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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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| + | ===== V9.1 ===== | ||
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| + | Not yet available | ||
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| + | The following new features have been introduced in the 9.1.0.0 release: | ||
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| + | **Policy Based HA** | ||
| + | * Volume resize | ||
| + | * HostCluster | ||
| + | * 3 sites support and orchestration (v8.7.1) | ||
| + | * HA snapshot (including safeguarded v8.7.3)) | ||
| + | * HA restore | ||
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| ===== V8.7.3 ===== | ===== V8.7.3 ===== | ||
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| * Support for highly available snapshots, including snapshot restore without loss of HA. | * 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. | * 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. | ||
| __The following features are no longer supported from 8.7.1.0 and later:__ | __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. | * 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. | + | * 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. | * 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: | * Multiple I/O groups: | ||
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| * iSER host attach | * iSER host attach | ||
| * Nondistributed RAID | * Nondistributed RAID | ||
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| ===== V8.7 ===== | ===== V8.7 ===== | ||
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| * Spectrum Virtualize Software V7.5 also now supports direct 16 Gbps Fibre Channel (except for AIX), Mircosoft Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX), VMware vSphere 6, and the underlying infrastructure for VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols). | * Spectrum Virtualize Software V7.5 also now supports direct 16 Gbps Fibre Channel (except for AIX), Mircosoft Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX), VMware vSphere 6, and the underlying infrastructure for VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols). | ||
| - | ===== V7.4 (EOS) ===== | + | ===== V7.4 ===== |
| * Real-time Compression running with dual instances | * Real-time Compression running with dual instances | ||
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| * Storwize V7000 and Storwize V5000 new software license structure and pricing | * Storwize V7000 and Storwize V5000 new software license structure and pricing | ||
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| - | ===== IBM Spectrum Virtualize Life Cycle ===== | + | ===== IBM Storage Virtualize Life Cycle ===== |
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| - | **05-2017** | + | |
| - | ^Program Number ^VRM ^Announced ^Available ^Marketing Withdrawn ^Service Discontinued | + | **05-2025** |
| - | |5641-VC7 |07.08.01 |2017-02-28 |2017-03-17 |- |-| | + | version 8.4 EOS 12-2024\\ |
| - | |5641-VC7 |07.08.00 |2016-11-02 |2016-12-09 |- |-| | + | All other previous versions are EOS |
| - | |5641-VC7 |07.07.01 |2016-08-23 |2016-09-16 |- |-| | + | |
| - | |5641-VC7 |07.07.00 |2016-05-24 |2016-06-10 |- |-| | + | |
| - | |5641-VC7 |07.06.00 |2015-10-06 |2015-11-27 |- |-| | + | |
| - | |5641-VC7 |07.05.00 |2015-05-11 |2015-06-05 |- |-| | + | |
| - | |5641-VC7 |07.04.00 |2014-10-28 |2014-11-28 |2017-07-21 |2018-04-27| | + | |
| - | |5641-VC7 |07.03.00 |2014-05-06 |2014-06-06 |2017-07-21 |2017-09-30| | + | |
| - | |5641-VC7 |07.02.00 |2013-10-08 |2013-11-29 |2017-07-21 |2017-04-26| | + | |
| - | |5641-VC7 |07.01.00 |2013-06-10 |2013-06-14 |2014-12-12 |2017-04-26| | + | |
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