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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Ability to manually exclude specific cipher suites for SSH

We've been chatting to support desk about the support for disabling/excluding specific cipher suites for SSH. As geographical perspectives (and thus necessities) could potentially differ from one another, we'd like to opt for a feature request, fo...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

For DRP show used_capacity_before_reduction in the GUI

When using DRP, Real and used capacity is not shown in the GUI. Used capacity is actuyally available from command line as "used_capacity_before_reduction". I suggest that this value is presented in the GUI for DRP volumes.
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Increase limits for hosts and host ports per SVC IO-group / per system

Can IBM increase for SVC clusters following v8.6.x limitations ? 1. Fibre Channel hosts per system 2. Fibre Channel hosts per I/O group 3. Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group 4. Number of Host mappable Volumes 5. Number of supported logins per ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Policy Based Replication Recovery Volume Names

We appreciate the simplicity of Policy Based Replication setup; however, we are in need of these two features to be added: 1. Allow custom naming of the recovery volumes. This is needed because we do not use the same system names between each site...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

We need "UNIX/LINUX clear/Windows cls" command to clear the screen. The "cls" command should be an alias of the "clear" command.

Need to clear the screen to focus on what is shown. It would improve debugging and when sharing a screen via WebEx.
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Include "date" command to report system-date on IBM Storage Virtualize products . . .

During automation, lot of times system date needs to be retrieved from storage system. Currently one has to run undocumented "svqueryclock" command. Would be better if we can provide/support "date" command (or some one word variance of it) to offi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Add volume and host tagging and notes capability

It would be helpful to have the ability to apply filter-able tags and/or notes to volumes and hosts. VMware has this capability and it is useful for automation as well as organization. Tags can be used by automation to find a collection of objects...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Minimize Upgrade time for Flash System canisters

Today upgrade of Flash System controller take around 20 minutes per canister.This means less performance , less ports that are in use , and put the customer in risk , in case the second canister have problem during the upgrade of the first canister.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Request to allow configuration commands to run during code/ifix upgrades.

During the code upgrade process of flash systems, the configuration commands are not available from the time that the update process starts to the time that the new code level is committed. These restrictions stopping us to use self-service API to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration