DS8882F - CKD Storage in a Manageable Footprint
Overall Satisfaction with IBM System Storage DS8000
We use our DS8882F for our mainframe infrastructure across the whole organization. It addresses the business problem of providing CKD storage in a rack mounted system that can fit in our data center. Its all-flash configuration enables us to run mainframe workloads with the lowest possible latency, helping us establish a testing environment for the setups we implement at other clients.
- Copy Services
- Disaster Recovery
- High throughput
- I have seen the GUI say that the storage facility is inaccessible, even when getting a clean health check from IBM. Typically rebooting the HMC fixes this.
- When decommissioning a box, you cannot delete arrays until ranks are done formatting. This adds a lot of time to the decomm process
- IO ports do not have a topology by default
- The DS8882 allows us to run CKD mainframe workloads in a data center that cannot fit a new rack for a larger DS8886
- Allows training of new employees on mainframe storage concepts for implementation at other clients
- Runs jobs to process SMF data to provide our clients with performance analysis
DS8882F provides CKD storage in a manageable footprint. Its advantage over FlashSystem is its interoperability with IBM Z Systems.