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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Automatic Safegurded volumes to s3 or COS

With safeguarded copy, we have a fantastic solution to provide an immutable copy of a volume. Rapid recovery is effective if the volume resides on the storage array, however, with ransoware taking 200+ days to detect, it is less likely this volume...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Future consideration

Volume hot expansion support for PBHA solution

The client has two FS5200 and implemented PBHA, but is questioning that it is not possible to perform hot volume expansion, he requested documentation showing that it is on the roadmap.
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

volume formatting visibility

it would be great to display or at least inform the user that volumes are being formatted at creation or extension in the gui maybe allow to disable the format option in the gui
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

Per host PWWN data collection for IBM storage insights from IBM Storage Vritualise

The customer has a cluster of 5 hosts which uses a collection of 10 LUNS to get the production environment. When we see storage insights, the data collected is from the volumes in the storage and populated on the console. There's no data collected...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

implement an "auto" setting for volume mirror sync rate

currently the volume mirror sync rate can only be set to a fixed value. while it's great to have this real-time setting, it would be even more helpful to also have an "auto" setting for it to have the system decide at which rate it can sync/format...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Disable Host Degraded for Direct-Attached Hosts

This client has multiple distribution centers with small FS5x00s that are directly attached to a few ESX servers. The site is too small to justify SAN switches, and direct-attach is supported with NPIV enabled on 8.6+ code. In our configuration, e...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Functionality already exists

Increase consistency group 512 volume maximum to at least 2048

Current IBMi client has 498 volumes running on FS9500. Existing DS8K systems each have over 1,500 volume, preventing them from using more FlashSystems. Minimum # of volumes would need to be 2,048 but more would account for future growth.
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

Build a possibility to upgrade existing FCM4 arays created by <8.6.2 to the new functionality with ransomware detection

Many customer will install on LTS versions for stability and fast coming PTFs. We will now deliver FCM4 modules with better ransomware detection possibilities. But it will not possible to use this with arrays formatted <8.6.2 , what is a CD ver...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Background Processes not visible in SVC-GUI (Code Level 8.7.0.1)

Hello Team. A few weeks ago we upgraded one of our SVC's from code level 8.6.0.3 to 8.7.0.1. Since we are on 8.7.0.1 (also happened with code level 8.6.0.3) we are wondering why no background processes (such like vdisk mirroring, volume formatting...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

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