What's new for IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.11

Learn about the latest features and changes that are available in IBM Spectrum® Control 5.4.11.

Streamlining product names for an enhanced experience

To enhance your experience with our products and to provide a more streamlined set of solutions, IBM Storage is aligning the names of products and product bundles across its portfolio. This renaming effort is solution-focused and can help accelerate your ability to identify the storage products that you need, where and when you need them.

What's the impact? While the name of IBM Spectrum Control remain the same, many of the products that they monitor are updated. The updated names are shown on the IBM website, in the product-related GUIs and publications, and in the GUI and documentation for IBM Spectrum Control.

Table 1. Check out the following product names that are changed as part of the 5.4.11 update:
Current product name	New product name
DS8000	No change
IBM DS8000	IBM Storage DS8000
IBM FlashSystem	IBM Storage FlashSystem
FlashSystem family	No change
IBM Spectrum Virtualize storage system	IBM Storage Virtualize storage system
IBM Spectrum Virtualize as Software Only	IBM Storage Virtualize as Software Only
IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud	IBM Storage Virtualize for Public Cloud
IBM Spectrum Scale	IBM Storage Scale
Spectrum Scale	IBM Storage Scale
IBM Spectrum Protect	IBM Storage Protect
IBM Spectrum Fusion	IBM Storage Fusion
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Online Services	IBM Storage Protect for Cloud
IBM Spectrum Sentinel	IBM Storage Sentinel
IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management	IBM Storage Copy Data Management

Learn more about the new feature.

Introducing volume group

You can now monitor and view information about the volume groups for IBM Storage Virtualize storage systems. This information includes the number of volumes in a volume group, the replication state, its snapshot policy, rollup server connection and much more. You can also measure the performance of a volume group such as the average and maximum recovery time in seconds, number of replication writes, and number of blocks that are replicated.

To view the volume groups for a storage system, go to Storage > Right-click a storage system, and select View Details. Then, click Volume Groups in Internal resources section.

Learn more about volume groups

Hitachi Ops Center support

You can now add Hitachi VSP storage system using Hitachi Ops Manager in IBM Spectrum Control.

While adding the new Hitachi storage system for Ops center, if you enable Performance Monitoring check box, then you will have to fill the Ops center analyser detail view fields. To add a new Hitachi storage system for Ops center, go to Add Storage systems and select Hitachi. Learn more about the Hitachi Ops Center.

If you enable performance monitoring while adding new Hitachi storage system for Ops center, then the Ops center analyser detail view fields are also available for any modification in the already added Hitachi storage system. To update the fields, go to Resources > Block Storage Systems, right-click the storage system, and then click Connections > Modify Connection.

In Data collection schedule, you can specify the time interval for monitoring the performance. To view Data collection schedule, right-click on Hitachi storage system and select Data Collection > Schedule.

Note: Hitachi Command Suite is not supported on AIX platform.

Important: For IBM Spectrum Control installed on RHEL (x86-64): Spectrum Control version 5.4.11 is only supported on RHEL 8 (all versions). Do not install or upgrade to IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.11 on RHEL 7 (all versions) or earlier as it leads to an unstable environment and loss of access.

Product fixes and security updates

In every release of IBM Spectrum Control, IBM fixes issues that are reported by our internal teams and by our customers. Along with fixes, improving the operation and security of the product is also a priority. See what's been updated and fixed in this release:

Limitations and known issues

For information about limitations and known issues that might occur when you use IBM Spectrum Control 5.4.11, see Limitations and known issues for IBM Spectrum Control.