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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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In a Stretched Cluster, add ability to prioritize a site in case of a tiebreak/lost comm. between sites

Currently if we get a tiebreak situation where communication is lost between the sites in a stretched cluster, the nodes that can reserve the quorum disks first will continue to operate and the other half of the cluster will stop.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Multi level tiering on V7000

More than two level tiering. I.e the ability to combine storage pool of SSD, SAS and NL-SAS and have data migrate between the the way easytier works with data starting in the middle tier and migrating to NL-SAS if it isn't used and upwards to SSD ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Accepting STARTTLS 250 Command without "Hyphen"

In an Flashsystem 7200 - 2076 with Firmware 8.5.0.5 we can not send TLS1.2 Emails because the STARTTLS 250 command required a "STATTLS-250" and downs't work with "STATTLS 250" so it doesn*t work without an Hyphen.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

RX/TX values for FC sfp

In order to know if there is problem with the sfp RX/TX values - we must submit snap to the support , it will be much easy for customer to review the SAN env if there was command/GUI option to show it.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

manually set license threshold to prevent CMMVC6372W events in additional products

Some thresholds in Spectrum Virtualize and Storwize products are system-wide settings that can not be changed. These may influence additional products and lead to malfunctions or misinterpretations in these products. If you could adjust these valu...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

FS9150/9200 Storage units do not identify I/O ports when plugged into a switch, no symbolic name or RNID data

Currently the only way to identify an I/O port on a FS9150 or FS9200 is by WWPN only, and there are multiple logins possible per port. This makes the zoning of these a much more arduous task than it has to be. An IBM CHPID for example provides bot...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Tool to view EasyTier Metrics in SVC UI

Problem description: Difficult to determine EasyTier consumption of LUNs, MDISKSCurrent workaround: Run STAT tool on dpaheat files downloaded from Storwize; dump to folder and view local HTML doc. This process is very clunky and difficult to map a...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Be able to replace defaul SSL certificate on the SVC / V7000

Government Security agencies are demanding that they be able to replace the SSL certificate within the SVC / V7000 with one generated by their departments.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Vdisk_protection_enabled: Expand feature

The feature provided against user community rarely does unmap the wrong volume through enabling of "vdisk_protection_enabled=yes" parameter. We wish development teams can take this parameter and expand further to allow partial unmap of resources f...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Coordinated / uncoordinated 3-Site remote copy

SVC 3-Site mirroring solution with Metro and Global Mirror (independent of Vdisk mirroring) - meaning a MM target can be a GM Source
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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