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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...

IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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=...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Tuning off Alert definition : remove 2017

Hi, From SVC 8.6.1.0 and 8.7.0.0 an new Alerte is noticed in Events Log : "2017 - One or more configured hosts are offline" So users receive by mail each time a 'host' become OFFLINE. We are using 'Flash Copy' every day so we are starting ang stop...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Delivered

Replication policy - Timer for Recovery Copy Sync

We currently see a countdown for the # of TiB remaining, would it be possible to add a time showing the approximate amount of time unles the recovery copy is in sync?
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Allow CSI driver for Flashsystem to define PortSet

The client is using FS9500 to automatically provision Block Storage to BareMetal Openshift servers through the IBM CSI Driver.As a shared infrastructure the client has deployed separated private network for each OCP cluster with Portsets.Today the...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

ibm.storage_virtualize.ibm_svcinfo_command module to have filtervalue options available for use

The ability to have the filtervalue option available would enable searching through lsvdisk to be a much more efficient when it comes to utilising the Ansible Collection. It would reduce the dependency on having to handle the large output from an ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Capacity-less child pools to use for QoS

Allows the use of QoS settings for pools of volumes to be different than other pools of volumes. This could be used for prod vs non-prod, or broken up by different business units for a customer.
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

CSI Block support for modern Operating Systems and Orchestration Platforms

The IBM Block Storage CSI Driver is missing Support for new Operating Systems versions (RHEL9, RHCOS 4.14/4.15, Ubuntu 22/23) and also for new versions of Orchestration Platforms (RedHat Openshift 4.14/4.15, Kubernetes 1.28/1.29). The Today Suppor...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Please provide OS support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for IBM Block Storage CSI driver

IBM Block Storage CSI driver already provided for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but this version is end of life april 2025. We and our customers plan to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in the next time.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Delivered

Add a setting to the "Update System" page to only suggest LTS releases

Every time I log into my FlashSystem UI it tells me there is an update recommended, suggesting the latest non-LTS release. In our production environment, we only want to be notified when an LTS update is available. A setting to "only show updates ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered