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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Hot spare node

Customers need more redundancy in case of a node failure, and since the SVC hardware is reasonable priced having 1 or 2 more nodes is an option.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Easy access to SVC portstats needed

By architecture the SAN plays an important role for a reliable function of Spectrum Virtualize. Monitoring of SAN counters is crucial for every Administrator to get a clear picture of the health of all communications within. Even we are often faci...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Customer wants to extend the time between node upgrades with the SVC

Customer had multiple servers go down during their last upgrade. They would like the time between node upgrades to be tunable instead of the standard 30 minutes in length. Ideally they feel that if they had more time they could complete the valida...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

storwize remote mirror bitmap space in hyperswap

in a hyperswap environment with heavy overprovisioning there is a lack of bitmap space for remote copy operations inside the hyperswap. we can extent flashcopy bitmap space to 2GB, but remotecopy is shared with other features an limited to 552 MB ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

SNMP V3 support for SVC

Customers are requesting that SNMP be upgraded to V3.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Enable smnp test trap from SVC

Normally, when configuring snmp traps, there is a possibility to send a test trap. Such functionality does not exist in SVC.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Add more characters in MetroMirror name

Name of Mirror Relationship and Consistencygroup allows only 15 digits
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Chane email and LDAP server configuration from IP to hostname

Email and LDAP servers can only be configured by entering their IP address. In case of server lifecycle, connection fails.If hostnames (and aliases) could be configured, this wouldn't be a problem anymore.Applies to all SVC and Storwize products.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SVC ALUA support for VMware

SVC does support the SCSI ALUA standard as well as VMware. VMware has a dedicated Storage Array Type Plug-in (SATP) for using ALUA called VMW_SATP_ALUA SATP. This SATP needs to support SVC just like it supports other IBM storage (e.g. DS3000, DS40...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Enable Audit log to be sent to a syslog server

Enable Audit log to be sent to a syslog server
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered