Summary of changes
This section describes the technical changes made in this edition of the book and in previous editions. This edition might also include minor corrections and editorial changes that are not identified.
Summary of Changes
for SG24-8323-01
for IBM DS8880 Architecture and Implementation (Release 8.1)
as created or updated on September 8, 2016.
September 2016, Second Edition
This revision includes the following new and changed information.
New information
•Introduced DS8888 Model 982 with its Expansion Unit Model 98F
•Three phase power for DS8886 and DS8888
•RAID 10 support for high-performance flash enclosure (HPFE)
•Support for small extents and thin provisioned IBM FlashCopy® targets for both Open and IBM System z® volumes.
•SuperPAV
•IBM DB2® castout accelerator
•Copy Services on HMC (for more information, see IBM DS8880 Integrated Copy Services Manager and LDAP Client on the HMC, REDP-5356)
•KMIP support for encryption key manager (for more information, see IBM DS8880 Data-at-rest Encryption, REDP-4500)
Changed information
•Various GUI changes in support of new or enhanced functions
•Syslog support for auditlog
•Virtualization information to reflect use of small extents pools and volumes