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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Ability to clear HBA port counters from port statistics without reboot

Part of ongoing monitoring, and also as troubleshooting aid after a repair is completed, it would be great to have ability to clear FC HBA port statistics. Note: Counters referred to are the CRC errors, loss of sync, etc which can only be cleared ...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Per host PWWN data collection for IBM storage insights from IBM Storage Vritualise

The customer has a cluster of 5 hosts which uses a collection of 10 LUNS to get the production environment. When we see storage insights, the data collected is from the volumes in the storage and populated on the console. There's no data collected...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Migrate SVC volumes from/to pools with different extent sizes

Would it be possible to add a feature/fuction that volumes can be migrated from a pool to another where the pools (source and target pool) have different extent sizes? That would be verry helpful for migration tasks in long grown environments wher...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

implement an "auto" setting for volume mirror sync rate

currently the volume mirror sync rate can only be set to a fixed value. while it's great to have this real-time setting, it would be even more helpful to also have an "auto" setting for it to have the system decide at which rate it can sync/format...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Increase consistency group 512 volume maximum to at least 2048

Current IBMi client has 498 volumes running on FS9500. Existing DS8K systems each have over 1,500 volume, preventing them from using more FlashSystems. Minimum # of volumes would need to be 2,048 but more would account for future growth.
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

SSO login for CLI

For a while now, there's MFA SSO support for the Storage Virtualize GUI. However to comply with our internal security policy, we also need to enable this for CLI access to our storage systems. Please add CLI login support to the authentication met...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add an option to sendcloudcallhome to allow users to test that they will be able to get to new support IPs, before the old ones are removed.

There are occasional changes to the support ips ( for example: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6991259 ). It would be beneficial to be able to test connections to the new IPs before the old ones are removed. An option could be added to the ...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Allow longer names for flash copy related items.

Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect when using FCM and SVC: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controlle...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Warning when deleting volumes they still have snapshots associated with them.

Within the FlashSystem OS, when you delete a volume, the volume does not go away and remains in the system if there is a snapshot(s) associated with it. The OS does not tell you that it cannot delete, but simply places the volume in a delete(ing) ...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Improve alerting when "Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working

We have noticed that “Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working our 9500 arrays causing gaps in our performance data. This has happened before on our arrays and there is no alerting that tells us, either on the array, or within Storag...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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