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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Spectrum Virtulize limits

Today there are limitations of Remote Copy consistency groups per system - 256.This limitation is not longer suitable for enterprise customers.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

EasyTier to stop hot writing when performance problem detected

Easy Tier should be able to detect when a performance problem is caused by an incorrectly labeled mdisk and back off hot writing.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Display iogrp memory settings in gui and make cmmvc messages helpful to the user

The set of errors preventing the user from defining the objects are relatively unhelpful in wording. For example: CMMVC5970E The Remote Copy relationship was not created because there is not enough memory. The feedback from the gui/cli does not of...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

misleading flashcopy status of change-volume in hyperswap cluster

In support we receive questions/concerns of customers on a regular base asking/complaining about the "stopped" status of change-volumes. This status is WAD after loss of synchronization btween the sites and resync of the hyperswap volumes. On the ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SVC automatic space reclamation

We need an automatic space reclamation for frontend LUNs which are presented by SVC to VMware .
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

SVC Encryption

SVC should encrypt the data written to the backend and is possible also data mirrored between SVCs
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Increase number of Vdisks

Eg. 32.000 Volumes/Vdisks per SVC cluster
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Mimimum volume datarate for HyperSwap primay site switching consideration or Primary site enforcement for volume pairs

The RFE proposes to create a client input parameter acting as a threshold (expressed in MB) instructing the HyperSwap site optimization module to ignore write traffic below the threshold. Alternatively the RFE proposes to create a CLI command allo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize STAT tool in GUI

Incorporate the STAT tool into the GUI in SVC / Storwize Family (Spectrum Virtualize).
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Expand Volume size of a Global Mirror primary

I'd like to be able to expand the volume size of a Global Mirror primary without having to: 1) Delete the relationship.2) Increase the size of all the volumes. All volumes in a relationship must have the exact same size (virtual capacity).3) Re-cr...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered