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Change Volume Reconfiguration due to WAN Interuption causes long recovery from WAN impacts

Stop SVC Change Volume reconfiguration due to WAN interruption. SVC GM CV's will cause a reconfigure (w/host IO quiesce) when WAN interruption occurs. The feature needs more resiliency built in to withstand interruptions from the WAN, as well as i...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

disable the disk signatures when doing the install of the data movers for TSM VE

When a customer installs TSM VE on a vStorage Backup Server for Windows using the SAN mode (i.e. data store LUNs zoned to vStorage Backup Server), the customer suggests that the install wizard tells the user that it will disable automatic disk sig...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

FCM support for Oracle DataGuard

The customer would like to use FCM with Oracle DataGuard to take point in time copies of Oracle DataGuard (source or target volumes).
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 3 Delivered

SVC currently supports 10 SSH sessions per system, lift this restriction to at least 20

Currently the SVC supports 10 SSH sessions per system;the request is to at least double this number to 20
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

512 LUN max per host

There is a Current limitation of 512 LUNs per host on the V7K; Customer requires at least 1024 luns attached to the same host.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

DS8000 DSCLI should allow query of current healt status of all the components

While logging in to the DS8886 GUI a coworker noticed that some of our DS8886's were in a 'service required' state. Apparently there was a failure in the service notification and the CE was not aware. After researching further we noticed several o...
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

SVC - increase maximal number of supported volumes per host from 512 to higher value

Hello SVC development team, could you please increase the maximal number of supported volumes per host to a higher level ? Currently the limit is 512 volumes per host. 1024 would be very helpful.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Greater than 512 LUNs per host on the V7000

The capability of creating at least 4000 LUNs per host. Current capabilities limit this number to 512.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Lockheed Martin SVC GUI

When looking at a Pool (MDG) in the GUI why does it only show the Virtual Capacity when the pool is over-provisioned?
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SVC - Multiple Thresholds

We like to see warnings on Pool usage but in a critical situation…a warning isn't enough. Today many warnings come through the system especially with Global Mirror….warning for pool space usage get lost easily. A warning with a higher criticality ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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