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Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R 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-...
17 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

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...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

Security mandates for Storage Fusion credentials and MCG integration to S3

ITAU Bank is one of the largest private banks in Brazil. Customer is very advanced in Cloud Adoption, having AWS as their main partner and managing over 9K AWS accounts. While providing agility and independence, their methodology also increases in...
2 months ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Allow longer volume names - use shorter mapping names - in storage protect snapshot

Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controller production source vol...
11 months ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Under review

Once a code upgrade begins, we should block Customers DS GUI logins with a "banner" stating code upgrade is in "progress".

Clients, especially new ones who are not familiar with DS8000 tend to get upset when they are attempting to access the DS GUI during a microcode upgrade and find that they cannot. This will alleviate a great deal of frustration and uncertainly for...
11 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Add GUI option to view, select and modify mirror write priority of Volumes

Currently it is not possible to specify the mirror write priority parameter in the GUI during Volume Creation. The system allows two options for mirrored volumes: latency (which is the default) and redundancy. In some customer environments it is c...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Password and Certificate expiration warning

Providing a warning starting at 30 days out and decrementing by week until the last week, then daily, would alert Users in advance of expiration.
about 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Under review

Ability to clear HBA port counters from port statistics without reboot

Part of ongoing monitoring, and also as troubleshooting aid after a repair is completed, it would be great to have ability to clear FC HBA port statistics. Note: Counters referred to are the CRC errors, loss of sync, etc which can only be cleared ...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Relaxing IP quorums placement dependency on the Ethernet ports where the service IP address 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 being assigned. This current design of placing IP quorums prohibits from having a secure ...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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