topic Re: IBM SAN Volume Controller in Operating System - OpenVMS

IBM SAN Volume Controller

James Cristofero — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:00:54 GMT

Any have exposure or use IBM SAN Volume Controller with XP24000's or other platforms?

Re: IBM SAN Volume Controller

marsh_1 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:46:56 GMT

hi,

seems a strange (and expensive) combination IBM SVC with an XP24K as both do san virtualization , if is this a general storage query then you would be better served posting in the storage forum here :-

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/familyhome.do?familyId=120&admit=109447626+1248767148981+28353475

does OpenVMS come into this at all and if so what are the versions/architectures involved and the reason for asking the question.

hth

Re: IBM SAN Volume Controller

James Cristofero — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:06:25 GMT

OpenVMS is invovled with the XP24000's. IBM SVC support is stating that this is supported.

However, I'm looking to see if there's any experience that may be familiar with such a configuration before we attempt to deploy it.

Re: IBM SAN Volume Controller

marsh_1 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:20:18 GMT

hi,

i had an alphaserver ds20e / vms v7.3-1 using svc volumes at my last place, no real issues, as far as i remember proper support for vms started at v7.3-2 (which was current at the time svc first came out) and onwards , some support for v7.3-1 was added after release 9 i believe there was a limitation in the number of luns able to be used).
svc is pretty quick but the licenses come in at some scary prices.
sounds like you already have an xp24k why not use that to virtualize your other storage ?

fwiw