IBM Storage Virtualisation Updates
IBM’s SVC has been around for a good few years now and it is by all accounts quite popular. It does a great job of aggregating lots of disparate storage (IBM and Non-IBM) and presenting through a more scalable and manageable interface.
Well SVC has had a make-over with the release of 4.3 and some of the key feature announced in the press release are:
- Space Efficient Virtual Disks – Or as everybody else calls it Thin Provisioning
- Space Efficient FlashCopy – Or as everybody else calls it Thin Provisioned Snapshots
- Virtual Disk Mirroring – Or as everybody else calls it High Availability
- Improved Interoperability – Or as everybody else calls it… err Improved Interoperability (Mac OS X Server and WIndows 2008)
All good stuff that is already available in something like DataCore and is a very welcome addition to a mature product.
