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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    An option to edit the autorefresh timer of the FlashSystem GUI

    The new FlashSystem GUI has a autorefresh function that is not editable.So if you are looking at the Volumes screen for example after a few minutes the screen refreshes and you are back at the top even though you selected a volume in the middle of...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Is a defect

    Addition of reclaimable space on lsvdiskanalysis and/or GUI volume properties

    With the avenue of reclaim_se utility to automatically reclaim capacity of thin vdisks part of standard pools, clients are starting to ask support at times regarding the reclaimable capacity on their volumes. The command lsvdiskanalysis, from clie...
    12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    Password expire message on GUI

    Customer has a suggestion for improvement so that when a password expires or is about to expire, a corresponding message appears in the GUI when trying to log in, as it currently only appears on the CLI.
    12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Planned for future release

    Support for AWS Outposts with FlashSystem Storage.

    Currently NetApp and Pure Storage seem to be the only vendors which do support this on-premises delivery model for Amazon. If we had support for this as part of the FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize portfolio, our Business Partners would have an IBM ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Include feature license entitlement information in CLI/REST API output (e.g. lslicense cmd) to distinguish between "all inclusive" and "traditional" license model

    With the introduction of the FlashSystem models, the licensing for flashcopy, virtualization and remote copy requires no additional license anymore, but rather all these features are already included by default. This renders the license attributes...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    Flashcopy Mapping - right click restore

    Problem Description I just spent 3 days with IBM support trying to figure out how to restore a flashcopy from a target volume to a source volume. Finally support found a 2013 storewize v7000 redbook that listed to 2 commands. (ie Creating a revers...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    PBR verify replication direction change when using CLI

    PB Replication: In certain instances the QA databases are refreshed daily from the Global Mirror targets. With the current process on the SVC you can specify the replication direction for example “svctask startrcconsistgrp -force -primary master 5...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Ability to manually exclude specific cipher suites for SSH

    We've been chatting to support desk about the support for disabling/excluding specific cipher suites for SSH. As geographical perspectives (and thus necessities) could potentially differ from one another, we'd like to opt for a feature request, fo...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Ability to configure PBHA and PBR between the same two storages.

    Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

    volume formatting visibility

    it would be great to display or at least inform the user that volumes are being formatted at creation or extension in the gui maybe allow to disable the format option in the gui
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

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