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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Create flashcopy from "Volumes by hosts and clusters" view

It would be great to be able to create flashcopies from other places than "Copy services", like "Volumes" or "Volumes by hosts and clusters". Today, you need to first check what volumes are attached to a specific host or cluster and then go into "...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize and OIDC/OAuth2 authentication

UPS has begun to purchase FlashSystems storage. To date, they have deployed five FS9200 systems across two data centers, and we have an opportunity to sell more FS9200 storage systems moving to 2022. UPS recently informed us that they are adopting...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Enhanced Stretch Cluster / Site Awares for Servers

With SVC 7.2 the streched cluster is now site aware, but this is not reflected int the host connections. What is needed is a site awareness for the servers, so that SVC knows which host connection is in which location. Than SVC can use the ALUA pr...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC Hardware refresh (BFN)

SVC Hardware Refresh: more ports, 16 Gpbs, more Cache, more CPU, direct SAS storage attachment
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

I would like to have an option to disable "host degraded" warning message when using Live Partition Mobility on Power.

Virtual Fibre Channel configuration typically have 2 x WWPN to enable LPAR Mobility if they are AIX. Normally you are preparing the infrastructure by defining both WWPNs as part of the host aliases in both the SAN and the SVC (V7000).This automati...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC nodes with more than 4 FC ports

Instead of having the two 10 GB Ethernet ports in the SVC (2145-CG8) we need another 4 port FC adapter. As an alternative a new SVC engine should have at least 8 FC ports.
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

16GB FC HBA

V7000 and SVC need to be upgraded to 16 Gbps Fibre Channel infrastructure
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Text utilities in SVC / V7000 commandline

For several years, we have missed already the GNU text utilities on the SVC commandline. We have asked again and again but they never came into the SVC/V7000 code stream. We consider these utilities to present no security or OS load issue. On a HM...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Using SFP+ in the 25Gb HBAs on Spectrum Virtualize

25GbE supports both RDMA protocols and vanilla iSCSI. These don't use SFP+, however, they use SFP28, so you will need to ensure they have a switch that can connect at 25GbE AND has the connection support for SFP28. the 25Gb SFPs provided by IBM do...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC/v7000 Online resizing volume with replication, CSM (old TPC-R) can automate this if SVC not able to

Spectrum Virtualize does not support resizing volume with replication. We need to stop replication and resize both production and DR volume and start replication. This can be dynamically resizable if when we extend production volume, SVC/v7000 can...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

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