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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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V7000 Spare Capacity distributed among disks in array rather than dedicated hot spare.

I think that the V7000 would greatly benefit from having distributed spare capacity rather than dedicated hot spares. The XIV benefits greatly from this and being that it's IBM's product, I expect it would be easy to get out there from a legal per...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC SCSI id assignement

Current way of SVC SCSI id handling in case of multiple I/O groups could cause problem with Clustered Hosts (like VMware) The problem is that an SVC with multiple IO Groups could present a LUN with different SCSI id to the members of an ESX cluste...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize GUI doesn't retain a sufficient amount of performance data

The on-box performance monitor for Spectrum Virtualize only maintains 5 minutes worth of performance data. Since performance tests or issues can last longer than 5 minutes, this limits the ability to do instant analysis. Additionally, there can be...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increase number of Host mappings

More than 20.000 host mappings per cluster are required.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SFP Tx/Rx values at SpecV/Storwize UI

For each Port in an SpecV or Backend Storage System like FS or Storwize it schould be visible which Tx/Rx Values the SFP has. At the moment these values are only visible for the IBM support and it takes a while to determine this as a source for an...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Add Cluster Definition to SVC for grouping hosts and managing SCSI ID

Ability to create a 'cluster' of hosts in SVC and map a lun to the cluster. SVC would then manage SCSI IDs for all the hosts defined for the 'cluster'.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

EasyTier Behavior is not transparent enough

EasyTier behavior and optimal configurations are not explained very well and you cannot see EasyTier in action live from the GUI or CLI. This makes it difficult to understand
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize lacks node awareness

There is no intelligence around node restarts. If the other node in an IOgrp is restarting to recover for aforementioned error the Storwize will not wait for the restart to complete and carelessly restarts the secondary node before the first is fi...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Automatic Quorum Selection isn't intelligent enough

If using automatic quorum selection it would be beneficial for the quorum drives to automatically be assigned across multiple controllers/back-end devices if available. This will help if someone forgets to update quorum drivers when an SVC gets a ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Limit number of login attempts or have lockout feature

Customer has had penetration testing performed against a V7000 Gen 2 and the results which came back from XForce Red team were the following: No User Account Lockout Feature (admin interface) Have spoken with Jamie Pryde (Storwize Developer) and h...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered