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SCSI Unmap support Hitachi Data Systems VSP Series

We are reqeusting the support of the SCSI Unmap command for Hitachi Data Systems VSP Series on Spectrum Virtualize systems.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Plus - Office365 support needed

Office 365 is for 4Q18/1H19 on roadmap, support needed in Q42018customer has Office 365 in place and need local backup, if Protect Plus will not be available in Q418 he will look at CommVault
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Delivered

Different email sender and contact email address for Spec V products

To have different email sender and customer contact email address in the callhome settings.(this is possible in FlashSystem A9000/R - but not in SpecV products)
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

TS4500 media end-of-life monitoring

LTO and 3592 (Jaguar) media have a limited lifetime based on some specific internal measurements like number of loads, number of times completely written/read. The drive posts an alert once one of these internal thresholds have been crossed. At a ...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 6 Delivered

Increase (virtual) DS8000 capacity limits

(virtual) DS8000 capacity is limited to 3652 TiB (approx. 4 PB) with thin provisioning and Small Extents (Thin provisioning and Small Extents is recommended by IBM) 2019 (with) DS8880 we were hit by this limitation. We used some overprovisioning (...
about 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Public REST API For Storage Insights

Client would like Storage Insights to include a Restful API - similar to the one included in Spectrum Control.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 6 Delivered

Notification email "From" address should be configurable from GUI and CSM configuration file

The default email "From" address on notifications is "csmServer@server.domain.tld" or "csmServer@ip.address". With NATed servers, and Email spam prevention, we need to be able to configure this value to meet customer environment requirements.
8 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Keep supporting directly attached FlashSystem storage on IBM i

Reading this page: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7032023 it states: -- quote -- IBM i connected using directly attached Fibre Channel IBM i is not supported as a host operating system when connected using directly attached Fibre Channel t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Realization of FlashCopy restore(reverse FlashCopy) while keeping 3-site HyperSwap relationships

One limitation at this time is that the 3-site HyperSwap relationship must be deleted to perform a reverse FlashCopy, in which case the 3-site HS is reconfigured to cause an initial copy. Reverse FlashCopy are used as one of the normal operationa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Add support for stage/destage metrics in MB/s

Upper cache(Vc) and lower cache(Vcc) read, write, stage, destage and total metrics are currently only displayed in IO/s in Storage Insights. I would like to have the option of seeing this in MB/s as well.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

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