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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Add vdisk home tier option for provisioning policies.

Depending on the type of mdisk tiers in an easy tier enabled pool, newly created vdisks may have their extents placed on a non-preferred tier according to customer preference. For example, in a pool with tier0_flash and tier_nearline, new vdisk ca...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Safeguarded Copy function for latest FlashSystem 5000 products.

With the introduction of Safeguarded Copy Function, it was decided that a FlashSystem 5100 or greater is required to support this new functionality. Since many Flashsystem were sold to Small and Medium businesses or institutions, we are wondering ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Increase number of SVC Partnerships

Increase the maximum number of SVC partnerships (current max is 4)
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Three site Async Replication - Spectrum Virtualize

The customer requirement consists of an application that needs to be in a 3-way async replication configuration between their 3 data centers which are outside of Sync distances.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Default behavior of formatting a vdisk should be selectable

Default behavior when creating or expanding a vdisk is to format the new capacity. Please allow the customer to customize at the cluster level whether the default is to format or not format.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SVC Easy Tier - Heat Map Transfer Request

Given that SVC is used for DR, and with 7.3.x Easy Tier allows 3 tiers, just like in the DS8K series, it is critical for customers to be able to have the Heat Map Transfer for the SVC to ensure efficient transition to a DR center during a disaster...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SCSI Unmap support for Huawei OceanStor Dorado V5/6

Our German customer is using a lot of Huawei Arrays with SVC and need support for UNMAP command for external Huawei OceanStor Dorado storage.It is a very big and valuable customer
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Add Expand capability for fully allocated hyperswap volumes

Recently an option was added (8.4?) to FlashSystem software (Storwize) allowing easy expansion of in-use Hyperswap volumes through the GUI. An unfortunate restriction of this for us was that it cannot be used with fully allocated hyperswap volumes...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

EasyTier Tier priority

Depending on the configuration or status of the pool, EasyTier might place initial data on a lower. This can result in poor performance as new data is added to a system.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Respect the TIER of the source volume when adding a volume copy to avoid performance impact

When a client adds a volume copy to a vdisk, for example when converting a volume from Basic to HyperSwap (but other situations would also apply), the SVC SW does not respect the TIER of the source volume when allocating the extents of the volume ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

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