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    More Verbose Update screen for Firmware Updates

    During the Flash System Update the status jumps from 2% to 50% with no updates in between or afterwards, a more verbose visuals would be great.
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Allow copy suspend of PBHA partitions

    In a PBHA environment the partnership between Flashsystems can be stopped suspending the copy and then when it is partnership is re-started the copy resumes (no need to a full resync). It should be possible to stop the copy at partition level to a...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    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 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Reset of "lsportstats -node port" error counters on IBM SVC.

    We would be very pleased and grateful if you could implement the following requirement.For troubleshooting and error analysis purposes, it would be very helpful if the error counters could be reset to 0 to see if various counters (CRCs, link reset...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    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...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Storage Sentinel support for the Scanning Engine to run on IBM Power hardware.

    For environments running SAP HANA on Power Linux, which is supported by Sentinel, there may not be x86_64 hardware in the environment for a Scanning Engine to be installed onto. The Scanning Engine needs to be installed where it can access the sto...
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

    Add a host to multiple host clusters

    It would be nice it I could add a host to multiple different host clusters. You can currently map a volume to multiple host clusters and it works. The reason for this request is to reduce the risk of human errors. Lets say that we have 3 different...
    20 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    Proxmox support for PBHA

    In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Proxmox plugin for FlashSystem

    Plugin to improve current interop limitations with Proxmox (clustered host access, maintain VM snapshot ability, thin provisioning)
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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

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