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253 VOTE

lack of scsi unmap primitive

In the current firmware version there is no scsi unmap primitive.In a vmware virtualization + v7000 thin provisioned volumes, this is a must-to-have feature unless the space, sooner or later, will end without reasons
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 20 Delivered

Ransomware detection on block storage

“How IBM FlashSystem can recognize the possible cyber ransomware attack?”

 The ransomware do data encryption. Most of our Clients uses data that are eligible for compression and the average ratio is around 2:1. The idea is to measure compression ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

LTO-9 "mass media optimisation"

After upgrading to LTO-9, media must be optimised in the tape library. This process is automatically carried out when a new LTO-9 data cartridge will be mounted for the first time in a LTO-9 drive. It can take 18minutes (or more?) x number of cart...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 6 Delivered

Allow different size volumes at target in a Flashcopy session or Make Migration session to same DS8K.

This will allow move disks to bigger sizes on same DS8K. I was using CSM to disk migration but when I tried to run on same DS8K I got an error. So, I have to run the FCESTABL on zOS, which worked perfectly with different sizes at target. The benef...
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Monitoring of host latency during Global Mirror for Spectrum Virtualize

Customers use GM when there is a requirement to maintain an aggressive RPO. However during GM there could be instances when the quality of link between DC & DR can deteriorate due to packet losses or high latency which could be a temporary phe...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered
103 VOTE

Increase maximal synchronization rate for VDisk-Mirror relationships

Can you please increase the maximal possible synchronization rate at VDisk-Mirror relationships to a higher value than the currently max. possible value of 64MBps per VDisk ?
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Snapshot and volume management improvements

A recent sale to a non-IBM customer has shown just how poor our basic management capabilities are within the GUI.We were compared to their 5 year old Nimble array and we did not stand up well. Snapshot scheduling; Simple snapshots that are created...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

TS4500 implement for Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) / Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, users must utilize multifactor authentication in many systems today to prevent potential misuse and compromise of a system. For this and other customers security and related resiliency i...
over 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Keep supporting directly attached FlashSystem storage on IBM i

Reading this page: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7032023 it states: -- quote -- IBM i connected using directly attached Fibre Channel IBM i is not supported as a host operating system when connected using directly attached Fibre Channel t...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered
107 VOTE

Multi-Tenant management support inside Spectrum Virtualize (SVC)

SVC supports Delegation of Control (Role Based computing) of Functions, but not of Data/Objects. A user in a certain role, can work with all Objects, also those created by other users. This RFE request the introduction of additional functionality ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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