Spectrum Control provides analytics-driven storage management and efficient infrastructure management for virtualized, cloud, and software-defined storage to simplify and automate storage provisioning, capacity management, availability monitoring, and reporting. IBM Spectrum Control communicates with Storwize V7000 storage systems through a native interface. Use IBM Spectrum Control to monitor Storwize V7000 systems, including discovery, data collection (probes), performance monitoring, trending, storage optimization, and provisioning. IBM Spectrum Control reports and topology views also provide information about the tier, tier capacity, and tier free capacity for Storwize V7000. Incorrect Answers:B: IBM Easy Tier does not address capacity management.Note: IBM Easy Tier is a performance function that automatically migrates or moves the extents of a volume to, or from, flash storage to hard disk drive (HDD) storage. Easy Tier monitors the host I/O activity and latency on the extent of all volumes with the Easy Tier function turned on, in a multitiered storage pool, over a 24-hour period. It then creates an extent migration plan based on this activity, and then dynamically moves high activity (or hot) extents to a higher disk tier within the storage pool. It also moves extent activity that has dropped off (or cooled) from the high-tiered MDisk back to a lower-tiered MDisk. C: IBM Spectrum Archive, a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage family, enables direct, intuitive and graphical access to data stored in IBM tape drives and libraries by incorporating the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) format standard for reading, writing and exchanging descriptive metadata on formatted tape cartridges. References: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS5R93_5.2.10/com.ibm.spectrum.sc.doc/fqz0_r_planning_storwize.html
Spectrum Control provides analytics-driven storage management and efficient infrastructure management for virtualized, cloud, and software-defined storage to simplify and automate storage provisioning, capacity management, availability monitoring, and reporting.
IBM Spectrum Control communicates with Storwize V7000 storage systems through a native interface.
Use IBM Spectrum Control to monitor Storwize V7000 systems, including discovery, data collection (probes), performance monitoring, trending, storage optimization, and provisioning. IBM Spectrum Control reports and topology views also provide information about the tier, tier capacity, and tier free capacity for Storwize V7000.
Incorrect Answers:
B: IBM Easy Tier does not address capacity management.
Note: IBM Easy Tier is a performance function that automatically migrates or moves the extents of a volume to, or from, flash storage to hard disk drive (HDD) storage. Easy Tier monitors the host I/O activity and latency on the extent of all volumes with the Easy Tier function turned on, in a multitiered storage pool, over a 24-hour period.
It then creates an extent migration plan based on this activity, and then dynamically moves high activity (or hot) extents to a higher disk tier within the storage pool. It also moves extent activity that has dropped off (or cooled) from the high-tiered MDisk back to a lower-tiered MDisk.
C: IBM Spectrum Archive, a member of the IBM Spectrum Storage family, enables direct, intuitive and graphical access to data stored in IBM tape drives and libraries by incorporating the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) format standard for reading, writing and exchanging descriptive metadata on formatted tape cartridges.
References: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS5R93_5.2.10/com.ibm.spectrum.sc.doc/fqz0_r_planning_storwize.html