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    Reintroduce NVMe/FC Connectivity Support in IBM Block Storage CSI Driver

    The IBM Block Storage CSI driver previously supported NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) connectivity, however, this support was discontinued in newer versions of the driver. NVMe/FC is a critical protocol for clients running latency-sensitive work...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Under review

    Adding a new volume to a parent volume group containing a snapshot that a thin-clone volume group was created from should automatically add the volume to the thin-clone VG when that VG is refreshed from a new snapshot taken from the parent VG.

    Since the thin-clone VG is tied to the snapshot of the parent, if you add LUNs to the parent and create a new snapshot and then refresh the thin-clone from the new snapshot, it seems logical that you would want the thin-clone VG to also have the n...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    export/import for host configurations

    The existing feature to export and import a system's configuration does not include hosts. A feature to export all hosts (including their WWPNs) and import them on another system/cluster would be very helpful.
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Bulk change volumes

    Before 9.1.0.1 you could hold shift to mark multiple hosts with one click and then change many parameters for all of them at the same time. For example, setting an IOPS or bandwidth limit, adding them to volume groups and so on. This feature is no...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Add a host to multiple host clusters

    It would be nice it I could add a host to multiple different host clusters. You can currently map a volume to multiple host clusters and it works. The reason for this request is to reduce the risk of human errors. Lets say that we have 3 different...
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Please bring back show hosts by host ports in the hosts menu

    Because its a pain having to view host properties then selecting the port definitions tab every time
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Merge Partitions with different topology

    Request on customer feedback is the ability to perform a merge between two partitions running not in the same topology (or using identical settings). The inability to perform a merge of partitions with different topology (HA vs non-HA), impacting ...
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Every Half year require to recommanded the LTS version reports

    Currently, we have multiple FlashSystem storage models, including the FS5K, FS7K, and FS9K series. Recently, IBM has been frequently announcing new versions of the IBM Spectrum Virtualization firmware. While we plan to perform the firmware upgrade...
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    MFA features require to add Google authentication

    Currently, IBM Spectrum Protect has Google authentication enabled, but IBM Flash Storage and SVC do not support Google authentication or MFA features. Including this functionality in upcoming versions would be highly beneficial, as it would allow ...
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Allow Rescheduling of Snapshot Policy on Volume Group

    Sometimes we need to change when a snapshot policy is scheduled for a given volume group. Currently you have to unassing the old policy, and reassign it giving a new time.
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

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