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My ideas: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Mouse click events on Flash based systems GUI needs some modifications.

Hi IBM Team, Minor tweaks required for user friendly access of the portal where mouse click events on GUI page needs some modification. Please find them in detail below. Details: Go to any of Flash IBM array for - https://0.0.0.0/gui#monitor-syste...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Is a defect

Allow swapping a DRAID member drive without triggering a RAID rebuild.

We would like to be able to do a drive swap of a DRAID member without triggering a RAID rebuild. The same current functionality of TRAID charraymember.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

HyperSwap shows degraded host

Hello. In Sberbank Russia we tested HyperSwap on Storwize V7000 one year ago.Our SAN infrastructure not supported cross link connectivity between HOST1 - STORAGE2 and HOST2 and STORAGE1 (picture 1). Now, in HOSTS menu hosts in degraded status (pic...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

SVC planned maintenance for vdisk mirror

My customer is planning to use SVC stretched cluster as a high available solution for the two data centers that are located close to each other (less than 1 km distance). They are asking for a function to "suspend" the vdisk mirror on one side wit...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Integration of change volumes into the stretched cluster concept

When using vdisk mirror between two data centers in a stretched cluster configuration SVC also needs to ensure that the change volumes are mirrored in the same way as the primary volumes to avoid loss of the GM mirror.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Provision of vdisk protection time for unmap and delete

Currently there is a parameter "vdisk_protection_time" is available to configure on SVC to avoid any unforeseen deletions by an error. We need to have a different parameter for unmap of volume and a similar parameter for protecting against deletio...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Automatic pool size increment by simple resize of underlying mdisks (e.g. Storwize LUNs)

Increasing the size of a pool consisting of mdisks from Storewize needs the following steps according to an discussion with our external partner:- create new LUNs on Storwize and map to SVC- integrate into pool on SVC- migrate data to bigger LUNs ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

EasyTier pool - import of image mode with tier level designation

when migrating client environments in a newly deployed, EasyTier enabled environments, space restraints make an import of the existing client data impossible. a typical space proportion would be 10% flash, 30% enterprise and 60% nearline. When imp...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Notification of events related to the temperature of SVC cluster nodes in the Storage Management (GUI).

We need to view on the Storage Management or a event log, the events related with the temperature threshold of the SVC nodes.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC Snaps - customer related info

SVC Snaps contains data such as IP , host names .customer request to remove the sensitive data from snaps
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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