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My ideas: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Immutable snapshot

Secure immutable snapshot support for Spectrum Virtualize code. similar to Secure Copy on DS8K. That allows multiple read-only snapshots, can not be deleted, or modified. can only be used by another group user than the original user.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

DISA STIG - SSH Login Attempts Before Resetting the Interface

IBM is working with the United States Air Force as a Sponsor to have the the FS7200 and FS5030 be added to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Approved Products List. The approved products list ensures that all findings for a Security Te...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Notification for offline volumes after the stop of FC mapping

When a FlashCopy mapping is stopped the target volumes (in case it is not 100% synced) goes offline. If a Spectrum Control server is monitoring the system, it sees offline target volumes in the same way as any other offline volumes regardless of t...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC to FS9200 NDVM (Non-Disruptive Volume Move)

At GTS, we have a strategy to deploy FS9200s in their respective islands. We are not deploying FS9200s with front-ended SVCs. The SVC instances exist in tens of thousands in the field. Most of the times the migration requires outage for a server d...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increase IP Remote Copy Replication speed for single volumes

As discussed with Albert Verhoef (IBM Pre-Sales Storage) I'll submit the following issue where we urgently needs a fix for: Our application can only use ONE volume. This volume is can be between 20TB to 347 TB in size. Test set on site is built as...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Include DNS

Include DNS for manage the NTP and eMail-Servers.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

HyperSwap: IP connection on IP quorum disk makes redundant so to avoid Quorum disk offline

System: Storwize V5030Actor: HyperSwap -----------------------------Understood HyperSwap technology is based on chassis level redundancy. In the meantime IP quorum is based on IP connection between storage nodes and tie-braker IP quorum disk. Howe...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Battery reconditioning required. Give the customer an option of an automated process

Since SVC, V7000, V5000, and The FS900 all share some of the same code I'll Use the V5000 as the example. My customer asked why are they bothered with having to take action when they receive a notification that "Battery reconditioning is required"...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize GUI doesn't retain a sufficient amount of performance data

The on-box performance monitor for Spectrum Virtualize only maintains 5 minutes worth of performance data. Since performance tests or issues can last longer than 5 minutes, this limits the ability to do instant analysis. Additionally, there can be...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SFP Tx/Rx values at SpecV/Storwize UI

For each Port in an SpecV or Backend Storage System like FS or Storwize it schould be visible which Tx/Rx Values the SFP has. At the moment these values are only visible for the IBM support and it takes a while to determine this as a source for an...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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