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My ideas: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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FS9200 to Fully support Remote Code Load via Proxy

Request Remote Code Load capability on FS9200 via Proxy to include download of files as well as activation of files. Customer does not wish to stage the files for IBM RCL team. This functionality was originally requested by customer as part of SCO...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

RFE 74: Storwize support for DNS names rather than IP addresses

There are a number of network services e.g NTP SNMP, SMTP and LDAP which have to be configured with IP addresses.This is becoming an administrative overhead in large organisations where DNS is the source of the truth for all the other network serv...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

V7k Should Not Keep Bothering Users to Add Systems to Storage Insights if the Systems are Already Managed in Storage Insights

Our V7000 devices which we already manage in Storage Insights keep popping up Suggested Tasks and mentioning on the Support Package page that we should look into starting managing the devices in Storage Insights. We have seen this at 7.8 and 8.3 c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Increase SVC Mirror and Sync Speed beyond 64 MB/Sec.

Increase SVC Mirror and Sync Speed beyond 64 MB / Sec., currently the maximum speed is set by a percentage option for each vDisk (from 91 to 100 means 64 MB/Sec.) but modern flash based backend storage systeme can do it much faster for a single vD...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Enhancement to SVC CLI: new wwpn list command

I'm looking for a cli command to list all wwpns (both online and offline) that are configured to host objects.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC Unsuccessful logins

SVC sould be providing a statistic about unsuccessfull logins with the IP address and date. For example: Unsuccessful login attempt from 10.10.10.9 at 17:30 25th august 2013. Or 100x unsuccessful logging during [period of time] from 10.10.10.7
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Allow IBM support to modify the RAID Parity Scrub rate. This would be used in potential data loss situations.

I want to have the option to speed up the "RAID Parity Scrub rate, built into and available in the code. I envision it as something only IBM could enable, but also not opposed to having it be available, and perhaps just not advertised to the gener...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Easy Tier enhancements

Easy Tier 3 (any 2 tiers and multi-tier – 3 (or more) different drive types in a pool) as well as automatic rebalancing of data in a pool, and server tier. Also the EasyTier Stat Tool need to be enhanced to reflext the real (decimal) volume Ids as...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increased FlashCopy bitmap space for SVC in 2022

EPIC 15665 is slated to expand FlashCopy Bitmap space in 2H22, but currently SVC is not slated for support. This customer is a long time IBM customer that is need of increased bitmap space for SVC.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SFP RX values on FC ports on SVC

one "response" during the 65148,662,706was that RX values were low in SFP's on the SVC node. and yet no errors seen anywhere in SAN switch, eventlog, or TPC for errors on SVC port. indeed was advised this should be corrected before any firmware up...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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