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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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QoS Throttle Settings Should be enabled for Child Pools and to inherit for all volumes in that pool.

1. Currently QoS Settings is for Pools, Hosts and Volume level, for Pools its is per Node, and not per Cluster. 2. QoS settings should exist per child pools the way it was earlier present till code level 8.2.x with IBM Spectrum Virtualize. 3. Also...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Support for special characters in passwords

Windows AD supports more characters in passwords than SVC. When LDAP authentication is enabled, and AD passwords containes (~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/), the login will fail. Please allow password complexity to match that of Windows...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Display/edit Storage pool property

Currently the new SVC GUI doesn't offer any way to display or edit the pool properties. We would like to have the ability to change some of the pools attributes via the new GUI. The following attributes should be included:- Easy Tier - Capacity wa...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

New fuction for IBM SAN Volume Controller: "grep"

SVC command line does not provide the "grep" function included.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Implement full LDAPS

We have a requirement from our clients to implement LDAPS on all instances (hardware and software), which use LDAP authentication.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support for nested LDAP groups

Enable LDAP support for nested LDAP groups
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SCSI unmap DELL Powerstore in classic pools

Using SVC with different strorage controllers is essential. DELL Powerstore is able to use data reduction. There for it is essential to fully communicate the SCSI unmap from fornt to back end.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC Enhanced Stretched Cluster - Hosts Site Awareness

SVC Enhanced Stretched Cluster provides site awareness to SVC Nodes and Storage Controllers, allowing an optimized IO routing and policing between the SVC Nodes and the back-end Storage arrays, however it lacks Site associations for Host objects. ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Show Raidtype in V7000 GUI

would be very handy if we could see the Raid type in the V7000 GUI (to see quickly the underlying RAID level)
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increase Number of change volumes

Increase number of supported change volumes with SVC low bandwidth mirroring from currently 256 supported volumes up to 4096 volumes.SVC stretched cluster in combination with SVC's nearly synchronous Global Mirror: Low Bandwidth mirroring to furth...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered