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Spectrum Virtualize Automatic Quorum Selection isn't intelligent enough

If using automatic quorum selection it would be beneficial for the quorum drives to automatically be assigned across multiple controllers/back-end devices if available. This will help if someone forgets to update quorum drivers when an SVC gets a ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Limit number of login attempts or have lockout feature

Customer has had penetration testing performed against a V7000 Gen 2 and the results which came back from XForce Red team were the following: No User Account Lockout Feature (admin interface) Have spoken with Jamie Pryde (Storwize Developer) and h...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

DS8 Create Volumes GUI from Host View Should Allow Space Efficient Volumes

From the DS8880 GUI, when we go to Create Volumes from a host in the Hosts or Volumes by Host screen, we cannot choose Space Efficient volumes when creating a volume. There is no option for it in the normal volume creation window and the Custom vo...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Support for special characters in passwords

Windows AD supports more characters in passwords than SVC. When LDAP authentication is enabled, and AD passwords containes (~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/), the login will fail. Please allow password complexity to match that of Windows...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

QoS Throttle Settings Should be enabled for Child Pools and to inherit for all volumes in that pool.

1. Currently QoS Settings is for Pools, Hosts and Volume level, for Pools its is per Node, and not per Cluster. 2. QoS settings should exist per child pools the way it was earlier present till code level 8.2.x with IBM Spectrum Virtualize. 3. Also...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

New fuction for IBM SAN Volume Controller: "grep"

SVC command line does not provide the "grep" function included.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Implement full LDAPS

We have a requirement from our clients to implement LDAPS on all instances (hardware and software), which use LDAP authentication.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support for nested LDAP groups

Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Restripe options for balance and policy

Restriping a file or a filesystem can be done for balance or to change location policy or both. However the -b option even when it gets to a relatively balanced state continues to reassign locations and move data when wadfg uses random placement e...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Add Time Locks to Flash Copy Sessions to prevent an overwrite of FC data

CSM will add a property to FC sessions that will prevent users from being able to "reflash" the session in x hours (similar to SGC) This option prevents customers from reflashing over the last "good" flash CSM will add a property to FC sessions to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

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