Tag Archives: Graphical user interface

Storwize V7000 and SVC Performance Monitoring

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Anthony Vandewerdt

I have previously blogged about the Performance monitoring panel that IBM added to the  Storwize V7000 and SVC GUI.   You can find that post with links to some YouTube videos here.   IBM introduced this panel in version V6.2 of … Continue reading →

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XIV Release 3.1 materials – including a really cool video

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Anthony Vandewerdt

If you are interested in the current state of play with XIV, there are a huge number of new resources that have been created or updated as part of the XIV 3.1 update, so I thought I would give you … Continue reading →

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XIV Release 3.1 – SSD Read Cache is go!

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Anthony Vandewerdt

In July last year I blogged about a brief history of XIV. In that post I detailed how the XIV began as the Nextra, was then released as the IBM XIV and then updated to the XIV Gen3. So this … Continue reading →

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Storwize V7000 and SVC Release 6.3.0.1 is available for download

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Anthony Vandewerdt

The first update for Storwize V7000 and SVC release 6.3 is now available.   You will find it here for Storwize V7000 and here for SVC (note both links will require you to login to Fix Central with your IBM ID).    As usual … Continue reading →

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XIV Host Attachment Kit 1.7.1 is now available

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Anthony Vandewerdt

One of the many tools in your XIV toolkit is the Host Attachment Kit or HAK.  Two of my favorite commands provided by the HAK are  xiv_attach and xiv_fc_admin which we use to configure our hosts.  Of course users want to … Continue reading →

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XIV GUI versus XIV CLI

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Anthony Vandewerdt

The XIV GUI (which you can download here) is available for a very wide variety of platforms: AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 HP-UX 11i v2, 11i v3 Linux (RHEL 5, SLES 10 and 11) Mac OS X 10.6 Solaris 9 and 10 … Continue reading →

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Storwize V7000 and SVC Code release 6.3 is now available

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Anthony Vandewerdt

The latest release of SVC and Storwize V7000 firmware is now available for download.   The major new features that are added with this release are: Global Mirror with Change Volumes Native LDAP Authentication Extended distance split clusters (for SVC) … Continue reading →

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Google isn’t helping! What went wrong?

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Anthony Vandewerdt

WordPress as a blogging platform has some very nice features.    One of them is that you can find out what search terms led people to your blog.   I have noticed that searches like these have become very common: … Continue reading →

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