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My ideas: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Coordinated / uncoordinated 3-Site remote copy

SVC 3-Site mirroring solution with Metro and Global Mirror (independent of Vdisk mirroring) - meaning a MM target can be a GM Source
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Vdisk_protection_enabled: Expand feature

The feature provided against user community rarely does unmap the wrong volume through enabling of "vdisk_protection_enabled=yes" parameter. We wish development teams can take this parameter and expand further to allow partial unmap of resources f...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

SVC - Throttle control at host level

I have a customer asking for the ability to throttle IO rate and/or MB rate at the host level vs the current method today of the Volume level.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Accepting STARTTLS 250 Command without "Hyphen"

In an Flashsystem 7200 - 2076 with Firmware 8.5.0.5 we can not send TLS1.2 Emails because the STARTTLS 250 command required a "STATTLS-250" and downs't work with "STATTLS 250" so it doesn*t work without an Hyphen.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Modular Spectrum Virtualize code upgrades

Any Spectrum Virtualize upgrade, even from say a.b.c to a.b.d is a full load of the entire Spectrum Virtualize code on each node, which is a potentially disruptive event
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Include DNS server input information in SVC GUI during e-Mail server setup

When input in the SVC GUI's setup view the e-Mail server related information there is currently no possibility to enter DNS server related details. Can this be included in the input screen in future releases ?
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

V7000 Security Vulnerabilities related to DISA STIG findings

SPAWAR engineering component for the Dept of the Navy is considering the IBM V7000 for several Navy programs storage requirements. All systems/devices that are to be considered for procurement need to go through Security Technical Implementation G...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

More detailed user rights on SVCs

We need more detailed user rights for the users on the SVCs and V7000 Systems. We will begin to use the FCM (Tivoli Flash Copy Manager) for many different applications/systems. But now must the FCM have a SVC user with admin (that means, complete ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Non disruptive volume migration between Storwize devices

I would like to migrate hosts between members of the Storwize family without needing an outage on each host. The current methods for this are either through image mode migration or replication. Both of these methods require an outage on the host t...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Windows 2022 Support - Spectrum Protect Client, VE (TVE), SVC

Need support for Windows 2022 as it relates to: 1. Spectrum Protect Client2. VE (TVE)3. SVC
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered