IBM XIV User Manual

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Access Control:
User Category Permission Condition
Storage administrator Allowed N/A
Storage integration administrator Allowed N/A
Application administrator Conditionally Allowed At least one of the volumes in
the master Consistency Group is
mapped to a host or cluster
associated with the user and
Snapshot Group was created by
a server administrator
Security administrator Disallowed N/A
Read-only users Disallowed N/A
Technicians Disallowed N/A
Completion Codes:
v SNAPSHOT_GROUP_BAD_NAME
Snapshot Group name does not exist.
v SNAPSHOT_IS_MAPPED
Snapshot that is mapped to a host cannot be deleted
v SNAPSHOT_HAS_ACTIVE_SYNC_JOB
Snapshot is currently a target of an active sync job
Troubleshooting: Please wait for sync job to complete
Disbanding a Snapshot Group
Disbands a snapshot group into independent snapshots.
snap_group_disband snap_group=SnapshotGroupName
Parameters:
Name Type Description Mandatory
snap_group Object name Snapshot group to be
disbanded.
Y
This command disbands the snapshot group into independent snapshots. After
executing this command the snapshots can be individually deleted, restored,
unlocked, duplicated and so on. The snapshot group does not exist anymore after
this command. The snapshots retain the same names
(snap_group_name.volumename).
The command is inapplicable for a snapshot group of a mirrored Consistency
Group.
Example:
snap_group_disband snap_group=DBbackup_copy
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IBM XIV Specifications

General

Power Supply	Redundant power supplies
Drive Type	SATA
Redundancy	Fully redundant components
Connectivity	Fibre Channel, iSCSI
Form Factor	Rack-mounted
Cache	Distributed cache across modules
Data Protection	Snapshots, remote mirroring
Performance	High throughput and low latency
Scalability	Modular, scale-out architecture
Cooling	Redundant cooling
Architecture	Grid-based, distributed architecture