User interfaces for VSP One Block

Dynamic Provisioning

Volume capacity virtualization

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Adaptive Data Reduction

Capacity reduction by compressing stored data and eliminating duplicate data

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Resource Partition Manager

Dividing storage resources by application or business unit

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Virtual LUN

Creating logical volumes of any size in a parity group

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

LUN Manager

Setting data I/O paths (LU paths) between hosts and logical volumes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Data Retention Utility

Setting access permissions on logical volumes

No

No

Yes

No

Quality of Service

Setting performance levels (I/O rates and transfer rates) for quality of service (QoS) volumes and QoS groups

Yes¹

Yes

Yes

Yes²

Volume Migration

Moving data on an operational volume to another volume

No

Yes

Yes⁷

Yes⁷

SNMP Agent, SNMP Manager

Storage monitoring with SNMP

Yes

No

No

Yes

Audit Log

Setting audit log functions

Yes

No

No

Yes

Encryption

Encrypting the data on the drives

Yes³

Yes⁴

Yes⁴

Yes

Universal Volume Manager

Using volumes in other vendors' storage systems

Yes^{5, 7}

Yes⁷

Yes⁷

Yes⁷

ShadowImage/ShadowImage for Mainframe¹¹

Copying volumes within the same storage system

Yes^{8, 9, 10}

Yes

Yes⁷

Yes (Partial support)⁷

Thin Image Advanced

Saving updated diffs (snapshots) of data in a storage system

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

TrueCopy

TrueCopy for Mainframe¹¹

Volume copy between remote bases (synchronous copy over short distances)

No

Yes⁷

Yes⁷

Yes^{7, 12}

Universal Replicator/Universal Replicator for Mainframe¹¹

Volume copy between remote locations (asynchronous copy over long distance)

No

Yes⁷

Yes⁷

Yes (Partial support)⁷

Global-active device

Redundant data with global-active device volume mirroring

Yes^{6, 7}

Yes⁷

Yes⁷

Yes⁷

Dynamic Carbon Reduction

Reduces power consumption and provides environmentally friendly functions that contribute to CO₂ reduction

No

Yes

Yes

No

Legend

• GUI: VSP One Block Administrator
• CLI: Embedded CCI
• CCI: CCI (host-based)
• API: REST API

Notes:

1. Partial support: VSP One Block Administrator supports QoS for each volume only.
2. Partial support: REST API supports QoS for each volume or upper limit value for QoS group.
3. Partial support: For details about encryption operations that can be performed with the GUI, see the VSP One Block Administrator User Guide.
4. Partial support: Embedded CCI and CCI support only encryption-enabled parity group creation.
5. Partial support: VSP One Block Administrator supports mapping of external storage system volumes only.
6. Partial support: VSP One Block Administrator supports only the configurations using consistency groups
7. The management tools that can be used for data migration differ depending on the status during migration, source storage system, and capacity of the source volume. For details, see the table below.
8. Partial support: VSP One Block Administrator cannot be used for ShadowImage for Mainframe.
9. Partial support: For details about ShadowImage operations that can be performed with the GUI, see the VSP One Block Administrator User Guide.
10. Partial support: VSP One Block Administrator supports only internal volumes.
11. "for Mainframe" refers to the storage system functionality required when you operate the storage system from an IBM® mainframe computer. For functional details of an IBM® mainframe computer, see IBM® documentations. For functional details about the storage system, see the following manuals:
    • Provisioning Guide for Mainframe Systems
    • ShadowImage for Mainframe User Guide
    • TrueCopy for Mainframe User Guide
    • Universal Replicator for Mainframe User Guide
12. Partial support: REST API does not support TrueCopy for Mainframe.

Running (online)

More than 4 TB

Yes

GAD

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Running (online)

4 TB or less

Yes

GAD

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Running (online)

Other

More than 4 TB

No

--

No

No

No

No

Running (online)

Other

4 TB or less

No

--

No

No

No

No

Stopped (offline)¹

More than 4 TB

Yes

VMI, UVM

No

No

No

Yes

Stopped (offline)^{1, 2, 3}

4 TB or less

Yes

VMI, UVM

No

No

Yes

Yes

Stopped (offline)¹

Other

More than 4 TB

Yes

VMI, UVM

No

No

No

Yes

Stopped (offline)^{1, 2, 3}

Other

4 TB or less

Yes

VMI, UVM

No

No

Yes

Yes

Stopped (offline)¹

More than 4 TB

Yes

SI, UVM

No

No

No

Yes

Stopped (offline)^{1, 2}

4 TB or less

Yes

SI, UVM

No

No

Yes

Yes

Stopped (offline)¹

Other

More than 4 TB

Yes

SI, UVM

No

No

No

Yes

Stopped (offline)^{1, 2}

Other

4 TB or less

Yes

SI, UVM

No

No

Yes

Yes

More than 4 TB

Yes

Stopped (offline)^{1, 2}

More than 4 TB

Yes

UR

No

No

Yes

Yes

Stopped (offline)^{1, 2}

4 TB or less

Yes

UR

No

No

Yes

Yes

Notes:

1. If you are considering to perform data migration using CCI under these requirements, contact customer support.
2. If you are considering to perform data migration using REST API under these requirements, contact customer support.
3. If you perform data migration using VSP One Block Administrator under these requirements, a server cannot issue I/Os to the migration target volumes until Volume Migration completes data copy after you map the volumes to the migration target storage system by using Universal Volume Manager. During this period of time, you need to stop operating the server. For details about the period during which the server cannot issue I/Os, see the VSP One Block Administrator User Guide.

   If you want to minimize the time the server operations are stopped, consider using CCI to perform data migration. If you use CCI, the server can issue I/Os to the migration target volumes even while Volume Migration is migrating data after the volumes are mapped using Universal Volume Manager.