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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Service user role should be able to execute dmp (recommended action)

The V7000 service user role should be able to execute dmp (dynamic maintenance procedure) or recommended action in the GUI. Other user roles like "admin" or "secure admin" has to many other rights. Client's request a stricter definition of the use...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Raise number of supported concurrent open SSH sessions

According SVC restrictions of the current SVC code v6.4 the maximum number of concurrent open SSH sessions is 10. Can you raise this number to minimum the double value ?
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Lockheed Martin - SVC GM

Currently you can navigate in the GUI to Copy Services à FlashCopy Mappings and see the live status and % complete for all FlashCopies in your system. There is nothing like this for Global Mirror Mappings. You can look under Running Tasks but that...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

V7K - Failure of command to unmap or delete a LUN identified with I/O (sys4736)

The V7K should be able to prohibit a LUN from being unmapped or deleted should there be any I/O. Although, there still could be a need to remove a LUN from a clustered server group (removing a server from the cluster). We would like the option to ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Allow SpecV systems to expand volumes without formatting in OpenStack

Allow volume expansion to use nofmtdisk option as well, or change the default of expandvdisk to the option used in the mkvdisk.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

pre-format setting of storwize volumes

Add the possibility to specify pre-format option for storwize volumes (vdisks). In storwize 7.6.x the default is to pre-format every volume which is not needed in all the cases.We are mostly working with IBM i systems attached to storwize systems ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Add description fields to GUI and CLI to store information about host and LUN

It would be nice to have description fields in the GUI (and CLI as well) where you can place some kind of logical information about a host and LUN. It maybe different at customer sites, but as all Servicelines within SSO have their specialism, we ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

vDisk Protection in a DTA Snapshot environment

With vdisk_protection_time and vdisk_protection_enabled, two parameters are provided in SVC and Storwize to prevent accidental deletion of a disc. Unfortunately, this function is unusable if additional products dynamically create and delete vDisk....
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

pause upgrade process after half of the nodes are done to allow verification that paths are back online

During the upgrade process, we had a host that did not recover paths as quickly as expected. We like the idea of the automated upgrade process but would like to see a pause after have of the nodes are upgrade. The customer would then confirm that ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Storwize: Intra-Cluster Metro Mirror increase limit of 25 MB/s

Firmware 7.3.0.8 Customer has large databases 16TB and need Flashcopies (snaps with copyrate 0) for functional tests. For performance tests he will create a clone from one of this snaps. But with our FlashCopy architecture this is not possible bec...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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