Tag Archives: SVC

A simple way to visualize IBM SVC/Storwize performance

Posted on 21.03.2018 by mezzantrop

Recently I wrote a set of tools to collect and display in CLI performance statistic of IBM Spectrum Virtualize: SVC and Storwize systems. Using various protocols it’s possible to get both detailed performance for each vdisk, mdisk or drive as … Continue reading →

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My article about scripting is included into the “IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 Best Practices and Performance Guidelines” Redbook

Posted on 16.01.2018 by mezzantrop

The latest draft of the famous “IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000 Best Practices and Performance Guidelines” book is already on the IBM Redbooks site. And this year I was lucky to take part in writing it. … Continue reading →

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svcstats.py – Report IBM SVC/Storwize storage system performance statistics in CLI using SMI-S interface

Posted on 28.09.2017 by mezzantrop

My *stat-like utility to report IBM SVC/Storwize storage system performance statistics in CLI using SMI-S interface. Report IBM SVC/Storwize storage system performance statistics in CLI using SMI-S interface Requires Python 3 with ‘pywbem’ module Before running svcstats.py, enable statistic on … Continue reading →

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Executing a batch of commands on multiple IBM SVC/Storwize storage systems

Posted on 15.09.2017 by mezzantrop

Sometimes you have to change several configuration parameters or run multiple commands over a list of IBM SVC storage systems. Here is my small Python 3 script to do the stuff quickly. It requires Paramikoย module to handle SSH interactions. Edit … Continue reading →

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Scan IBM SVC/Storwize system for “SCSI ID Mismatches”

Posted on 01.09.2017 by mezzantrop

A small addition to the SAN/Storage CLI Toolbox which shows so called SCSI ID (LUN) mismatches on IBM SVC/Storwize systems.ย This Bourne shell/awk script shows the list of the same vdisks that are mapped with different SCSI IDs. Should be useful … Continue reading →

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Accessing IBM SVC/Storwize devices with Python and SSH

Posted on 20.06.2017 by mezzantrop

Recently I have posted a simple example of how to fetch storage related data from IBM Spectrum Control with the help of Python and REST API. Now lets turn the power of Python to access IBM Storwize or SVC system … Continue reading →

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