IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Every Half year require to recommanded the LTS version reports

    Currently, we have multiple FlashSystem storage models, including the FS5K, FS7K, and FS9K series. Recently, IBM has been frequently announcing new versions of the IBM Spectrum Virtualization firmware. While we plan to perform the firmware upgrade...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Check update recommendations against the configuration of the system before notifying the user

    Today the GUI for a FlashSystem/SVC will notify a user of a new code release of Storage Virtualize, but it does not take the specific configuration of the machine into consideration. Before you actually do an upgrade, the tool called CCU checker i...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    PBHA: Update location on a set of hosts at the same time

    use case: the customer wants to be able to change the host location; with 180 hosts, it's not feasible to do it manually; request a possibility to filter hosts based on volume name and then multi-select to adapt; if that's not possible, filter on ...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Have Volume Group next scheduled snapshot be DST aware

    When you have a daily snapshot policy setup for a volume group, the next scheduled snapshot is always 24 hours later. When daylight savings time is involved, this will lead to the snap shot being taken 1 hour later/earlier in the day (according to...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

    SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    PBHA/R: increase total vol capacity

    There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of the replicated volumes (hidden volumes - change volumes - don't count towards this figure). Limit is reached in this 3-sit...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    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 ...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Provide a UUID for each object that is replicated across multiple clusters (e.g. in PBHA / PBR / Flashgrid Configurations)

    Objects such as volume groups or hosts that are being replicated in a PBR/PBHA config exist as individual objects with local IDs on each FlashSystem Cluster, although they actually are considered as unique objects in a cluster-overarching context....
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Provide a secure erase certificate when the "chdrive -task erase" command is ran

    Securely erasing storage media is more important than ever. While IBM does provide whitepapers explaining that the "chdrive -task erase" command does a NIST 800-88 secure erase, there is no documented confirmation after the fact for record keeping...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Allow suppressing host offline alerts at host creation time

    At a recent code level, the FlashSystem began sending email alerts to our on-call any time a host was offline, which happens frequently due to patching or any kind of other maintenance. Based on feedback from an RFE, there was the option to suppre...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

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