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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

Bulk rename of volumes via GUI

Hello, In previous releases, we could select multiple volumes, right-click, and choose Rename. A popup would then display all selected volumes, allowing us to rename them one by one. Once all changes were made, we simply clicked Save, and all sele...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

change system layer from replication to storage when using automatic configuration for virtualization

FS7600 comes with system layer value of replication. the automatic configuration for vitualization fails when system layer is set to replication and needs to be changed to storage layer. It would be helpful if the system automatically changed the ...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Offering a sorted volume group

When creating new volumes, a volume group can be selected. The items in the drop-down menu are not sorted by name (I believe they are sorted by volume group ID).This isn't a major issue if there are only one or two VGs, but it becomes problematic ...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Reduce host-visible path interruptions during NPIV failback operations

IBM calling out that they observed failover and failback behavior is expected for NPIV environments, and host-side path transition messages during failback are normal. No underlying storage or multipathing issue has been identified. During failove...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Support for persistent SCSI3 reservations for Multiple Path

Support for persistent SCSI3 reservations for configurations that have multiple paths (via single IQN) to each FlashSystems node. Presently SCSI PR is allowed only when there is 1 host path per FlashSystem node for iSCSI host attach.
4 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Create at least a warning event for error messages relating the creation of SafeGuarded Copies

My customers have a FS5300 and 55TB of SGC-protected space. We considered doing snapshots every half an hour using Copy Services Manager. We found out, that the bitmap is too small to handle this. We could see some errors in CSM, but not an event ...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Allow manual input of Storage Insights Tenant ID in system setup wizard (FS9600 9.1.2.1)

Current implementation of FS9600 system setup wizard (9.1.2.1) requires internet access for the browser, apparently only for retrieving the customer's Storage Insight Tenant ID to be used in the subsequent underlying "chcloudcallhome -sitenantid x...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Identify SVC/IBM Storage Virtualize volume when RTD is detected on backend FlashSystem

When Real-time Threat Detection/RTD detects suspicious activity on an IBM FlashSystem that is used as backend storage behind IBM SAN Volume Controller/IBM Storage Virtualize, the current event information identifies the affected backend FlashSyste...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 9 Under review

SVC GUI SCU calculator

SVC SCU calculation is physical capacity-based with a disk type conversion factor value (Calculation Terms: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms/?id=L-PGBC-EPMNYG&lc=en). SVC GUI show the compressed space mounted; this is higher fro...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Support multiple concurrent Policy-Based High Availability (PB-HA) 2-site-ha relationships on a single IBM Storage Virtualize system or IO Group.

### How should it work?1. Hub-and-Spoke PB-HA Topology: Allow a central storage system (System A) to simultaneously maintain independent active-active '2-site-ha' PB-HA relationships with different target systems (e.g., System B <-> System A...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review