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Status Planned for future release
Workspace GDPS
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 26, 2025

GDPS LCP Virtual volume threshold change

We have a SGC setup in my environment where as i monitor the Virtual volume capacity manually and expand when it reach 60 to 70%. One day i missed to expand for 2days and it full and we lost couple of SGC's. When i investigated about the threshold % its like Moderate on 85% and Critical on 95% and its throwing alert on NETLOGS.

My Idea here is to change the thresholds as per our requirements something like 50% for Moderate(GEO2974W ) and 75% for critical (GEO2975E ). so that i can keep automation in place to grab the alerts when it see's in the NETLOG.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Oct 30, 2025

    Not applicable to our configuration, but we support the idea.

  • Guest
    Oct 23, 2025

    We have the same requirement too. Thresholds are too high now to avoid risk of loosing captures/recovery possibilities.

  • Guest
    Oct 23, 2025

    It make sense to have lower value to allow time to respond to expansion action. It will be even better if there will be automatic expansion if threshold is reached.

  • Guest
    Oct 22, 2025

    LBG: We support this idea.

  • Guest
    Oct 21, 2025

    It helps, but having thresholds for SGC copies do not look to make much sense. It may happen to have other shops with different strategy, bu we carve the SGC disks with multipliers to contain 100% of each disk in the configuration, and there are only dozens of them actually with a high update rate. Most of them shows low or very low update rate. If we are not missing any technical limitation, since DS8k is using ESE (21GB) and thin provisioning, it could consider some more flexible space management for SGC.

  • Guest
    Oct 21, 2025

    This would be helpful to American Express as well. We are using Storage insights today, but would be nice to have the thresholds alert at lower capacities.

  • Guest
    Oct 21, 2025

    n/a

  • Guest
    Oct 21, 2025

    This is a reasonable request to us as well (wfc), we currently have to use storage insights to accomplish this alert.

  • Guest
    Oct 21, 2025

    JPMC would like this very much

  • Guest
    Oct 21, 2025

    Seems like a reasonable request, not a priority for 5/3