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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Improve FlashSystem grid abilities for multiple systems Code Upgrade in one single interface.

Improve the capabilities of the Flashsystem Grid by allowing the code and drive firmware updates of all storage systems to be done through a single management interface, instead of having to open the management interfaces of each Storage that belo...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Improve Flashsystem grid abilities for daily operations (vdisk, host connections, lun masking, etc).

We have customers requesting that our Grid solution allow them to manage, administer and configure the functionalities and components of the Storages through a single management interface, without the need to open a specific management interface f...
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...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) support and compatibility for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) host environment.

Incorporating IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) support and compatibility for Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) host environments would significantly enhance functionality. This enhancement would enable clients curr...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Ability to configure PBHA and PBR between the same two storages.

Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

Policy based replication with high availability must support hosts that has luns in multiple partitions.

In a virtual environment, esx hosts can have luns presented from multiple sources based upon needs. Some luns are single site, and other are dual site. With current version (8.7), one host/region can only have one type of storage (single site or r...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Future consideration

Adding NVMe support for ESXi and Windows HyperV to Policy Based High Availability (PBHA)

Clients want to exploit the host performance advantages of NVMe compared to traditional SCSI over Fibre Channel.
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Coordinated snapshot of a single volume

use case: customer uses PBHA but has multiple db's in one volume group (due to limit on number of VG's); CLI would be sufficient (since it's integrated in a script)
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Increase limits for hosts and host ports per SVC IO-group / per system

Can IBM increase for SVC clusters following v8.6.x limitations ? 1. Fibre Channel hosts per system 2. Fibre Channel hosts per I/O group 3. Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group 4. Number of Host mappable Volumes 5. Number of supported logins per ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration