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My votes: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Automatic pool size increment by simple resize of underlying mdisks (e.g. Storwize LUNs)

Increasing the size of a pool consisting of mdisks from Storewize needs the following steps according to an discussion with our external partner:- create new LUNs on Storwize and map to SVC- integrate into pool on SVC- migrate data to bigger LUNs ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

CLI to set Restful API requests limits

As for now request limits for restful API are hard-coded in SVC. See table in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sanvolumecontroller/8.5.x?topic=svc-spectrum-virtualize-restful-api. For some use cases it makes sense to set the limits higher to enable aut...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Use Volume Groups for host mapping

Volume groups have become more and more useful for new functions such as SafeGuarded Copy, Snapshows 2.0 and regently Policy Based Reprication. While some customers my not be able to utilize the new functions new or when they start with a new flas...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

DRP Pool -> Migrate vDisk between DRPs

Introduction of the migratevdisk command for DRP pools.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

DRP Pool -> show internal volumes in vdisk list or on a seperate list

Producing transparency, not just accounting for the consumption of internal volumes in the pool, but displaying those volumes in the volume list of consumptions.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Repeat email alerts are often indistinguishable from "new" email alerts. Add the word "Reminder" to subject line.

The SVC will send reminder notifications about errors/events that have not been "Fixed" every 24 hours. When these reminder emails are received, the text in the subject line is exactly the same as the original email notification. This duplication ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Create new user group and role that can only Start/Stop Remote Support Assistance

Currently administrator or restricted administrator role is needed to start or stop a remote support access session. This does not meet our security requirements since this role can perform many other functions. We want a role that does only one t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Intellectual disk drive updates

If the system has multiple types of disks and a user tries to upgrade all of them, some disks may fail to update. This causes the whole upgrade process to stop and leave all the remaining disks (even upgradable) at an older version. In this case a...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Increase available information on Audit log screen and reinstate scroll bars

In Spectrum Virtualize 8.5.0.2 (SVC) the Audit log screen layout and functionality has changed compared to 8.4.0.6. Up until 8.4 there are 21 entries visible, on 8.5 this is reducted to only 10. Changing the row height (smaller) only adds addition...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Provide encryption support to M2 internal disks to allow failed disks' removal at very large bank

In case of a failed M2 disk in large bank or other information sensitive company, the lack of encryption support for internal disks prevents returning failed disks to IBM for repair because large banks command retaining all non encrypted disk in t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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