IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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one to many replication

System: v7000 Actor: Client needing new feature v7000 backend storage provides landing for several large production, development, test databases and data stores. This data is critical for analysis and reporting and represents real production impac...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

IBM V7000 EasyTier

Want to transfer EasyTier learn cycle from production to DR without using storage to storage replication
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Basic Flashcopy Scheduler on Storwize

Our customers are requesting an enhancement to the V5000 to include a basic scheduler of flashcopy on GUI. ALMOST STORAGE COMPETITOR offer this feature in one pane GUI without cost. It is very convenient for customers who always use snapshot to ke...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Output enhancement for the error CMMVC6024E.

Customer tried to create a mkrcrelationship in Metro Mirror modality for two volumes of 3,09 TB and received the following error:CMMVC6024E The auxiliary volume entered is invalid..The explanation for this code CMMVC6024E in the Web is very poor a...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Request for SMTP authentification Storwize V7000 / SVC

Request for SMTP authentification Storwize V7000 / SVC.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SMTP - authentications parameters

We need to sent Call Home messages (emails) after authentication (it is outside organization). Of course there is SSL/TLS support necessary also.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Avoid "degraded host" when using LPM

We've got several IBM i hosts using NPIV and LPM. In host's tab we see always the host as degraded because the second WWPN port is always offline until we use LPM. It would be great have an option to set "LPM host" and set which ports are for LPM ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Account Security Features added to Storwize V7000 - Session Lock

Our IBM GBS team have been required on multiple Public Sector projects, specifically CMS HIGLAS, that are required to meet all the organization security requirement, (DoD, etc.) with the storage and SAN hardware. Being unable to comply with a secu...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

v7000 VAAI unmap

VMware has added VAAI primitives to their features.One that is often mentioned on RFP is theVAAI unmap (Space Reclamation)
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Expanding Volumes with flash copy mappings

Expand source volume without removing flash copy mappings.When Expanding a source volume with flash copy mappings you need to remove the flash copy mapping relationship with the source volume which deletes the data within the flashcopy.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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