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PINNED FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage
FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.
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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Support for HPE VM Essentials with FlashSystem (including PBR/HA)

    MSP considering HPE VM Essentials as VMware replacement, but need FlashSystem/SVC support
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    HTTPS support for Internal Proxy Server (not only HTTP).

    Because customers do not support HTTP protocol any more.
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Add Deleting Volumes to background processes when removing from DRP pool

    When we've deleted volumes from the GUI they had removed but when we went onto the cli it showed these as deleting, this would be useful to show in the background tasks as then we could have seen these were still being removed off the storage as t...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    introduce "lsvolume" as a successor for "lsvdisk" to better meet today's architectural designs

    A few years ago, additional features such as e.g. Hyperswap have been introduced and required a better differentiation of types of volumes (a.k.a. vdisks). Hence new commands such as "mkvolume" or "lsvolumehostmap", "addvolumecopy" etc. had been i...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    add capability to filter for "empty" or "non-empty" fields in ls-command outputs

    The "-filtervalue" parameter allows to filter for particular strings or substrings when using "listing" commands such as lsvdisk, lshost etc. Currently, the "-filtervalue" parameter syntax does not offer the capability to filter for objects that h...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    task-based TPI

    The way Two Person Integrity (TPI) is currently implemented collides with our security policies and is not considered a true "4 eyes principal". When SecAdmin1 approves a time slot of X minutes for SecAdmin2 to do anything with superuser powers th...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    rmsyslogserver should be sent to remote syslog server

    Setting up a remote syslog server to catch notifications from StorV is an important component in any security framework. Likewise it is important to monitor if syslog notifications get unconfigured. As of today, removing the last/only syslog serve...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Enable/ Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path

    Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path Technologie to encrypt FC Traffic between Server and Storage. Plus Traffic between SVC and Flashsystem and Flashsystem to Flashsystem. Why is this needed? It is needed for compliance under DORA and o...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage

    FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    HashiCorp Vault Key Management support for FlashSystem / TS7700

    TS7700 using FlashSystem Storage supports KMIP for external Key Management. As Clients look to deploy HashiCorp Vault as their enterprise wide key management support is needed to incorporate IBM Storage Solutions.
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

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