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    136 VOTE

    Enhancement to DS8K's HMC power supply redundancy

    We request more power paths for HMC of DS8K. My customer had the incident that two IO enclosures (#3 and #4) fail in DS8886 and both HMCs were cut off from the power path, making the HMCs unusable. As a result, logging and remote support could not...
    over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered
    120 VOTE

    Early warning when an ISP server certificate cert256.arm expires and a smooth method for renewing the certificate.

    The server certificate cert256.arm (public key), expires after 10 years without warning. After that, access to the ISP server is no longer possible from one second to the next. The server must be stopped hard. A warning in the Actlog, e.g. three m...
    about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 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 ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 18 Delivered
    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...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 30 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...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

    Storage Insights to report power supply issues in FlashSystem

    Currently Storage Insights health status for a FlashSystem doesn't raise any alerts for power supply failure or power input issue. Everything shows green until the customer is notified via call-home or SNMP alerts set at the system level. The cust...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

    Backup and Data Services support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation workloads on Fusion HCI using Storage Fusion HCI

    Many customers currently running Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) which will be discontinued. They advised by Red Hat to migrate to Red Hat OpenShift Containers. However since certain workloads may not yet to be OpenShift Container ready, ...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 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 20 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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 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 2 Delivered

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