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My ideas: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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non-destructive later-on encryption activation

When customers decide not to buy encryption enablement right away with a new FlashSystem but later on because eg they get this as a new requirement or change in corporate policy, they need to destroy all data on the system and re-create arrays to ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Support for certificates with MS Entra SSO

The customer has requested SSO integration with MS Entra to use certificates (instead of a client secret) as a credential.
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Spectrum Virtualize "IO pause" on node leave and join is entirely too long

When a node leaves or joins a Spectrum Virtualize cluster (SVC, V7K, FS9100, etc), the cluster imposes an "IO pause" on the order of 10 or more seconds. This is unacceptably long, especially in a flash environment.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

FlashSystem intelligent QoS

Although FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize have the capability of do throttling of IOPS and MBps to a specific LUN or Pool, I have more than one customer that would like to have the capability of specify SLO, for example, implement QoS with differ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Add an option to sendcloudcallhome to allow users to test that they will be able to get to new support IPs, before the old ones are removed.

There are occasional changes to the support ips ( for example: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6991259 ). It would be beneficial to be able to test connections to the new IPs before the old ones are removed. An option could be added to the ...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Realization of FlashCopy restore(reverse FlashCopy) while keeping 3-site HyperSwap relationships

One limitation at this time is that the 3-site HyperSwap relationship must be deleted to perform a reverse FlashCopy, in which case the 3-site HS is reconfigured to cause an initial copy. Reverse FlashCopy are used as one of the normal operationa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Separation of SCSI UNMAP and other offload workloads from offload throttle

SCSI UNMAP rate can oversubscribe backend storage, and rate can be reduced with application of offload throttle on cluster. But this bring other challenges where this offload throttle also throttles XCOPY and other related offload workloads - whic...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Monitoring FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize with Prometheus and Grafana

An increasing number of our clients is using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor their infrastructure. For Spectrum Virtualize-based storage only the following exporter is available on GitHub: https://github.com/IBM/spectrum-virtualize-exporter Ther...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Capability to throttle vdisk by defining a goal response time (possibility to delay an I/O to a value)

There are an increasing number of clients asking for the functionality of specifying the goal response time of a volume (vdisk), so that it doesn't go faster than this goal and does not use resources that could be used by other volumes.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Replication policy - Timer for Recovery Copy Sync

We currently see a countdown for the # of TiB remaining, would it be possible to add a time showing the approximate amount of time unles the recovery copy is in sync?
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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