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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Enable/ Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path

Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path Technologie to encrypt FC Traffic between Server and Storage. Plus Traffic between SVC and Flashsystem and Flashsystem to Flashsystem. Why is this needed? It is needed for compliance under DORA and o...
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Create a hidden command to allow a change for the number of concurrent SSH connections to SVC/FLashSystem

The current limits of SVC/FlashSystem software to the admin connection limit the ability to run ansible playbooks and/or ssh automations during cluster migrations and can limit the ability to automate failovers of a large number of systems during ...
2 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Submitted

Provide the ability to change the system layer from Storage to Replication without requiring a resynch for systems with established partnerships to allow systems to participate in FlashSystem grid.

Currently, in order for a FlashSystem to participate in FlashSystem grid they have to be in the replication layer. Prior to 8.7.0 arrays were shipped in the storage layer by default. My client has 21 FlashSystem arrays and 18 of them are currently...
3 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Allow Replication Partnership via secondary management interface

We run a MS and need to onboard customers, sometimes, via replication.Our primary mgmt interface is used for internal replication and is completely out of bound from customer networks. Allowing the establishment of replication partnerships over th...
4 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage

FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.
9 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Add auto resize of target volumes when Refreshing a volume group

Currently if a VG refresh has a target volume that has been expanded, you have to manually shrink it before refreshing it from the source again. If we've already decided to refresh the volume, we don't expect any data to remain, so having to alway...
11 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Allow suppressing host offline alerts at host creation time

At a recent code level, the FlashSystem began sending email alerts to our on-call any time a host was offline, which happens frequently due to patching or any kind of other maintenance. Based on feedback from an RFE, there was the option to suppre...
14 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Automatic expand of a safeguarded copy child pool when it reaches the set threshold

If a child pool fills to maximum the copies contained in the pool would go offline. it would be useful if we could set auto expand to the pool that could grow in increments, therefore lowing the risk of loosing immutable copies. This would be usef...
16 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

HashiCorp Vault Key Management support for FlashSystem / TS7700

TS7700 using FlashSystem Storage supports KMIP for external Key Management. As Clients look to deploy HashiCorp Vault as their enterprise wide key management support is needed to incorporate IBM Storage Solutions.
16 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Improvement of error logs and alerts to register warnings and evidence of error source

Preventive node asserts/warmstart of Flashsystems occurs after the system detects a certain amount of errors. It would be interesting to see early warnings before the nodestart happens as well as clear indication of where these errors are coming f...
16 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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