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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Automatically send audit log records to an external receiver

Currently audit logging is only stored on a cluster. It can be downloaded using 'catauditlog' or 'dumpauditlog'. Like the external syslog receivers, it should be possible to automatically send audit log records to an external receiver like RSA Nvi...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Increase REST API ability above 2000 objects

Current REST API limitation is 2000 objects and above that API may experience a loss of service. Current Spectrum Virtualize/ SVC/ FlashSystems can provide up to 10,000 volumes, and in enterprise environments there will be multiple systems and can...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Integration of Perl rebalance script

SVC should provide a option to re-distribute the capacity when new mdisks are added to pools
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

New V7000 generation

HW refresh of V7000, more ports (16 GB), more cache, more CPU
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

pause / resume functionality during automated code upgrade

integrate a pause / resume functionality into automated code upgrade process, see PMR 15959,662,706
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

DRP configuration limits are not high enough

Currently, the recommendations for DRPs are to use an extent size of 4GiB and a maximum size of 512TiB. The maximum number of DRPs per cluster is 4. With large, multi-petabyte storage systems and also with HyperSwap configurations, these limits ma...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Warn user of active Flashcopy before shutting down I/O group

During a maintenance of a back plane replacement on I/O group 1, all volumes were moved to I/O group 0, caching I/O group was moved to I/O group 0. But FCmap remained on I/O group 1. This brought down source and target volumes with FCmaps. Expecta...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Increase Flashcopy memory limit

Increase the maximum Flashcopy memory limit beyond 2048MiB.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Move GUI suggested task pop-ups to another location

With the availability of code stream 8.2.1.x in the GUI suggested tasks have been introduced which are visible in the main GUI. (clipboard icon). But each time a storage admin logins the GUI these items are also visible as a sliding pop-up at the ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Inline/Realtime De-duplication

SVC can do compression today, but for other types of data deduplication is the better alternative, so SVC sould be anabled to do either function, and maybe reuse the ProtectTier code
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered