Tag Archives: IBM
Shellshock and IBM SVC and Storwize products
While blogging last week about how various vendors have responded to the Shellshock exploit, I noted that several vendors, notably Oracle and Cisco were open about products that they did not yet have a fix for. IBM meanwhile … Continue reading
Potential for Defeating 3584 I/O Station Lock Mechanism Exposing User to Class II Laser
Just spotted this alert and thought it very much worth sharing. There are huge numbers of 3584 (TS3500) Tape Libraries out there in the world and in my experience they are a truly reliable and stable platform for automated tape … Continue reading
IBM Scripting Tools for SVC and Storwize has been updated
The Rebalance script for IBM SVC has been updated. This is the first update I have seen since 2010. This release of the SVCTools package will now work on the Storwize family of products without modification and it can … Continue reading
Posted in IBM, IBM Storage, SAN, Storwize V3700, Storwize V7000, SVC
Tagged IBM, IBM DeveloperWorks, Perl, SVC
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Murphys Law in Action
A friend of mine recently had a problem while installing a new SAN24B-4 (an IBM 2498B24, which is a rebadged Brocade 300 Fibre Channel switch). The problem was simple: It was dead. The switch would not power up. Swapping … Continue reading
Posted in Brocade, IBM, SAN
Tagged Brocade, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel switch, IBM, Storage area network
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Enhancement requests for IBM SVC and Storwize V7000
If you have ever wanted to suggest ways to enhance IBM products you should check out the IBM RFE Page here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/ I was blissful unaware of this page so found it rather fascinating to check out some of the … Continue reading
Posted in IBM, IBM Storage, Storwize V3700, Storwize V7000, SVC
Tagged IBM, Storwize, Storwize V7000
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Storwize V3700 – First impressions
The IBM Storwize V7000 has a new stable mate: IBM’s hot new seller, the Storwize V3700. I recently got a chance to try one out and I liked what I saw. I have always tried to share useful information on … Continue reading
Posted in IBM, IBM Storage, Storwize V3700, Storwize V7000, Uncategorized
Tagged IBM, IBM Storwize, Storwize, Storwize V3700, Storwize V7000
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The evolution of IBM SVC connection choices
IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) has offered Fibre Channel Storage Virtualization since June 2003. Two SVC nodes communicate with each other via fibre channel to form a high availability I/O group. They then communicate with the storage that they virtualize via Fibre … Continue reading
Posted in Brocade, Cisco, SAN, Storwize V7000, SVC
Tagged Data center bridging, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, IBM, ISCSI, Storwize, Storwize V7000, SVC
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