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253 VOTE

lack of scsi unmap primitive

In the current firmware version there is no scsi unmap primitive.In a vmware virtualization + v7000 thin provisioned volumes, this is a must-to-have feature unless the space, sooner or later, will end without reasons
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 20 Delivered

TS4500 implement for Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) / Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, users must utilize multifactor authentication in many systems today to prevent potential misuse and compromise of a system. For this and other customers security and related resiliency i...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Snapshot and volume management improvements

A recent sale to a non-IBM customer has shown just how poor our basic management capabilities are within the GUI.We were compared to their 5 year old Nimble array and we did not stand up well. Snapshot scheduling; Simple snapshots that are created...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Monitoring of host latency during Global Mirror for Spectrum Virtualize

Customers use GM when there is a requirement to maintain an aggressive RPO. However during GM there could be instances when the quality of link between DC & DR can deteriorate due to packet losses or high latency which could be a temporary phe...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered
103 VOTE

Increase maximal synchronization rate for VDisk-Mirror relationships

Can you please increase the maximal possible synchronization rate at VDisk-Mirror relationships to a higher value than the currently max. possible value of 64MBps per VDisk ?
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Storage Insights Should Not Consider an Offline Host as an Error Status for an Entire Array

In the most recent update to Storage Insights, the tool started counting any Offline host connections as an Error condition for the entire array. In our environment we have many hosts/connections which for various reasons (eg AIX LPM, DR sites, &a...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Delivered
107 VOTE

Multi-Tenant management support inside Spectrum Virtualize (SVC)

SVC supports Delegation of Control (Role Based computing) of Functions, but not of Data/Objects. A user in a certain role, can work with all Objects, also those created by other users. This RFE request the introduction of additional functionality ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Add GM Master Location to Global Mirror Info tab

With newer CSM sessions including multiple GM legs simultaneously, it would be very helpful to show the Location of the GM master in the display. This would help identify and differentiate the GM masters and lead to less confusion.
2 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

CSM Primary to automatically reconnect to the standby server after the standby CSM task is recycled or vice/versa Standby reconnects automatically to Primary

Every time one of our CSM started tasks is recycled or if an lpar is IPL'd when the CSM started task comes back up it does NOT reconnect to either the standby or the primray (depending on which CSM task that was shutdow/restarted. The ability of t...
3 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Missed and failed ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the node on all platforms.

Missed and failed ANR messages do not display the actual hostname and of the node on all platforms. ANR2579E Schedule schedule name in domain domain name for node node name failed (return code return code ). ANR2578W Schedule schedule name in doma...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Delivered

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