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V7000 Host groups and aliases

The V7000 doesn't have host groups or wwpn aliases. Currently you can create a host and assign wwpns to it, then map luns to the host. First off it would be nice to provide a human readable alias for each wwpn, so it's easy to now which is which. ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

V7000 - Individual Accountability (SYS4985)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Need GUI wizard to perform reverse FlashCopy

Need ability in GUI to restore a FlashCopy snapshot quickly and easily. As it is today it is not even obvious you can do this in the GUI but even if you know it can be done the flow doesn't make sense and if select the default type of FC mapping, ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Host group object (Cluster / Farm)

Host group object (Cluster / Farm) and Host port description
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Host group object (Cluster / Farm)

Host group object (Cluster / Farm) and Host port description
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Can a mechanism be built to better add / manage users from the V7000 into Microsoft AD?

Requesting a mechanism be built to better add / manage users from the V7000 into Microsoft AD?
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Can a mechanism or a configuration table be built to show how large of an MDisk % is going to be large enough to populate all

Can a mechanism or a configuration table be built to show how large of an MDisk % is going to be large enough to populate all the MDisks (IE 2% is not large enough to be spread across 3 MDisks in the pool it would be spread to only 2. This would b...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Scale Erasure Code Edition 需要支持roce组网

很多项目客户要求支持roce, 已和IBM沟通答复如下: roce现在有很多限制,需要我们自己验证过,然后提RPQ,测试通过才可以使用 请问当前roce的限制主要在哪些方面,我们需要测是哪些场景呢才算通过呢,谢谢
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to configure the Time span of Recent Tasks

At the TSM Ve Web GUI, add the ability to configure the Time span of "Recent Tasks"
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Exlusion of Filesystem on Spectrum protect client application with specific to filesystem type like exclude.fs.jfs

Spectrum Protect client is the product. Currently Spectrum protect client software manages backup and restore of files/directories of large Enterprise servers. Spectrum Protect (SP) client has feature to exclude only NAS filesystem with the comman...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration