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Barry Whyte Barry Whyte is a 'Master Inventor' working in the Systems Group. Now based in Auckland New Zealand, Barry is working for the IBM ATS team covering Storage Virtualization for the AP region. Previously Barry was based in IBM Hursley, UK. Barry primarly works on the IBM SAN Volume Controller and Storwize family of virtual disk systems. Barry graduated from The University of Glasgow in 1996 with a B.Sc (Hons) in Computing Science. In his 20 years at IBM he has also worked on the successful Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) and the IBM DS8000 range. Barry joined the SVC development team soon after its inception and has held many positions before taking on his long running role as performance architect. In 2015 Barry moved to New Zealand, but maintains a part-time working role for the Hursley team working as a performance consultant. Outside of work, Barry enjoys playing golf and all things to do with Rotary Engines. All posts on this blog are (c) Copyright International Business Machines 2007-2016 - reproduction without prior approval is prohibited.
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    Systems Technical University - Apr 30th - May 4th - Orlando 2018

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (227)
    There is still time to register and attend this years TechU in Orlando,  As with previous years this is the main Technical University for 2018, with the largest worldwide coverage for all of IBM Systems, Storage, Power and Z.  I will be there with a few others from the Hursley develiopment...   [Continue Reading]

    "Pure dead brilliant" - Not quite the first I'm afraid

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (2) | Visits (1026)
    'Pure dead brilliant, so it is' - Urban Dictionary   This week, while recovering from the crazy busy week over in Vegas for IBM Think, I was sent an email by our competitive analysis team which reminded me of why I started this blog back in 2007....   [Continue Reading]

    IBM Think 2018 - Las Vegas - 19th-22nd March

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (1270)
    For those of you attending Think 2018 next month, here are a few useful links to help build your agenda for the week. If you haven't already signed up, there is still time!   Registration and Conference Link https://www.ibm.com/events/think/ There is a link to register in the top right hand...   [Continue Reading]

    Announcing Data Reduction Pools - Spectrum Virtualize v8.1.2

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (16) | Visits (3362)
    It's that Tuesday in 1Q where IBM announces a load of new products (SpectrumNAS) and enhancements to the existing products. There is so much being announced today, that I will refer you to Tony's post that covers them all, and I will concentrate on Spectrum Virtualize as usual - for...   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize - UK User Groups 15/16 November 2017

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (2841)
    Hi all,   A quick post to remind people, and notify those that don't know, of the dates for the 2H17 UK User Group meetings.   As usual held over a 2 day period, with first day (15th November) for Business Partners and second day (16th November) for Customers.   For links to the...   [Continue Reading]

    Announcing Spectrum Virtualize v8.1.0

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (3) | Visits (5721)
    On Tuesday 22nd August we announced the latest code update that will be available soon for the Spectrum Virtualize family. For the first time since 2012 we have bumped the major version number to 8. This signifies some exciting new features that begin with this release in 3Q and will be expanded...   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize - North American User Group - Sept 20th 21st

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (2531)
    Hi all,   Some more advertising, if you are in North America and want to attend this years Spectrum Virtualize User Group be sure to register via the link on the user groups page . This year the event is back in Raleigh RTP Executive Briefing Center, and...   [Continue Reading]

    IBM Technical Symposium Melbourne 2017 15-17th August

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comment (1) | Visits (3127)
    Hi all,   Just a quick one to remind people in this part of the world that the annual Australian IBM Systems Technical Symposium is this year running in Melbourne at the Crowne Conference center from 15th to 17th August.   We are just finalising the agenda for the Storage sessions, and we...   [Continue Reading]

    IBM Technical University Orlando May 22nd

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (3297)
    Just a reminder, and there is still time to register if you haven't already, but this years Systems Technical University is in Orlando next week. I hope to see you there and will be covering several sessions, a few on performance as usual, and some technical deep dives, as well as the NDA...   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize Hursley User Group May 8th 9th

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (3063)
    Hi all,   Just a quick notices post to remind everyone that the next Spectrum Virtualize UK User Group sessions are happening at IBM Hursley on 8th and 9th of May.   8th May - Business Partner Day 9th May - Customer Day   For more details, and registration information, see the...   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize 7.8.1 Announcement

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comment (1) | Visits (7963)
    I completely missed the announcement a couple of weeks ago for version 7.8.1 of the Spectrum Virtualize software. Traveling too much at the end of last month and forgot to post an update on whats new. This release I am dubbing the ‘customer council’ release. Last year we started a...   [Continue Reading]

    Configuring RAID/DRAID Best Practice - SVC and Storwize

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (11) | Visits (25050)
    Here’s another topic I often get asked about. Things used to be quite simple and I covered this for many years in my Configuring for Optimal Performance series of technical university presentations (also here on the blog - parts 1, 2, 3) - and the basics are still the same when configuring...   [Continue Reading]

    Quorum - how does it work? SVC and Storwize

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (17) | Visits (9119)
    Spectrum Virtualize Quorum Happy New Year to all. I’ve been getting a few questions relating to quorum devices, and in particular the IP quorum and what happens when various different failure scenarios occur. I thought it was worth detailing things here. So first some background. What are...   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize 7.8.0 - Now available

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (16) | Visits (7415)
    7.8.0 Spectrum Virtualize Back in November we announce the 7.8 updates for SVC, Storwize and V9000 - the products running Spectrum Virtualize software, and a new expansion enclosure offering over 1.4PB RAW capacity in just 5U rack space… Transparent Cloud Tiering TCT is IBM’s general...   [Continue Reading]

    Bill Scales - All Flash Storage - Why RAID Matters [Guest Post]

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (4) | Visits (6594)
     Today we are lucky to have the first in a series of guest posts from Dr Bill Scales. Bill is one of the lead product architects in the storage team in Hursley. Bills depth and breadth of knowledge of storage systems is second to none, which means there is always a queue of people waiting to...   [Continue Reading]

    Building Agile Infrastructures - Webcast 20th October

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (3638)
    IBM Software Defined solutions take agility to the next level – the ability to easily move data and workloads to and from public clouds.   "Today’s businesses are driven by data and the infrastructure has to provide the agility needed to quickly address new requirements....   [Continue Reading]

    Egg Timers, a Million Pounds and Read Intensive Flash

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (7) | Visits (5467)
    Yesterday I spent an hour or so looking for something I knew was out in the blogosphere so I could pull down the reference to it, its frustrating that even when you know something is out there, and no amount of google search phrases can find it for you. But what I did find was a couple of my old...   [Continue Reading]

    Next Gen V7000 and SVC - Spectrum Virtualize 7.7.1 - And All Flash

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (2) | Visits (8396)
    Just to make life as difficult as possible for the development and test teams, and not content with refreshing the lower end Storwize V5000 products earlier this year, today IBM is announcing a refresh to the Storwize V7000, FlashSystem V9000 and SVC platforms, some new all-flash variants of...   [Continue Reading]

    CIO Roundtable - Big Data, Analytics and the Ethics of Data

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (4638)
    A few weeks back myself and Lloyd Vickery, from the IBM NZ Systems team, attended an IDG run CIO roundtable event. The insights from those attending give a great view into the concerns and needs of CIO's today - when it comes to data, getting useful information from the data, and the ethics...   [Continue Reading]

    You probably have some more license than you thought... Introducing Differential Licensing

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comment (1) | Visits (8692)
    New “Differential” Licensing Over the years its become clear that a TB isn’t what it used to be, for example the maximum tier of SVC license capacity back in 2003 was 32TB… so things have changed. We wanted to reflect this in the managed (mdisk) capacity licensing. Not all...   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize Update 7.7.0 Part 3

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (6) | Visits (7509)
    Last week I covered some of the main updates in the 7.7.0 release of Spectrum Virtualize, this week I am in IBM RTP in North Carolina and can fill you in on yet more! New Flash and Drive Options   Lower Cost Flash Drives Just as we have had different price and performance point spinning HDD...   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize Update 7.7.0 Part 2

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (2) | Visits (7602)
    Last week while in Sweden and Denmark I posted about the new 7.7.0 Spectrum Virtualize software that was announced while I was there. Back home in New Zealand now, and got some time to fill you in on the rest of the features this new release brings to SVC, Storwize, FlashSystem V9000 and VersaStack....   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize Update 7.7.0

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comment (1) | Visits (9273)
    Introducing Spectrum Virtualize Version 7.7.0 Software This week I have been travelling in the Nordics. Despite now living in New Zealand, I can’t escape from the great User Group events that the Swedish team have been running for many years now, and its great to actually visit Stockholm in...   [Continue Reading]

    SVC XML Statistics Definitions - 7.6.0

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comment (1) | Visits (5620)
    Hi all, I know over the years I've had hundreds of enquiries regarding the XML statistics, what they contains and how they can be decoded. Some of you have written your own parsers and need to know when new things have been added or items changed. Google isn't much help as it finds, the old...   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize 7.6.0 - DRAID, Encryption and more

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (5) | Visits (21968)
    Its that time again, another six months since our last software update and we bring you version 7.6 of the Spectrum Virtualize software. Applicable to all SVC and Storwize systems currently supported out there, but not the end of life for support of 8G4 and 8A4 systems in the RFA details issued last...   [Continue Reading]

    UK User Groups - October 2015 (Next Week!)

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (3917)
    Hi all,   Another quick post, before I start my long trek back to the UK...   The next SVC and Storwize User Groups in the UK will be held next week in IBM Hursley, still time to register and come along. Hope to see you there :   Monday 12th October, IBM Hursley House (Business...   [Continue Reading]

    NA User Group - September 2015

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (4128)
    A very quick post, the North American SVC and Storwize User Groups are being held on 16th and 17th September in Austin this year.   See Andy's post for more details... We will both be there, hope to see you too!   Told you, very quick one!

    Ever wondered what happens at the User Groups...

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comment (1) | Visits (4548)
    I think its true to say that the SVC and Storwize User Groups that IBM has helped to setup and run has created a real community of users and partners around the globe. There are very active groups in the UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden and Finland and of course the USA. (Sorry if I missed some)...   [Continue Reading]

    Spectrum Virtualize 7.5.0 - HyperSwap - grep and more!

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (3) | Visits (12348)
    Over two weeks ago, we released v7.5.0 of the recently re-branded 'Spectrum Virtualize' software, that software that we all know as the code running in both SVC and Storwize products. The major new feature in 7.5.0 is HyperSwap - which you can think of as a new and improved Stretched Cluster...   [Continue Reading]

    A new blog worth reading - Mr Martin

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (5500)
    Hi all,   A quick update to let you know of a new blog here on developerworks that should be worth adding to you RSS feeds/reader. Andrew Martin is one of my colleagues from the Hursley development team and currently works as the Support Architect for SVC/Storwize products and everything...   [Continue Reading]

    Storwize and SVC UK User Group - 6th May 2015

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (4974)
        Storwize Customer UGM     Wednesday 6th May 2015, IBM Hursley    IBM Storwize Family of Products (including SVC) User Group Meeting      Come and meet the Storwize Team at the IBM Laboratory, based in Hursley Park, Winchester. The team will...   [Continue Reading]

    Christchurch NZ - FlashSystem V9000

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Visits (5638)
    First trip in new role has been to Christchurch for the last couple of days. Some good meetings with Business Partners to see the lay of the land here, and look over some interesting prospects being worked on. The recent FlashSystem V9000 announcement, which I didn't cover in my absence during...   [Continue Reading]

    Time for a change of scenery

    bwhyte 310000B8UF | | Comments (8) | Visits (6680)
    I do have a good excuse this time for the short hiatus in posts, as things have been a bit more crazy than normal, but to be expected when you up and move the whole family, literally to the opposite side of the globe! My wife was born in New Zealand and spent much of her youth there, with most of...   [Continue Reading]

    IBM SAN Volume Controller Standby Storage Engine

    JonTate 110000B0RP | | Visits (8423)
    In this very concise IBM Redpaper we describe the procedure for making use of an IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Standby Storage Engine in a SAN which is not a part of any cluster, but is a candidate and able to join a cluster at a moment’s notice. The purpose of this is to reduce the impact...   [Continue Reading]

    New SVC and Storwize V7.4 Software

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Comments (3) | Visits (22817)
    With half term week here in the UK and preparations for next months travels, I almost forgot that yesterday we announced the contents of version 7.4.0 of the SVC and Storwize software that will be GA'd on 28th November. The full RFA can be viewed here , but here's a quick summary....   [Continue Reading]

    User Group Mania

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Visits (5180)
    Hi all, Just a quick update for November which is now know as "User Group Month"... I will be attending all of these and hope to see you there : Date Country Location Attendees Registration Contact 5-6th November USA IBM EBC Raleigh Business Partners (Requires partnerworld login)...   [Continue Reading]

    Next Generation V7000 and SVC

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Comments (20) | Visits (42197)
    I guess a few folks will comment that I'm raising my head again at announcement time, and true, but thats part of the problem on working on new and exciting stuff, I can't talk about it until days like today where we have announced two major new engines in the SVC and Storwize family. I even...   [Continue Reading]

    Heartbleed and IBM

    JonTate 110000B0RP | | Visits (9662)
    I think that this Heartbleed bug is going to be an observational comedian's dream. Well I guess one that is a bit of an IT geek anyway. Not quite sure what the Pub Landlord will make of it, but I am sure that he will have some kind of an opinion. Probably not fit to print. Anyway, on to the...   [Continue Reading]

    Native IP Replication on the SVC/Storwize Family

    JonTate 110000B0RP | | Visits (13251)
    Starting with IBM Storwize Family Software V7.2, including IBM SAN Volume Controller, we introduced native replication over IP networks. As this IBM Redpaper describes, you will see that it is easy to configure in an existing IP infrastructure. This is a lower-cost alternative to the Fibre...   [Continue Reading]

    Vdisks, Mdisks, Extents and Grains - Scale Out for Sure

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Visits (12614)
    I think I missed January, it certainly seems like February has snuck up on us - maybe its because every day here in the UK is merging into one... since us Brits love to talk about the weather... its been kinda boring, rain rain, oh look its raining. It feels more like being back in Scotland where we...   [Continue Reading]

    Extreme Blogging

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Comments (480) | Visits (32376)
    I see that EMC have finally pushed yet another technology family on its customers. Extreme I/O arrays. So now you have to decide which one of these things do I want.   OK, let me buy an all flash array, so how will that fit with my VMax and VNX estate - oh it wont -   you mean its...   [Continue Reading]

    SVC and Storwize User Group Mtg 26th November

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Visits (8801)
    Your Personal Invitation to the SVC and Storwize V7000 User Group Meeting This is an unrivalled opportunity for you to meet with and talk to IBM’s leading SVC and IBM Storwize V7000 subject matter experts. Our team will formally present their views on the strategic directions of SVC and IBM...   [Continue Reading]

    One new Redbook, and one new-ish one....

    JonTate 110000B0RP | | Visits (14272)
    As most people are aware (see Barry's post) we just announced the Storwize V5000. It fits neatly between the Storwize V3700 and the V7000. And of course no product is complete without an accompanying IBM Redbook.   So, here goes:   One new one:  ...   [Continue Reading]

    Introducing the Storwize V5000 and 7.2

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Comment (1) | Visits (31966)
    Some of you may have spotted we release another Storwize Family member back in July, but in limited geographies. Today IBM announced world-wide availability of the IBM Storwize V5000. As the name suggests, this product sits firmly between the Storwize V3000 and Storwize V7000 ranges, in terms of...   [Continue Reading]

    Configuring IBM Storwize V7000 and SVC for Optimal Performance ... parts 3 and 4

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Comments (2) | Visits (25583)
    I know, I promised this some months ago, and I've been enjoying my spare time too much, and not blogging enough! So rather than keep you all waiting even more, here is a PDF of the presentation I gave at IBM Edge 2013 in Vegas. Hopefully most of it is self-explanitory, and I WILL post some more...   [Continue Reading]

    IBM Easy Tier with IBM Real-time Compression

    JonTate 110000B0RP | | Visits (19106)
    Recently we published an IBM Redbooks Solution Guide on Implementing IBM Easy Tier with IBM Real-time Compression. IBM® Easy Tier® is a performance function that automatically and non-disruptively migrates frequently accessed data from magnetic media to solid-state drives (SSDs). In that...   [Continue Reading]


    Tags:  v7000 svc ssd storwize easy-tier flashsystem

    Dispute it, we must...

    JonTate 110000B0RP | | Visits (16362)
    “To err is human; to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope. Well we are mixing up poetry and Star Wars here today (or tomorrow, if it is already tomorrow where you are), and finish it off with a cryptic message. Anyway, let's cut to the chase here: a long time ago, in an IBM Redbook far,...   [Continue Reading]

    Flash - but not Harry, just an IBM Redbook, and a warning about tree roots

    JonTate 110000B0RP | | Comment (1) | Visits (23907)
    Just over a week or so ago we completed the ITSO Redbook residency to create a book based on the SAN Volume Controller and the IBM FlashSystem 820. Now, normally we like to get these things out very quickly and the team, Danny Bryant, Christian Burns, Joao Marcos Leite, and Denis Senin worked very...   [Continue Reading]


    Tags:  820 flashsystem svc

    Living life on the Edge - Storwize V7000 and SANSlide IBM Redpaper

    JonTate 110000B0RP | | Comment (1) | Visits (23388)
    A quick update from IBM Edge2013 at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, and we are very pleased to have launched, announced, published as a draft paper the results of work that we have been doing with a company called Bridgeworks, and their SANSlide product. They are here at Edge and we were able to fine...   [Continue Reading]

    Configuring IBM Storwize V7000 and SVC for Optimal Performance ... next parts soon

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Comments (2) | Visits (12186)
      I know its been a long time since I posted the first to parts in my "optimal performance" series, and I've been promising parts 3 and 4 for some time, but they are more or less written - well the basic information has been distilled into a presentation... The world exclusive for...   [Continue Reading]

    Flash - but not Gordon, just an IBM Redpaper

    JonTate 110000B0RP | | Visits (23821)
    It is hard to look anywhere these days without seeing Flash being used. I think the word that marketing like to use, unless it has fallen out of favour is "pervasive". Mind you in the hands of some people it is definitely moving from "pervasive" to "invasive" but...   [Continue Reading]


    Tags:  practice performance flash flashsystem best redbooks svc guidelines v7000 820

    Sharpen your IT skills at IBM Edge2013

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Visits (10035)
    Less than two weeks to go before the start of the IBM Edge 2013 conference in Las Vegas. I've finally finished my presentations for the two main sessions I am hosting as part of the Virtualization track Monday 10th 9:30am Session 1610 A Brief History of SVC and Storwize Family : What, How, Why?...   [Continue Reading]


    Tags:  svc virtualization storwize ibmedge edge

    SVC - Vplex - Invista - software?!

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Visits (9245)
    Just a quick one - while having a scan through IBM's new(ish) ability to review products on its main website, I found this : http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/virtualization/svc/reviews.html   It did make me chukkle... its cetainly no Invista either - and all this talk of...   [Continue Reading]

    IBM Redbooks now appearing at an Apple iBookstore near you!

    JonTate 110000B0RP | | Visits (24632)
    We are delighted to announce an exciting addition to the distribution channel of  IBM Redbooks – now available at the Apple iBookstore is the ability to download, for free, (I probably should add some disclaimer about network charges may apply so this is it!) selected books. Not all books...   [Continue Reading]

    Introducing Jon Tate - "Mr IBM Redbooks"

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Visits (7219)
    Hi all, I'd like to introduce Jon Tate who has been added as a co-author to my blog. Jon is known to the team here as "Mr IBM Redbooks" - and will be posting about new publications, any new residencies that are available etc, specifically related to storage and networking.   Here...   [Continue Reading]

    IBM FlashSystem - and the future

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Visits (7389)
    I was recently interview by Antony Ashead at ComputerWeekly to fill in some details behind IBM's recent FlashSystem announcements. To see Antony's write up, check out his article :...   [Continue Reading]

    SVC Storwize User Group 8th May - Agenda and Registration

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Visits (10735)
    Your Personal Invitation to the SVC and Storwize V7000 User Group Meeting This is an unrivalled opportunity for you to meet with and talk to IBM’s leading SVC and IBM Storwize V7000 subject matter experts. Our team will formally present their views on the strategic directions of SVC and IBM...   [Continue Reading]

    New Flexible Hardware SVC CG8 Upgrades

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    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Comments (7) | Visits (21682)
    One of the internal, and IBM Business Partner mailing groups I subscribe and participate in ( Hi to all on Diskcore ) recently debated : Want to know whether IBM V3700 are true symmetric active active controllers. A response was made, but also asked : Can you define what you or the customer...   [Continue Reading]


    Tags:  v7000 flex v3500 alua storwize svc v3700

    Next UK (EU) SVC V7000 V3700 Storwize User Group - 8th May - Registration details

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Comments (5) | Visits (10370)
    Hi all, Happy New Year (are we almost in February already!)   This is just a quick heads up, the next UK based SVC, Storwize family User Group meeting is planned for the 8th of May 2013. To register, see here :...   [Continue Reading]


    Tags:  user_group virtaulizartion stowize storage v7000 svc

    Open Forum - Q & A #5

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Comments (72) | Visits (33069)
    As I try to get back to more regular posting, Part 3 of Configuring for Optimal Performance is getting its final polish to post hopefully next week. Meanwhile its some time since I opened this up for your questions.   This is Q & A #5, so feel free to ask away. Obviously I can't discuss...   [Continue Reading]


    Tags:  storwize virtualization svc storage v7000

    Introducing the IBM Storwize V3700

    orbist 060000HPM5 | | Comments (28) | Visits (56417)
    As you may have seen, today IBM announced the next product in the Storwize family, the IBM Storwize V3700. The Stowize V3700 builds on the amazing success that the Storwize V7000 has seen in the last two years- and of course SVC has had in the market for almost 10 years now. I could use the work...   [Continue Reading]


    Tags:  v7000 v3700 virtualization svc storwize storage
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