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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Hyper scale manager CSR Generation

This is for IBM Hyperscale manager application request for CSR generation for certificate renewal We don't find any option so we logged a case with IBM spectrum control
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Capacity Threshold Alerting

The monitoring "Threshold" only allows for a single value to be set, not a second value. Example. Warning Threshold is set to 70%, when the pool exceeds 70% a Warning level severity alert is send. There is not an option to set a second threshold a...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Alert Customization

We need that the alerts generated by e-mail from FlashSystem storage, have a better format for understanding the generated alert.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under 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...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Compression for Virtualize is Selective

Virtualize/Storwize Compression is selective by nature; meaning that it will allow you to compress data which will cause performance impact despite being able to identify non-compressible data. This leads to many performance related impacts.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Finding WWPNs for spare nodes in SpecVirt products is difficult

The main management interfaces for the Spectrum Virtualize family makes it difficult (CLI) to impossible (GUI) to find the WWPNs for spare nodes. On the CLI, the sainfo lsservicestatus command can be used to find the WWPNs on spare nodes, but addi...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Option to expand past 24 Flash Core Modules with NVMe expansion enclosure

In GTS we have set a All Flash strategy and need the option to expand past the 24 Flash Core Modules to provide high performance Flash with FCM HW compression to give a larger capacity when using the smaller 4.8TB and 9.6 TB FCM.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

add awk to restricted shell in spectrum virtualize

please add awk to available commands in restricted shell on storwize / spectrum virtualize systems
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Management IP issues in a Stretched SVC cluster

If the system is in a Enhanced Stretched Cluster or a HyperSwap configuration, an option to have all inbound and outboud Ethernet traffic (management, call home, etc) flow from Ethernet Port 2 should the control node be on site 2. This would allow...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

V7000 crontab entries

Associated RCMS 018T3Z4,866 We regularly experience V7000 cron job failures. As I understand it, the cronjob which is failing is the save of V7000 config which is scheduled for 01:00. As described in detail (RCMS 018T3Z4,866), the V7000's on the c...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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