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My ideas: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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RFE 95: Dedup on svc and v7000

Most of storage vendors at this time are able to dedup data on their storage array level, when we will be able to see the dedup running on the svc and v7000, ds8000...etc?
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Allow GREP to work on the CLI

Allow the CLI to work with external tools like GREP without resorting to running it inside python or expect.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Allow Admins to run lshardware, lsservicestatus, and lsportstats commands

At Citi they valut the superuser password and can only check it out of vault with a change record or trouble ticket. Having the ability to have storage admins run the above commands will simplify reporting and troubleshooting. They need to be able...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Azure support on Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud

Costco is moving their infrastructure into Azure public cloud. Current they have SVC clusters on-premise in prod. They are requesting Azure support on Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

IBM V.3700 & IBM V.7000 upgrade issue

The IBM V.3700 internal SSD disk drive for its own IBM V:7000 software/firmware was filled up and prevented the system to upgrade to a new release. This problem can also occur on IBM V.7000. Commands to rectify was: * cleardumps -prefix /home/admi...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Search field in all storwize / svc pop ups and pages, especially in vdisk mappings

provide a search and filter field (basic or with options) in each pop up and view field of the SVC / Storwize UI
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Manual resume of automated Spectrum Virtualize upgrade

Manual resume of automated Spectrum Virtualize upgrades. The automated upgrade procedure includes a 30 minute wait at the half-way point. This may not be enough time to verify systems have fully recovered.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add compression savings information to V7000 / SVC GUI

With the addition of 'Uncompressed Volume Size' to the RACE SDK version 1.88.7 and onwards, this information will be available through RACE API integrated into SVC/V7000 in environments using Real-time Compression capability. Since this informatio...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize does not handle space exhaustion in update directory well

Code Upgrades halts due to no space available to update directory. Nodes do not show a clear message for low space and way to check what is stored in the update directory.. Option to reclaim space used by old firmware codes and log files - SVC fir...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Vifrtualize does not warn you of poor intranode port configuration

Port assignment can allow you to have a single internode connection. This will result in only talking to one fabric. If you lose a node it will keep running but depending on the traffic you can drop the whole cluster. Very busy and can time out an...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered