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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
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Ability to rename a partition.

Once a Partition exists, it is not possible to change the name, while the partition name is based on hardware, applications, hosts (or combination).This can change over time and then it is more than desirable to be able to change this. Also renami...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Ability to modify or add a fcport of a host that is in a partition.

Assuming PBHA and\or PBR: It may happen that a FC HBA of a host is replaced or that a HBA is redeployed. Or a host has already been created with 1 FC port. In these situations it is not possible to adjust this.
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

FS5200 support GKLM 5.0

Customer have implement latest GKLM version V5.X to encrypt FS5200.When trying to connect Disk equipement to GKLM , FS5200 complaint about not supported ekm server.Raising ticket TS019138372 , we got feedback this page stating the supported list h...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Volume and Host move between Partitions on Flashsystem

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...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Policy Based Replication - Secondary Volumes Always Offline

My customer is planning to tech refresh their existing SAN Storage and IBM is one of the 4 vendors participated in the POC. With customer existing DR operations, the storage DR volumes are always at Online status, hence the volumes are always moun...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Allow "modify volume capacity" of a volume in a volume group with PBR applied

For the moment, it is not possible to modify (in our case extend) a volume which is in a volume group where a replication policy is applied. This has a huge impact if we simply want to extend a volume (to increase a datastore capaciy for example)....
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Policy Based Replication Allow rename of volumes into a volume group with replication policy assigned

We sometime need to rename a volume because it makes things cleared when you want to add other volumes or other vlume groups. For the moment, as soon as a policy is applied, the rename of a volume inside a volume group is not possible. Could you p...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Provide a UUID for each object that is replicated across multiple clusters (e.g. in PBHA / PBR / Flashgrid Configurations)

Objects such as volume groups or hosts that are being replicated in a PBR/PBHA config exist as individual objects with local IDs on each FlashSystem Cluster, although they actually are considered as unique objects in a cluster-overarching context....
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Add Last Access Time to GUI Table

While managing volumes, I often want to see how long it's been since a volume has last gotten an update. This can only be done from the CLI (lsvdisk | grep "last_access_time"); but it would be nice to be able to see it in the GUI.
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Volume hot expansion support for PBHA solution

The client has two FS5200 and implemented PBHA, but is questioning that it is not possible to perform hot volume expansion, he requested documentation showing that it is on the roadmap.
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

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