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SV PBR support for CSM

To push or force customers to move from Standard GM o GMCV to the new PBR where the CSM is exstesively implemented, it is mandatory that CSM will support the PBR as weel soon.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

V7000 and SVC replication via onboard IP links

We'd like to request the ability for the Storwize V7000 and SVC to be able to replicate via Global Mirror using the onboard IP ports on the V7000/SVC. This will eliminate the need to use 3rd devices for FCIP translation and simplify the current an...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 13 Delivered

Augmenting storage controller code/capability to erase disk data satisfying regulatory requirements

With increasingly strict compliance by Reserve Bank Of India [similar central bank in other countries], banks need to mandate that any storage media leaving their premise does not carry any data. Therefore clients want to ensure data is erased com...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud (SV4PC) - AWS GP3 support

client (BP) have moved AWS GP2 to GP3 since GP3 was introduced DEC 2020. GP3 are 20% lower costs per GB month than GP2 and provide 3000 IOPS v's 100 at GP2. This makes GP3 now the default choice for our AWS client. Even with SV4PC data reduction ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Please add formal support for "Storage Groups" on SVC/V7K

There is currently no formal functionality to create a 'storage group' (or container) on SVC/V7K platforms as of version 6.4. Users are forced to either create many multiple individual host-to-lun masks OR create 'arbitrary' storage groups by labe...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

CSM - Change dual access control options

We would like to have the option to enable dual access control for different operations and different user groups.
over 5 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 4 Delivered

Storewize syslog server for Audit log

We would like to have the option of the Audit log to be sent to a syslog server.The following are some events that are of interest:Create user, delete user, change privilege user, change password, successful login, failed login known user, failed ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

IBM's SRA lacks functionality HP does offer

Volume mapping lost after failover and failback using VMWare SRM
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Allow CSI driver for Flashsystem to define PortSet

The client is using FS9500 to automatically provision Block Storage to BareMetal Openshift servers through the IBM CSI Driver.As a shared infrastructure the client has deployed separated private network for each OCP cluster with Portsets.Today the...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Dynamic volume expansion for HyperSwap volumes

We urgently need the support for dynamic volume expansion at HyperSwap volumes. Currently one HyperSwap volume copy needs to be removed to enable the volume expansion and afterwards to be re-created &re-synchronized again to do this. This resu...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered