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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Make "Hold service state" persist across power cycles.

Currently, at a remote location, there is no way to make a FlashSystem stay offline across power cycles. There are cases where power maintenance activities take place, and it is expected that power may go up & down multiple times. Having a Fla...
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Support of CSI drivers for Rancher

There are various customers and prospective using rancher for their kubernetes containers, so it could be valueable to think and work on the support for those environments
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Allow the refreshfromsnapshot command to run when the target has snapshots and/or a snapshot policy.

The refreshfromsnapshot command currently requires that you delete all snapshots and the snapshot policy of a target volume group before refreshing. This isn't ideal in the case when you are refreshing a volume group since you may need to restore ...
17 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

internal E-Mail client - add "sender address" and make authentication optional

with one of the recent major Versions, Storage Virtualize introduced a completetly new e-mail client, which is a great addition to the previous implementation. In the new client we can have a custom port and support for encryption. Also authentica...
18 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Have Volume Group next scheduled snapshot be DST aware

When you have a daily snapshot policy setup for a volume group, the next scheduled snapshot is always 24 hours later. When daylight savings time is involved, this will lead to the snap shot being taken 1 hour later/earlier in the day (according to...
15 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Policy Based Replication - Secondary Volumes Always Offline

My customer is planning to tech refresh their existing SAN Storage and IBM is one of the 4 vendors participated in the POC. With customer existing DR operations, the storage DR volumes are always at Online status, hence the volumes are always moun...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between the same two storages.

Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

Flashsystem Storage systems to have basic monitoring capability in the GUI itself. Eg: alert or notify on volume capacity used or state based on set threshold on the system itself. Basically, the system itself to have basic/flexible monitoring capability

This is useful when we look at the system we can get all kind of alert/notification including volume used capacity. This will enhance visibility with respect to monitoring and alerting and will add an extra layer of protection from causing outage ...
4 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

checkMK . FlashSystem Plugin update

Some of our customers use Checkmk as their monitoring tool instead of IBM Storage Insights. To ensure compatibility and optimal performance, it would be beneficial to update the current plugin to support the latest IBM Flash System Family.
9 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review