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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

Allow manual input of Storage Insights Tenant ID in system setup wizard (FS9600 9.1.2.1)

Current implementation of FS9600 system setup wizard (9.1.2.1) requires internet access for the browser, apparently only for retrieving the customer's Storage Insight Tenant ID to be used in the subsequent underlying "chcloudcallhome -sitenantid x...
10 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Support multiple concurrent Policy-Based High Availability (PB-HA) 2-site-ha relationships on a single IBM Storage Virtualize system or IO Group.

### How should it work?1. Hub-and-Spoke PB-HA Topology: Allow a central storage system (System A) to simultaneously maintain independent active-active '2-site-ha' PB-HA relationships with different target systems (e.g., System B <-> System A...
7 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Identify SVC/IBM Storage Virtualize volume when RTD is detected on backend FlashSystem

When Real-time Threat Detection/RTD detects suspicious activity on an IBM FlashSystem that is used as backend storage behind IBM SAN Volume Controller/IBM Storage Virtualize, the current event information identifies the affected backend FlashSyste...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

SVC GUI SCU calculator

SVC SCU calculation is physical capacity-based with a disk type conversion factor value (Calculation Terms: https://www.ibm.com/support/customer/csol/terms/?id=L-PGBC-EPMNYG&lc=en). SVC GUI show the compressed space mounted; this is higher fro...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Need CSI driver support for use of mirrored volumes in SVC standard stretched cluster

To create a volume with high availability (HA) (HyperSwap or stretched topology) on IBM Storage VirtualizeĀ® storage systems, put a colon (:) between the two pools within the pool value. For example: pool: demo-pool1:demo-pool2 Important The two po...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Ablity to refresh a thinclone from an unrelated snapshot

The existing ability to refresh a thinclone volumegroup from a snapshot helps with automating repeated tasks and minimising admin in the server and OS infrastructure to discover volumes. In this operation the thinclone volumegroup is constraint - ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Add the ability for a single host to have volumes from partition and local volumes

Currently a single host definition have the limitation of having volumes from a partition or local, ww need to support a combination of those two, that will enable migration and various other scenarios especially in virtual environments. For examp...
4 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

CSI driver with RWX permission

we have a large VMware environment that uses an IBM FS7300 storage system as the primary storage for virtual machines. We have recently started using Kubernetes together with Persistent Volumes. However, the native CSI driver only supports RWO (Re...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Functionality already exists

Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Requiring Elevated Access When Deleting Source Volume with SGC and TPI

Current state. Superuser is disabled. Two security admins are set. TPI is enabled. Safeguarded Copy (SGC) is active per volume group (VG). Each sec admin and each admin can delete any source volume in the SGC VG. The volume goes to "deleting state...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review