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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

Add the ability to specify the key serving certificate when adding new key servers to the key server list via the WebUI

I am performing an upgrade/migration of our SKLM 4.2 environment to SKLM 5.0. The key serving certificate for 4.2 is different from the key serving certificate that is being used by the 5.0 environment. On older Storwize/Flash Systems firmware, wh...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

When Safeguarded Copies are in place it should not be possible to delete a Mdisk (should be a part of TPI)

At the moment, when you are using Safeguarded Copy, you can delete a VDisk of\and MDisk (even if TPI enabled). When deleting one or more Mdisks, Safeguarded Copy won't help you. So there must be a way to prevent deleting Mdisk(s) when SGC is in pl...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

HTTPS support for Internal Proxy Server (not only HTTP).

Because customers do not support HTTP protocol any more.
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Add Deleting Volumes to background processes when removing from DRP pool

When we've deleted volumes from the GUI they had removed but when we went onto the cli it showed these as deleting, this would be useful to show in the background tasks as then we could have seen these were still being removed off the storage as t...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Allowing a host to be a member of multiple host_clusters

Our strategic FlashSystem customers has requested an enhancement to improve flexibility in their environment. Today, a host can only be associated with a single host_cluster, which limits certain operational scenarios. The 1:1 restriction creates ...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Allow choosing the snapshot name for a volume group

Hello Development Team, One of our main FlashSystem platform customers in Brazil, the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3), believes that, for a more customized experience, it would be important to allow choosing the snapshot name when a snapshot policy ...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

introduce "lsvolume" as a successor for "lsvdisk" to better meet today's architectural designs

A few years ago, additional features such as e.g. Hyperswap have been introduced and required a better differentiation of types of volumes (a.k.a. vdisks). Hence new commands such as "mkvolume" or "lsvolumehostmap", "addvolumecopy" etc. had been i...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

add capability to filter for "empty" or "non-empty" fields in ls-command outputs

The "-filtervalue" parameter allows to filter for particular strings or substrings when using "listing" commands such as lsvdisk, lshost etc. Currently, the "-filtervalue" parameter syntax does not offer the capability to filter for objects that h...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

task-based TPI

The way Two Person Integrity (TPI) is currently implemented collides with our security policies and is not considered a true "4 eyes principal". When SecAdmin1 approves a time slot of X minutes for SecAdmin2 to do anything with superuser powers th...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

We want to use the secure port 587 instead of port 25 in the email server configuration section of IBM StoreWise storage systems.

We would like to add username and password authentication management to the email server configuration section of the IBM StoreWise storage GUI for versions below 8.6. This way, we would like to use the secure 587 port instead of port 25.
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Functionality already exists

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