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My votes: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Quality of Service with Service Level Objective

The storage already support QoS in terms of IOPS and Throughput and, I know, QoS is applicable to host, domain, pool, volume, and restricted combinations of these entities. This could be implemented in terms of "Group of Volumes", I mean, this gro...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Support use of Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) in virtual mode in conjunction with the IBM FlashSystem SRA in VMware SRM

MSP wants to provide possiblity of this setup to one of their tenants.
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

System managed throttles

Volumes throttling is managed at a canister/node level such that a throttle for a volume or server is the sum of what both canisters can deliver. If a canister were to fail the throttle can only deliver 50% of the original value. The throttle shou...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Apply disk fw without specifying all disk Ids with comma separator

When applying disk fw we usually need to specify which drive Ids to be selected, separated with a comma i.e 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13instead it would be nice to only type a range of Ids 0-13
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future 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 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Pool level mirroring - Protected Pools

The ability to mirror at the pool layer by creating a pool as a mirror pool to an existing pool (protection pool). Any volume that lands into the PRIMARY pool is automatically mirrored to the secondary protection pool. Removing the volume from the...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Out of space alert/warning from healthchecker should repeat

Storage Insights Healthchecker for FlashSystems monitors both effective and physical capacity utilization and generates a warning alert if the capacity usage exceeds 80%. However this warning is then not generated again until the capacity utilizat...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

SRA snapshots require meaningful name

snapshots created during failover/failback are being created without any decent naming convention (vdisk0 vdisk1 etc.. as vdisk names ; fcmap0 fcmap1 etc.. as fcmap names ; fcconsistgrp0 fcconsistgrp1 etc.. as consistency group names) > these s...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

FS9200 - Auto expand flash copy bit map space when allocating hyperswap volumes

The hyperswap volumes require flash copy bitmap space. This space is not autoexpanding and has to e manually set. Customer has to extend flashcopy bitmap space everytime manually to accommodate new allocations using instructions in the link below....
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration