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My ideas: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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V7000 Spare Capacity distributed among disks in array rather than dedicated hot spare.

I think that the V7000 would greatly benefit from having distributed spare capacity rather than dedicated hot spares. The XIV benefits greatly from this and being that it's IBM's product, I expect it would be easy to get out there from a legal per...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Increase number of Host mappings

More than 20.000 host mappings per cluster are required.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SCSI unmap DELL Powerstore in classic pools

Using SVC with different strorage controllers is essential. DELL Powerstore is able to use data reduction. There for it is essential to fully communicate the SCSI unmap from fornt to back end.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

QoS Throttle Settings Should be enabled for Child Pools and to inherit for all volumes in that pool.

1. Currently QoS Settings is for Pools, Hosts and Volume level, for Pools its is per Node, and not per Cluster. 2. QoS settings should exist per child pools the way it was earlier present till code level 8.2.x with IBM Spectrum Virtualize. 3. Also...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Add Cluster Definition to SVC for grouping hosts and managing SCSI ID

Ability to create a 'cluster' of hosts in SVC and map a lun to the cluster. SVC would then manage SCSI IDs for all the hosts defined for the 'cluster'.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

EasyTier Behavior is not transparent enough

EasyTier behavior and optimal configurations are not explained very well and you cannot see EasyTier in action live from the GUI or CLI. This makes it difficult to understand
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize lacks node awareness

There is no intelligence around node restarts. If the other node in an IOgrp is restarting to recover for aforementioned error the Storwize will not wait for the restart to complete and carelessly restarts the secondary node before the first is fi...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Automatic Quorum Selection isn't intelligent enough

If using automatic quorum selection it would be beneficial for the quorum drives to automatically be assigned across multiple controllers/back-end devices if available. This will help if someone forgets to update quorum drivers when an SVC gets a ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Limit number of login attempts or have lockout feature

Customer has had penetration testing performed against a V7000 Gen 2 and the results which came back from XForce Red team were the following: No User Account Lockout Feature (admin interface) Have spoken with Jamie Pryde (Storwize Developer) and h...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support for special characters in passwords

Windows AD supports more characters in passwords than SVC. When LDAP authentication is enabled, and AD passwords containes (~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/), the login will fail. Please allow password complexity to match that of Windows...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered