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XIV and AIX - Part three - Change your attributes
In part three of my series, AIX and XIV.... I will explore
the recommended configuration changes you should make to AIX when attaching XIV
disk. AIX uses three device types when considering fibre channel disk: fcs This is the physical fibre...
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SVC and XIV
The interop just keeps growing. As you would expect you can today attach the new IBM Storage products behind SVC, running the latest 4.3.0 software. SVC has actually supported XIV since August, we completed the controller qualification during our last SVT...
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Installing the IBM XIV VASA Provider for VMware
anthonyv
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window
vsphere
vcenter
apache
unit
vmware
tomcat
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number
storage
ibm
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If you have combined vSphere 5.0 with XIV, then you may want to try out the new IBM Storage Provider for VMware VASA (vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness). You can download the installation instructions, the release notes and the current version of...
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Where on earth are the IBM VMware SRAs?
anthonyv
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and
7 Comments
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I always laugh when people say to me: I wouldn't know what to blog about! When you work in pre-sales support, you constantly get asked questions and each one of them could be the subject of a new blog post. Right now the most common question I am getting...
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IBM XIV Gen3 SSD Caching versus EMC VFCache
TonyPearson
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vmware
xiv
ssd
pci-x
texas+memory+systems
power
solid+state+drives
ibm
cache
vmotion
dram
live+partition+mobility
6 Comments
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Have you ever noticed that sometimes two movies come out that seem eerily similar to each other, released by different studios within months or weeks of each other? My sister used to review film scripts for a living, she would read ten of them and have to...
from Blog: Inside System Storage
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IBM XIV - the facts
In you case you hear different, it's time for a few simple facts about XIV: XIV was founded in 2002 and shipped its first product in 2005 . XIV is now up to its third generation in the development process. After over 6 years, XIV is a mature and...
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Report generation tools for XIV
I have previously blogged about two XIV report generation tools that you can download and start using. This is just a short update to let you know there are updated versions of both tools, plus a new one that has just been added. These tools are...
Modified on by avandewerdt
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IBM XIV Mobile Dashboard is in the Apple Store
For those of you with Apple iPads, you might consider dropping by the Apple Store and picking up your free IBM XIV Mobile Dashboard. The IBM XIV Mobile Dashboard application can be used to securely monitor the performance and health of your XIV over a Wi-Fi or...
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Upgrading to ESXi 5.0? How to confirm VAAI status?
I am getting this question on a very regular basis: "We have just upgraded to ESXi 5.0 but we cannot find the VAAI driver on the IBM Website" The answer? There is no vendor supplied driver because no driver is needed. ESXi 5.0 uses a SCSI T10...
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IBM Storage Management Console for VMware vCenter - updated!
The IBM Storage Management Console for VMware vCenter version 2.5.1 is now available for download and install. This version supports XIV, SVC and Storwize V7000 as per the versions on the following table (the big change being support for version 6.2):...
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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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IBM Storage-VMware integration: Get Ready for VM Volumes
TonyPearson
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xiv
vmworld
4 Comments
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If you store your VMware bits on external SAN or NAS-based disk storage systems, this post is for you. The subject of the post, VM Volumes , is a potential storage management game changer! Fellow blogger Stephen Foskett mentioned VM Volumes in his [...
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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Any colour you like...
Henry Ford has long been quoted as having said: "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black." While there is some debate on what Mr Ford exactly said, it's clear that for some time now IBM has heartily...
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XIV Cache - write hit or write miss - its always a hit
I have been asked this question a few times now, so its worth a blog entry. . Clients love being able to easily view XIV performance statistics. There is a simple panel that lets you display IOPS, throughput and response times for each host or volume or for...
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IBM Storage Announcements for 1Q 2011
TonyPearson
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etsi
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ts3200
n6240
nebs
4 Comments
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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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Redbook Diary: Week One
For the next few weeks I may not blog as frequently. It's not that I am tired of writing, but I will be writing on a different subject: Helping to update the four XIV Redbooks . IBM Redbooks are one of the many ways that IBM differentiates itself from its...
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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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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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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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Xivpath - KSH script for an easier AIX client side XIV LUN management
Hi People. As an AIX administrator I work only with the "AIX side" of the technology. In the old times we had a few very good client side tools and drivers (SDD,SDDPCM) to manage the storage allocated disks, however since the XIV release -in...
from Blog: Take my advice - I don't use it anyway :)
Modified on by Glukacs1
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A glimpse at the XIV GUI Release 3.0
With all my blogging about the XIV Gen3, I am sure there are 2nd Generation XIV users out there thinking: Whats in it for me? I already bought an XIV! So for all of you, I have some really cool news: Release 3.0 of the GUI is coming and it will work...
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Double Drive Failure Debunked: XIV Two Years Later
TonyPearson
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hgst
xiv
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3 Comments
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“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”
-- George Orwell Well, it has been over two years since I first covered IBM's acquisition of the XIV company. Amazingly, I still see a lot of misperceptions out in the...
from Blog: Inside System Storage
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IBM makes some very cool storage announcements
IBM has today announced a whole swag of planned new features across the entire IBM Storage product line. You can read the announcement letter here and I have also dropped the text at the bottom of this blog post (to save you clicking on the link). It's a...
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IBM XIV GUI version 3.01 now available
IBM XIV GUI version 3.01 is now available for download from here . Fixes in this release include : An increased timeout value to prevent disconnects in slow network environments. Some compatibility fixes for using the GUI with XIVs on older firmware levels...
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