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Status Future consideration
Workspace PowerVC
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 16, 2019

RELATED IDEAS

Split host definition in SVC into 2 entries to avoid degraded hosts

PowerVC creates a single host definition in SVC and adds all VFC WWPNs (active ones and inactive ones used during LPM) to it. This results in a SVC host definition, which is always marked as degraded. Customers usually creating 2 host definitions (one with all active VFC WWPNs and one with all inactive VFC WWPNs).

It would be very useful to have this option also in the PowerVC Cinder driver (maybe even as default).

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 16, 2023

    Small update on this topic: With Storewize version 8.3.x it is possible to setup a redundancy policy for hosts. Setting it to 50% would mark the host as online and no longer degraded, as soon as at least half of the ports/wwpns are online. Details can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/flashsystem-9x00/8.3.x?topic=commands-chhost

    So, I don't think that we need to add the feature anymore in PowerVC, to allow split host definitions on Storewize products. But we should mention this redundancy policy in the PowerVC documentation.

  • Guest
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    |     Sep 9, 2020

    Thank you for your suggestion - we will consider this for a future release.

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