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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    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...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    partition-specific CLI prompt

    starting with 9.1.1 we can connect to individual partitions. when doing so thru ssh the CLI prompt (PS1) still shows the full controller's name. it would be very handy to have the partition's name displayed here. especially if you're operating on ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Allow choosing the snapshot name for a volume group

    Hello Development Team, One of our main FlashSystem platform customers in Brazil, the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3), believes that, for a more customized experience, it would be important to allow choosing the snapshot name when a snapshot policy ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    Allowing a host to be a member of multiple host_clusters

    Our strategic FlashSystem customers has requested an enhancement to improve flexibility in their environment. Today, a host can only be associated with a single host_cluster, which limits certain operational scenarios. The 1:1 restriction creates ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    Reset of "lsportstats -node port" error counters on IBM SVC.

    We would be very pleased and grateful if you could implement the following requirement.For troubleshooting and error analysis purposes, it would be very helpful if the error counters could be reset to 0 to see if various counters (CRCs, link reset...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    SafeGuarded copy enforced retention

    Currently SGC can be removed just from restricted security administrator, protected by 2-Person integrity (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/flashsystem-9x00/9.1.0?topic=security-two-person-integrity). To further enhance SGC protection, the proposal is ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Snapshot and VG Snapshot Transparency to Expert Admins

    Currently the VG snapshots and vDisk snapshots are intransparent on the UI and cmd for expert administrators. Snapshot Disk are hidden and can only made visible with certain commands on the cmd but not on the UI. Which Snapshot rely on which other...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Continue CIM support

    Applications like ServiceNow rely on CIM to retrieve data during discovery. Without CIM support (since version 8.6.1 and newer), new integrations (e.g. REST based) are required but not available. IBM already has/had the knowledge to provide a good...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Ability to rename a snapshot (local or HA)

    Use case: currently snapshots are created with automatically generated names that are very random, with a string of numbers that are meaningless to the customer. Cu will sometimes take individual snapshots via the GUI, as a backup before a major a...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    PBHA/R limit: how much in use?

    There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. It is not easy for a user to see how much can be added before that limit is reached . Can we provide this in GUI (or CLI). This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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