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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem enhanced scheduling

Customers like to schedule Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem with a daytime granularity. For example, they like to schedule some copies only during working hours or working days.The copies' refresh counting must be based only on the hours/days ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Enable for storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time

Hello IBM-team,can you please enable for SVC storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time ?The goal is: generate warning events at three different storage pool utilization levels, which can individuall...
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Add vdisk home tier option for provisioning policies.

Depending on the type of mdisk tiers in an easy tier enabled pool, newly created vdisks may have their extents placed on a non-preferred tier according to customer preference. For example, in a pool with tier0_flash and tier_nearline, new vdisk ca...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

Add volume and host tagging and notes capability

It would be helpful to have the ability to apply filter-able tags and/or notes to volumes and hosts. VMware has this capability and it is useful for automation as well as organization. Tags can be used by automation to find a collection of objects...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

internal E-Mail client - add "sender address" and make authentication optional

with one of the recent major Versions, Storage Virtualize introduced a completetly new e-mail client, which is a great addition to the previous implementation. In the new client we can have a custom port and support for encryption. Also authentica...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Iimprove the Event Notification alert emails sent from FlashSystems

As reported: Our FS7200s are configured to send us email alerts whenever an event occurs on the system, including Warning level events, Informational level, as well as Error level. On a given day we may receive anywhere from 5 to 15 alerts of uniq...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

CLI Command to identify the name of the Firmware on the storage

Currently there is no command which identifies the name of the Firmware on the FlashSystem Storage devices. When we are trying to automate the firmware name cannot be obtained. So this causes a lot of issues whereby people assign random names for ...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

PBHA/R: increase total vol capacity

There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of the replicated volumes (hidden volumes - change volumes - don't count towards this figure). Limit is reached in this 3-sit...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

PBHA: Update location on a set of hosts at the same time

use case: the customer wants to be able to change the host location; with 180 hosts, it's not feasible to do it manually; request a possibility to filter hosts based on volume name and then multi-select to adapt; if that's not possible, filter on ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

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