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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Remove -force option from stopsystem command when issued via the GUI (or make it optional)

When using the GUI (node actions -> power off) to power off a specific SVC node (eg a hardware repair action) the -force option is used in the command svctask stopsystem -force -gui -node x This bypasses the checks for volumes going offline or ...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

SVC HyperSwap and FlashCopy restrictions

In theory HyperSwap seems more appealing than an SVC stretched cluster and have some advantages regarding cross-site traffic and in case of an site failure. But if you also plan to use the FlashCopy technology, there are some restrictions I have b...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

See current system time in Gui when NTP is set.

Would like to be able to see the current system time in Gui on the NTP Tab, even if we have the possibility to use svqueryclock in Cli. Will make PD easier when comparing the time in tasks and events.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Disable selected Alerts and prevent daily messages.

We want the ability to disable 'recommended' Warning / Alerts from sending daily emails from selected events.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Hyperswap - estimator showing time running with failed communication

It would be nice to have command showing estimated time based on current and historical data transfer for which communication between sites can be broken till free space would be exhaused.
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

IBM SVC Port Intelligence

One of the IBM SVC port had errors (numbers loss of frames, buffer credits, link loss event). This caused one of the disk on windows server 2016 to go offline. THe request is to built an intelligence in SVC product itself to disable the port if th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Add host_unmap option in the auto config wizard

In case we have Flash system behind SVC storage and we are running the wizard of auto config for virtualization - it is important also to add option to configure host_unmap.since by default the wizard does not change the default value.host_unmap o...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Send an SNMP trap when an open problem is fixed, for SNMP server to clean/drop the alert.

Send SNMP traps when open problems are fixed so clients can automate the cleanup of open issues on their monitoring tools.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

MDISK removal advanced features

It would be great to be able to tune rmmdisk performance, I mean, selecting all mdisks to remove from a pool and ensure a few things: 1.- Do no write extends on mdisks that have been also selected for removal, it has no sense to put workload in md...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SafeGuardCopy data offload with system migrate

offload Spectrum Virtualize Safeguard copy volumes to another system to extend the retention period and avoid hitting system limits on vdisk and safeguard copy mappings.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration