IBM Support in Senegal After End of Life
ICD supplies tested Storwize, Power Systems and tape components into Senegal from Cairo inside the published West Africa band, including the drives an over-committed pool needs before it stops serving.
IBM Hardware We Keep Running in Senegal
Storwize and Power components supplied so a pool has the capacity its volumes were promised.
Disks the pool can absorb to recover physical headroom
Enclosures and CanistersShelf hardware to extend a pool that has run short
Power SystemsFrames carrying Senegalese production past their support date
MemoryModules seated where this frame was configured to expect them
Tape Drives and MediaDrives, magazines and the cartridges a library gets through
Adapters and OpticsHost and fabric cards selected for the opposing port
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Frequently Asked Questions
Thin provisioning, pool capacity and the Senegal lane.
IBM Support in Senegal After End of Life
Several volumes going offline simultaneously while every host reports free space is not a contradiction. Both statements are true. The hosts are describing the size they were presented with, and the pool underneath them has run out of the physical capacity that was never actually behind those promises.
Presented Size and Physical Capacity Are Different Numbers
Thin provisioning lets an array present a volume at its declared size while consuming only what has been written to it. That is efficient and intentional: capacity is bought as it is needed rather than reserved at definition time. It also means the total presented can exceed the total held. The arrangement works until written data catches up with physical capacity, and then there is nothing left to give.
Hosts are structurally unable to see it
A host knows the size of the volume it was given and how much of that it has used. It has no view of the pool beneath, of what other hosts have been promised, or of how much physical capacity remains. So every host can report healthy free space, accurately, right up to the moment the array can no longer honour the next write.
Taking volumes offline is the protective choice
Faced with a write it cannot place, the array stops rather than corrupts. That is correct and it is abrupt: multiple volumes across unrelated systems become unavailable together, which looks like a major array failure rather than a capacity event. On out-of-support hardware, where nobody is reviewing utilisation reports, the first sign is usually the outage itself.
What ICD Supplies for IBM Estates in Senegal
Drives the pool can absorb to recover headroom, enclosures and canisters where a pool must be extended, Storwize and flash hardware, Power Systems frames and boards, memory in the placement the frame was ordered with, tape drives and media, and host and fabric adapters chosen against the far-side port. Senegal is on the published West Africa lane at 5 to 7 days from Cairo. Each unit is checked under load, serial-recorded, and covered one to three years.