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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

462 VOTE

Add additional member to an existing V7000 array

The current Storawize V7000 code allows only to swap an array member with another drive. In an environment of increasing storage capacity, it would be desirable to extend an existing array by adding an additional drive (or multiple drives) to it a...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Provide RWX Block Storage for Kubevirt/Openshift Virtualization

Kubevirt (https://kubevirt.io/) hugely benefits from the fact that you can do a live migration (like a vmotion) from VMs in a Kubernetes Cluster.Since VMs are just pods these pods cannot be migrated, but need to be created and deleted. To achieve ...
over 2 years 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

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
253 VOTE

lack of scsi unmap primitive

In the current firmware version there is no scsi unmap primitive.In a vmware virtualization + v7000 thin provisioned volumes, this is a must-to-have feature unless the space, sooner or later, will end without reasons
over 13 years 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

Relaxing IP quorums placement dependency on the Ethernet ports where the service IP address is assigned.

Currently, IP quorums for HyperSwap as well as Policy-Based HA configurations need to be connected to the systems' Ethernet port where the service IP address is being assigned. This current design of placing IP quorums prohibits having a secure ne...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

SVC enhanced stretched cluster and SGC

We need SVC SV2 enhanced stretched cluster with safeguarded copy support.They already have a multi PB infrastructure with SVC ESC.INPS is a strategic account in the Public Sector in Italy. If we not capable to provide this capability they will mov...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered
119 VOTE

SMTP Authentication feature - Storage devices

Need to configure SMTP authentication (user/password) in storage box.
about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

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