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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    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...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Once you remove FC ports from default portset64, you are limited to 4 members per Portset. Add the option to reset the portsets so all of the FC ports once again fall to portset64.

    By default, all FC ports are members of portset64. If a user start experimenting with using portsets and then decides to return to the default, they are not able to because once you remove ports from the default portset64, you can only add up to a...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    add possibility to modify OpenShift PVC volumes attributes on IBM FlashSystems

    I would like to specify options like sync_rate or warning threshold in storage class when creating luns for OpenShift PVCs
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Allow customer to choose the amount of memory allocated to CSI driver

    Customer during provisioning of a large number of volumes from within OpenShift to FlashStorage FS9500 on the back-end, hit a limit related to the amount of memory allocated to the CSI driver by default. The customer would like to be able to selec...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    We need "UNIX/LINUX clear/Windows cls" command to clear the screen. The "cls" command should be an alias of the "clear" command.

    Need to clear the screen to focus on what is shown. It would improve debugging and when sharing a screen via WebEx.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Possibility to create volume clusters as host clusters

    Quite often I have to attach the same set of volumes to the same set of hosts. I would be handy to have volume clusters as host clusters.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Error/warning on degraded hosts

    Currently when a host is in degraded state, the events are not showing any warning or error. Hence there is a chance that these degraded hosts goes unnoticed. So I suggest to have a warning/error to be reported in the events for any host went into...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Increase available information on Audit log screen and reinstate scroll bars

    In Spectrum Virtualize 8.5.0.2 (SVC) the Audit log screen layout and functionality has changed compared to 8.4.0.6. Up until 8.4 there are 21 entries visible, on 8.5 this is reducted to only 10. Changing the row height (smaller) only adds addition...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Provide encryption support to M2 internal disks to allow failed disks' removal at very large bank

    In case of a failed M2 disk in large bank or other information sensitive company, the lack of encryption support for internal disks prevents returning failed disks to IBM for repair because large banks command retaining all non encrypted disk in t...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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