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Possibility to create volume clusters as host clusters

Quite often I have to attach the same set of volumes to the same set of hosts. I would be handy to have volume clusters as host clusters.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

SpVirt GUI: option to set the refresh period of webpages

gui : option to set the refresh period of webpages, as it is automatic now and rather short.
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Is a defect

Spectrum Protect - password strength

Spectrum Protect has no capability to enforce strong passwords for "local" IDs. Only the length of the password can be specified. The new TLS certificates do give some better security. But I would like to see SP enforce strong passwords, eg 14 ran...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Average DS8K power consumption command

My customer is interested in monitoring the power consumption of the DS8K. Apparently there's no command or any other easy way to obtain it, so they would like to be able to get the average power consumption with a command in a similar way as they...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize: SCSI ID consistency and uniqueness

#1 Host-clusters ensure SCSI ID consistency for volumes presented to clustered servers; when volumes are migrated to non-clustered storage systems the consistency needs to be maintained. This consistency is critical for VMware stability #2 When mu...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

"Totals" option for adding up how Volumes and Utilization per Application

When certain reports are selected, the ability to SUM certain fields that are selected into a "Total Summary" at the top of a report would very helpful. In the reports lets say we select Volume Report and then select the columns we want to see. Be...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

DS8000 "Service Required" with Yellow components / orange triangle with an exclamation mark should occur ONLY IF IBM support is needed.

Customer First-Level-Operations has to manage multiple Systemes (including DS8000 with SIMs, SNMP-Traps and more). In case of any alert First-Level-Operations checks the situation by Messages and is using the GUI https://ip-addr/DS8000/gui#dashboa...
almost 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Integrate recommended Storwize multipath settings into Linux multipath defaults

Update the default multipath settings applied to any 2145 devices attached to a linux system to match the recommended settings advised by IBM IBM Storwize is the only storage type currently in this organisation where the vendor recommended setting...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

update TDPOSYNC to set objects as inactive

Hello, We have a security need to limit the potential access of rogue actors. Specifically, we need to ensure a single person cannot destroy both the production systems and their copies in backup. For most workloads we can use backdelete=no to pre...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

DS8950F LDAP works same time to AD and local users

Native LDAP - Only one DS8900F authentication policy can be active at a time: either the basic-local or the remote authentication policy.
over 3 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release