV 10.2.4 release notes report performance improvements that are worth investigating. Two of the reported improvements listed are: Improved write hit performance with small blocks Improved write caching performance I visited a client running 10.2.4 to...
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XIV and SNMP - lets walk the walk
Over on Wordpress, I have just published an article on SNMP and XIV. Given some funky formatting, I have decided not to paste it into this blog. If your interested in monitoring an XIV with SNMP, please head over to here: http://aussiestorageblog.wordpress....
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IBM and Netapp: A marriage with ups and downs.
RichardSwain
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When I first started working at IBM, we had a couple of NAS storage devices: NAS 100, NAS 300(G) and the NAS 500. The NAS 100 was a 1U server appliance that used Windows 2000 and so did the NAS 200 device, all built on IBM hardware. The NAS 500 was on an...
from Blog: IBM Storage
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Trying out XIV and VAAI
As I blogged previously, VAAI support for XIV has two dependencies: 10.2.4a code Vmware Certified driver Both of these things are very close to release.... In the meantime I have had the chance to demonstrate the uncertified VAAI driver with XIV 10.2.4 code,...
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IBM XIV Storage System Community Blog
IBM XIV Storage System The IBM XIV® Storage System demonstrates how storage can simplify
management and provisioning, yielding optimizing benefits especially for
virtualized server environments. This means that growth in data does
not mean growth in...
from Blog: JSK V7000
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XIV Training anyone?
I am starting the week in Adelaide having travelle here to teach an XIV course: SSA0AU XIV Technical Training . I really enjoy teaching, particularly when the students are coming from a non-IBM background. It gives me the chance to better learn how IBM's...
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Want my XIV Visios? You got em!
One of the more common themes I blog about is the demand for Visio Stencils. In this regard I have some more good news. Firstly the VisioCafe site has an updated IBM-Disk stencil set with the following additions: IBM-SystemStorage-Disk.vss - Added...
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XIV VAAI Support – whats the story?
After seeing some tweets from @SFoskett regarding XIV support for VAAI, I thought I would supply an update with the information that I have to hand. IBM added VAAI support in XIV code level 10.2.4. However a code fix has since been written for a VAAI...
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IBM Storage Announcements for 1Q 2011
TonyPearson
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Well, it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means... IBM Announcements!
IBM thought the week that everyone is watching IBM Watson compete against humans on Jeopardy! would be a good week to launch new storage products.
IBM XIV Storage System Ever...
from Blog: Inside System Storage
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Chickens and Eggs (and XIV )
In my last post I talked about the versions of XIV code and XIV Management GUI needed for QoS. It leads to the question of how to match the Management GUI version to the XIV code version.... which goes with which? Many storage products have management...
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Some more thoughts on XIV QoS
After a chat with my one of our business partners, I thought I would add some more info about XIV and QoS: You need your XIV GUI to be on version 2.4.4 and you need your XIV to be on code version 10.2.4. If your not on those levels, you will need to upgrade...
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XIV and QoS - Using new Performance Classes
I have been exploring some of the new features added in XIV firmware version 10.2.4. Today I look at QoS (Quality of Service). This new feature allows you to restrict how much IO (in IOs per second or IOPS) or throughput (in megabytes per second or MBps) an...
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