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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

3-site support for low-bandwidth links to DR system with automatic mode switching

Since 8.7.1 we offer a 3-site HA+DR solution, but it requires a high bandwidth link to the DR system. Most customers are asking for a 3 site solution with a low-bandwidth link to the third site. Standard PB Replication offers an automatic mode swi...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Integrate PB-HA volumes with Veeam Backup (qualification)

Many customers use Veeam Backup and want to purchase a disk system for this application, which can be found on the "Veeam Alliance Partner integrations and qualifications" page https://www.veeam.com/solutions/alliance-partner/integrations-qualific...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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.
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Configuration of NTP must be done using NTP-SHA2 algorithm using symmetric key

RBI has brought a notice to banks in India for below: Observation details & Manner of Compliance: Observation as per the report 3.9.15 - 'Stratum' Network Time Protocol (NTP) solution used by the bank for NTP synchronization configured with NT...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Have Volume Group next scheduled snapshot be DST aware

When you have a daily snapshot policy setup for a volume group, the next scheduled snapshot is always 24 hours later. When daylight savings time is involved, this will lead to the snap shot being taken 1 hour later/earlier in the day (according to...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Support for certificates with MS Entra SSO

The customer has requested SSO integration with MS Entra to use certificates (instead of a client secret) as a credential.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

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