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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Add 'fail-back to local' authentication for Remote Authentication users

Ideally, for Cyber-Security, all Spectrum Virtualize logins should be set up for Remote Authentication, with MFA (Security Verify/future ADFS?). And the Superuser account would be the only Local account, disabled per SGC Best Practices. However, ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Functionality already exists

Capability for "superuser" to set default volume provisioning settings for all new volumes

Capability for "superuser" to set default volume provisioning settings for all new volumes, Disable 'Enable Warning Threshold" by setting it from 80 to 0. This prevents unneeded warning events "Space Efficient Virtual Disk Copy space warning" an...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Add / create a CLI command in order to remove permanent "inactive" entries from lsfabric

With situations in which client changes zoning, this also includes when they are implementing NPIV from just physical ports (transitional), it is common to have bad manipulation from the multipath driver over the host paths which causes previous p...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

IBM Storage plug-in for VMware needs the ability to assign cache io group

When using the IBM Storage plugin for VMware to create RDM or when using the IBM VASA to create vVols we need to ability to assign the cache io group. when we create a new vdisk on storage pool io group1 we want the cache io group1 assign and not ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

parallel threads of volume / vdisk migation in SVC GUI

It is not possible to change the amount of threads for vdisk / volume migrations between mdiskgroups / pools inside the SVC GUI version 6.x
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Gui Enhancements - additional reporting fields

5. Would like the GUI to include the following enhancements: a. Host Tab - Need the ability to quickly identify per host the number of io groups in use, which io groups are in use, and the volume counts for that host in each io group with option t...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC - Ability to downgrade Code level or Revert to previous code level

During the upgrade process at the end there is a final step to commit to system. Would like an enhanced feature that allows for the previously installed code level to be maintained and provide an option to role the code back should issues be encou...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Flashcopy snapshot on stretched cluster volume should have same preffered node as the source volume

When creating a snapshot, flashcopy volumes are assigned on a round robin method. When in a stretched cluster scenario, when you create a snapshot, you want to keep the snapshot at the same site as the source volume to prevent unwanted I/O on the ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SSD host identification for IBM i

SSD Host identification for IBM i is very crucial for customer who have invested in SSD in DS5000 and DS8K.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Concurrent failover of SVC Config node

Currently if the SVC cluster needs to fail over the config node it causes the hardware node that is the config node to reboot. This can expose problems to the paths and servers connected to this node, which can lead to loss of access or the necess...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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