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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Enhanced Stretch Cluster / Site Awares for Servers

With SVC 7.2 the streched cluster is now site aware, but this is not reflected int the host connections. What is needed is a site awareness for the servers, so that SVC knows which host connection is in which location. Than SVC can use the ALUA pr...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC Hardware refresh (BFN)

SVC Hardware Refresh: more ports, 16 Gpbs, more Cache, more CPU, direct SAS storage attachment
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support of SVC stretched incremental snapshot by Spectrum Copy Data Management (SCDM)

According to SCDM documentation, ii should be able to create mirrored snapshot when using an SVC with Enhanced Streched Cluster. Unfortunately this is not yet supported/working when Incremental Snapshots are used.
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

MFA support in Storwize management interface

The mangement web interface of the Storwize storage products urgently needs MFA protection. This can be done supporting RADIUS (which will open for Azure MFA integration) or by some IBM designed SMS-based 2FA.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Using SFP+ in the 25Gb HBAs on Spectrum Virtualize

25GbE supports both RDMA protocols and vanilla iSCSI. These don't use SFP+, however, they use SFP28, so you will need to ensure they have a switch that can connect at 25GbE AND has the connection support for SFP28. the 25Gb SFPs provided by IBM do...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC nodes with more than 4 FC ports

Instead of having the two 10 GB Ethernet ports in the SVC (2145-CG8) we need another 4 port FC adapter. As an alternative a new SVC engine should have at least 8 FC ports.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

16GB FC HBA

V7000 and SVC need to be upgraded to 16 Gbps Fibre Channel infrastructure
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Text utilities in SVC / V7000 commandline

For several years, we have missed already the GNU text utilities on the SVC commandline. We have asked again and again but they never came into the SVC/V7000 code stream. We consider these utilities to present no security or OS load issue. On a HM...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC T3 recover fails to meet business need in recovery of replication and flashcopy associations

we lost a cluster and had to perform a T3 recovery. After the recovery it was identified that none of the Flashcopy mappings, replication mappings nor the consistency groups were recovered. Working with support it was expressed that those parts ar...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC/v7000 Online resizing volume with replication, CSM (old TPC-R) can automate this if SVC not able to

Spectrum Virtualize does not support resizing volume with replication. We need to stop replication and resize both production and DR volume and start replication. This can be dynamically resizable if when we extend production volume, SVC/v7000 can...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

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