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| IBM Spectrum Virtualize software capabilities are offered across a variety of platforms, including SAN Volume Controller (SVC), Storwize V7000 (Unified), Storwize V5000, Storwize V3700, Storwize V3500, and FlashSystem V9000. | IBM Spectrum Virtualize software capabilities are offered across a variety of platforms, including SAN Volume Controller (SVC), Storwize V7000 (Unified), Storwize V5000, Storwize V3700, Storwize V3500, and FlashSystem V9000. | ||
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| + | ===== V8.7.3 ===== | ||
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| + | 08-04-2025 | ||
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| + | The following new features have been introduced in the 8.7.3.0 release: | ||
| + | * FlashSystem grid dashboard for visualization and monitoring on all systems in the grid. | ||
| + | * Enhancements to storage partition migration for non-disruptive data movement between systems, including: | ||
| + | * GUI support for initiating, monitoring and managing partition migration. | ||
| + | * Support for partition migration with disaster recovery. | ||
| + | * Partition migration while managing snapshots and Safeguarded Copies. | ||
| + | * SCSI Persistent Reserve support for iSCSI hosts in partitions. | ||
| + | * Support for highly available snapshots, including snapshot restore without loss of HA. | ||
| + | * Enhancements for monitoring high availability and disaster recovery, showing progress and estimated completion time for volume group and partition synchronization. | ||
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| + | ===== V8.7.2 ===== | ||
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| + | 25-02-2025 | ||
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| + | The following new features have been introduced in the 8.7.2.0 release: | ||
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| + | * Support for iSCSI hosts in HA partitions. | ||
| + | * Support for SCSI Persistent Reservations for volumes in storage partitions. | ||
| + | * Support for internal key management for encrypted data-at-rest. | ||
| + | * Single point of administration for health reporting for objects in a FlashSystem grid. | ||
| + | * Support for more than 16 NVMe over Fibre Channel hosts. | ||
| + | * Policy-based replication can be configured on image mode volumes to allow for a migration from external storage, while maintaining any existing replication on the virtualized storage during the migration. | ||
| + | * Volumes or volume groups that are replicated or in highly available storage partitions can be restored or refreshed from a snapshot. | ||
| + | * Improvements for better granularity for iSCSI 2-way CHAP authentication and FIPS compliance for iSCSI hosts. | ||
| + | * Support for VLAN tagging on management networks for Service IP addresses. | ||
| + | * Support for creating a standard child pool in a standard parent pool without specifying a quota. | ||
| + | * Host offline alerts can be enabled or disabled on a per-host basis. | ||
| + | * Enhancements for Ransomware Threat Detection by introducing volume group awareness for systems with IBM FlashCore Module (FCM4) firmware 4.2 or later. | ||
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| + | __The following features are no longer supported from 8.7.1.0 and later:__ | ||
| + | * Remote Copy; this includes Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, HyperSwap and Volume Mobility. | ||
| + | * These features have been superseded by Policy-based replication and Policy-based HA. Systems using Remote Copy cannot upgrade to 8.7.1 or later. | ||
| + | * Replication capabilities are removed from the FlashSystem 5015 and FlashSystem 5035 as these do not support Policy-based replication or Policy-based High Availability. | ||
| + | * Multiple I/O groups: | ||
| + | * FlashSystem grid is the new way to scale-out FlashSystem and SAN Volume Controller systems. Systems with multiple I/O groups cannot upgrade to this version. | ||
| + | * SAN Volume Controller (but not FlashSystem) will allow multiple I/O groups to be configured on the next long-term support (LTS) release. | ||
| + | * Ethernet-based clustering | ||
| + | * iSER host attach | ||
| + | * Nondistributed RAID | ||
| ===== V8.7 ===== | ===== V8.7 ===== | ||
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| Version 8.7.0 enhances policy-based high availability with local access reads and writes. It also delivers software support to enable flash grid and non-disruptive workload mobility features on Storage Insights. | Version 8.7.0 enhances policy-based high availability with local access reads and writes. It also delivers software support to enable flash grid and non-disruptive workload mobility features on Storage Insights. | ||
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| + | * Introduction of Flash Grids. | ||
| + | * Enhancements for Ransomware Threat Detection and Snapshots by introducing Filesystem awareness for ransomware detection and Storage Insights Pro entitlement Information. | ||
| + | * Introduced support for Policy-based High Availability and Policy-based Replication for the IBM FlashSystem 5045. | ||
| + | * Policy-based high availability allows for hosts to have a location defined, allowing for local-site I/O access to avoid cross-ISL traffic. | ||
| + | * Adds support for Policy-based replication to be used on a different partnership for different volume groups while Policy-based High Availability is configured. | ||
| + | * Automatic download of compatible security patches to the system. | ||
| + | * Automatic update of candidate FlashCore Modules. | ||
| + | * Improvements to the GUI Performance Monitoring screens. | ||
| + | * Introduced the ability for VMware and other operating systems to detect that they are connected to Flash type storage. | ||
| + | * User-configurable default grain size for new Volume Group Snapshots and FlashCopy Mappings. | ||
| + | * The ability to convert thin-clone copies to clone copies. | ||
| + | * Fast path Ethernet and VLAN support for Management IP addresses. | ||
| + | * Increase in the number of Ethernet partnerships with RDMA. | ||
| + | * Updates/guides to provide Performance statistics using the REST API. | ||
| + | * TLS connection to send syslog notifications and messages. | ||
| + | * New filename format for software packages. | ||
| + | * Policy-based high availability can now be used with AIX. | ||
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| + | ===== V8.6.3 ===== | ||
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| + | * Support for ransomware threat detection. | ||
| + | * Support for internal TCT backup scheduler. | ||
| + | * Support for migrating storage partitions non-disruptively between systems. | ||
| + | * Support for merging storage partitions. | ||
| + | * Support for creating storage partitions and importing existing volume groups. | ||
| + | * Support for additional CHAP algorithms for iSCSI hosts. | ||
| + | * Support for new SSH security level. | ||
| + | * Support for IBMi in Direct Attach mode when NPIV has been enabled. | ||
| + | * Newly-created systems prioritise the user experience of new features by disabling some capabilities within the system. The disabled capabilities can be enabled if needed using the CLI or GUI. | ||
| + | * The default experience for replication is policy-based replication and policy-based high availability instead of Remote Copy. Remote Copy features are disabled on new systems unless enabled. | ||
| + | * New features such as policy-based HA, vVols replication and storage partition migration support a maximum of one I/O group in a system. Adding a second I/O group requires support to be enabled. | ||
| + | * Support for FlashSystem 5300. | ||
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| ===== V8.6.2.1 ===== | ===== V8.6.2.1 ===== | ||
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