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Search results: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Snapshot and volume management improvements

A recent sale to a non-IBM customer has shown just how poor our basic management capabilities are within the GUI.We were compared to their 5 year old Nimble array and we did not stand up well. Snapshot scheduling; Simple snapshots that are created...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Re-enable host IO-group selection while adding a new host via the GUI for 8.4.0.x and up

Re-enable selection of IO-group during host creation in SVC code 8.4.x and up
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Select background colour in GUI

When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

V7000 Performance Monitoring for EACH MDisk and Volume

V7000 Performance Monitoring should have selectable details and panels for EACH MDisk and Volume, in order to let users see different behaviour of each environment/host type connected to the SAN
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Mimimum volume datarate for HyperSwap primay site switching consideration or Primary site enforcement for volume pairs

The RFE proposes to create a client input parameter acting as a threshold (expressed in MB) instructing the HyperSwap site optimization module to ignore write traffic below the threshold. Alternatively the RFE proposes to create a CLI command allo...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize GUI resizable fields

Since redesign of the GUI in 7.6 (could also be in 7.5 but we did skip that release) a number of fields cannot be resized anymore. This is very frustrating for our storage administrators as they have to pick items on random and see if this is the ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

SVC management GUI does not select the config node by default

When we open the SVC management GUI and go to the screen named “Download Support Package” (where we can view or create support logs), the GUI has pre-selected a view that shows a list of available files. Usually the SVC node that is selected for v...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Display/edit Storage pool property

Currently the new SVC GUI doesn't offer any way to display or edit the pool properties. We would like to have the ability to change some of the pools attributes via the new GUI. The following attributes should be included:- Easy Tier - Capacity wa...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Automatic Quorum Selection isn't intelligent enough

If using automatic quorum selection it would be beneficial for the quorum drives to automatically be assigned across multiple controllers/back-end devices if available. This will help if someone forgets to update quorum drivers when an SVC gets a ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

SVC Enhanced Stretched Cluster - Hosts Site Awareness

SVC Enhanced Stretched Cluster provides site awareness to SVC Nodes and Storage Controllers, allowing an optimized IO routing and policing between the SVC Nodes and the back-end Storage arrays, however it lacks Site associations for Host objects. ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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