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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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If there is a broken or offline canister, make it easier for the offline canister to rejoin the good canister after the offline canister is replaced

Customer had a canister that was replaced. The new canister would not boot. Support had to work with the admin to run the chbootdrive command to update the serial number to the new canister to get things fully working. The request is for an enhanc...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Support for up to 8 IO Group Systems

Seeking support for up to 8 SVC IO groups, 16 nodes in total.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Bug in Storwize 8.1.3.5 - Object Type 'emailuser' expects 0 objects

When attempting to prepare the 'svc.config.recover.sh' script, the task fails as the system finds 2 objects set of type 'emailuser' (e.g. 1. the default IBM call home email address and 2. the local customer email address). The extract below shows ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize: Enhance MCStore Connectivity/Capability

SVC's supports Cloud Object storage pools for FlashCopy Targets in 7.8. The current method for accessing cloud object storage is via the management port on the config node. This creates a problem with scalability. The request is to enhance this, p...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Logging and audit of svcinfo commands

My customer tested the remote support for their new FS9200 that they are deploying in their datacenter and they wanted to make sure that the commands executed by remote support when accessing the FS9200 via remotesupport proxy were being logged an...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & CLI encryption command

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & in CLI encryption command - which will help customer's cybersecurity team - requested by customer. Check this thread in slack # specv-sme-se = https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com/...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Improved reporting to support daily operations

Customers have requested a better way to report and manage space within a pool. The example given was:It is very difficult to work out how much space a snapshot or a series of snapshots are consuming in a pool with IBM storage, other vendors make ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Save failed commands ran on cluster to be viewed in audit logs with output in Blue Diamond

* SME Martin Dzhagarov suggested this , so creating this RFE * - Where were supposed to look for failed commands.This is Blue Diamond and I don't think that it show up in the audit log- Failed commands do not show up in the Audit log. Can the cust...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Consistent VDisk copy protection during ESC Incremental Resynch and/or Volume Migration

During volume migration and volume copy incremental synchronization in stretch cluster configurations, until the second copy is consistent again, the loss of the primary site will command restoring data from tape backup into the second site capaci...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize VSS provider has to support Hyperswap configurations

There are currently limitations in the VSS HW provider used with IBM Flashsystem 9100 in Hyperswap configuration. This prevents Spectrum Protect Snapshot from supporting these configurations.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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