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My ideas: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Tx/Rx values at SVC GUI

Could you please develop to be Tx/Rx values visible at SVC GUI? It would be useful at a port investigation issue. There is a problem with swith SFP, FC cable or SFP of an SVC node. With this info we could raise a ticket much more perfectly. Thank ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

9848-AF8 / 8.3.1.1 limits migration speed ( number of threads )

After upgrading FS9x00 - 9848-AF8 to 8.3.1.1, the number of threads when migrating out of internal mdiskgrp has been limited to 4. That combination can be reached by 4x1, 2x2, 1x4 - the total number of threads cannot exceed 4 This is a limitation ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

IBM's SRA lacks functionality HP does offer

Volume mapping lost after failover and failback using VMWare SRM
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Need ability to rebalance volume extents when adding more MDisks to an existing storage pool

When adding MDisks to an existing storage pool for SWV7K or SVC we do not automatically rebalance the extents volumes' are using from the pool thus we get hotspots and imbalance in utilization. We have had request to add this to SVC since 2003 and...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 15 Delivered

Augmenting storage controller code/capability to erase disk data satisfying regulatory requirements

With increasingly strict compliance by Reserve Bank Of India [similar central bank in other countries], banks need to mandate that any storage media leaving their premise does not carry any data. Therefore clients want to ensure data is erased com...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Storewize syslog server for Audit log

We would like to have the option of the Audit log to be sent to a syslog server.The following are some events that are of interest:Create user, delete user, change privilege user, change password, successful login, failed login known user, failed ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Replication data communication encryption in transit using TLS

Encryption of data at flight: Currently our spectrum Virtualize software is able to do a encryption of data at rest. This capability means that data is encrypted as it is written to disks by the IBM Spectrum Virtualize Controllers, and not by disk...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

V7000 and SVC replication via onboard IP links

We'd like to request the ability for the Storwize V7000 and SVC to be able to replicate via Global Mirror using the onboard IP ports on the V7000/SVC. This will eliminate the need to use 3rd devices for FCIP translation and simplify the current an...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 13 Delivered

Please add formal support for "Storage Groups" on SVC/V7K

There is currently no formal functionality to create a 'storage group' (or container) on SVC/V7K platforms as of version 6.4. Users are forced to either create many multiple individual host-to-lun masks OR create 'arbitrary' storage groups by labe...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Dynamic volume expansion for HyperSwap volumes

We urgently need the support for dynamic volume expansion at HyperSwap volumes. Currently one HyperSwap volume copy needs to be removed to enable the volume expansion and afterwards to be re-created &re-synchronized again to do this. This resu...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

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