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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Remote Support Disconnect button

In the Support Assistance screen on FlashSystem our customer would like to have a disconnect button. We understand we can do this with the command line but the customer feels a button to disconnect in the GUI would be more helpful. On a call with ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Error/warning on degraded hosts

Currently when a host is in degraded state, the events are not showing any warning or error. Hence there is a chance that these degraded hosts goes unnoticed. So I suggest to have a warning/error to be reported in the events for any host went into...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Quality of Service with Service Level Objective

The storage already support QoS in terms of IOPS and Throughput and, I know, QoS is applicable to host, domain, pool, volume, and restricted combinations of these entities. This could be implemented in terms of "Group of Volumes", I mean, this gro...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Apply disk fw without specifying all disk Ids with comma separator

When applying disk fw we usually need to specify which drive Ids to be selected, separated with a comma i.e 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13instead it would be nice to only type a range of Ids 0-13
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Capability for "superuser" to set default volume provisioning settings for all new volumes

Capability for "superuser" to set default volume provisioning settings for all new volumes, Disable 'Enable Warning Threshold" by setting it from 80 to 0. This prevents unneeded warning events "Space Efficient Virtual Disk Copy space warning" an...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Support use of Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) in virtual mode in conjunction with the IBM FlashSystem SRA in VMware SRM

MSP wants to provide possiblity of this setup to one of their tenants.
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

IBM Storage plug-in for VMware needs the ability to assign cache io group

When using the IBM Storage plugin for VMware to create RDM or when using the IBM VASA to create vVols we need to ability to assign the cache io group. when we create a new vdisk on storage pool io group1 we want the cache io group1 assign and not ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Pool level mirroring - Protected Pools

The ability to mirror at the pool layer by creating a pool as a mirror pool to an existing pool (protection pool). Any volume that lands into the PRIMARY pool is automatically mirrored to the secondary protection pool. Removing the volume from the...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

add fast format (quick format) in SVC

Please add quick format (or fast format) on spectrum virtualize platforms similar to as it's implemented currently on DS8000.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Digital Encryption Key delete notification upon pool or rank removal

Upon child pool deletion (or rank deletion) CLI response and GUI popup will display a confirmation message that confirms the deletion of the encryption key and constitutes NIST compliant crypto erasure.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration