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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Proxmox support for PBHA

    In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem enhanced scheduling

    Customers like to schedule Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem with a daytime granularity. For example, they like to schedule some copies only during working hours or working days.The copies' refresh counting must be based only on the hours/days ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for Hosted Control Plane (HCP)

    For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Relaxing IP quorums placement dependency on the Ethernet ports where the service IP address is assigned.

    Currently, IP quorums for HyperSwap as well as Policy-Based HA configurations need to be connected to the systems' Ethernet port where the service IP address is being assigned. This current design of placing IP quorums prohibits having a secure ne...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Planned for future release

    Increase number of SVC Partnerships

    Increase the maximum number of SVC partnerships (current max is 4)
    over 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    non-destructive later-on encryption activation

    When customers decide not to buy encryption enablement right away with a new FlashSystem but later on because eg they get this as a new requirement or change in corporate policy, they need to destroy all data on the system and re-create arrays to ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Volume and Host move between partitions (split partition)

    We need the possibility to move volumes/LUNs and Hosts between partitions on the same system. The current Partition Design is very static and gives limited flexibility. This feature can be relevant if you want to split your current volume/LUN/host...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Password expire message on GUI

    Customer has a suggestion for improvement so that when a password expires or is about to expire, a corresponding message appears in the GUI when trying to log in, as it currently only appears on the CLI.
    12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Planned for future release

    Allow user access to remote copy relationships to be restricted by ownership groups

    There is the concept of ownership groups in the Spectrum Virtualize code which allows the system administrator to restrict access to users to only those objects that are defined within that ownership group. There is a list of objects to which acce...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Monitoring FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize with Prometheus and Grafana

    An increasing number of our clients is using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor their infrastructure. For Spectrum Virtualize-based storage only the following exporter is available on GitHub: https://github.com/IBM/spectrum-virtualize-exporter Ther...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

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