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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

IP Quorum for PBHA Rescan Automatic

IBM L3 told me this: When the application (IP Quorum) starts, it uses a configuration file that includes the management IPs of both systems but only the service IPs for the system where the app was created. If the app cannot contact the management...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Storwize host creation should allow delimited WWPNs for input

Storwize should allow for the use of delimited wwpns (eg c0:00:...., c0-00-....) in host creation dialogues and mkhost commands. The network view allows for viewing the wwpns in several formats with or without delimiters, but input requires the us...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Upgrades should create svcconfig backups and copy them to each node

Currently, we run the following prior to upgrades, incase there is an issue: svcconfig backupCFG_ENCL=`lsnodecanister -delim : -nohdr -filtervalue config_node=yes | cut -d: -f14`for ENCL in `lsnodecanister -nohdr -delim : -filtervalue config_node=...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Show the real used capacity on vdisk in GUI

GUI shows the two values “real capacity” and “used capacity” in addition to the capacity with which a disk was created.For a thin-provisioned vdisk this two values are useless, if the capacity is shrinking (unmap from esx). For example an actual e...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

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...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

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...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Volume and Host move between partitions (split partition)

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...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

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)....
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

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