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Status Future consideration
Workspace PowerVC
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 22, 2024

PowerVC support for Storage Virtualize Safeguarded Snapshots (SGC 2.0)

As an IBM business partner we have several customers using an IBM SAN Volume Controller stretched-cluster configuration with PowerVC for Private Cloud.
The customers are interested in a Safeguarded Copy cyber resiliency solution but it  cannot be realized due to missing support by PowerVC for safeguarded snapshots (aka SGC 2.0).

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jul 23, 2024
    Thank you for your suggestion - we will consider this for a future release
  • Guest
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    Jul 23, 2024

    Just to further clarify: This request is not for PowerVC to create safeguarded snapshots but to use the newer Storage Virtualize snapshot technology (aka FlashCopy 2.0) instead of the legacy FlashCopy for its VM capture & deployment functions. The fact that PowerVC still uses FlashCopy makes it incompatible with a safeguarded snapshot cyber-resiliency solution required by our customers because by design for a volume with existing snapshots no new FlashCopies can be created.