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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Make fcp port power statistics available via CLI

FCP port power going marginal is cauing performance issues at customers. Customers want to monitor for port power for proactive management instead of getting intermittant errors which happens when the power drops below good power levels.
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Use Redirect-on-Write for DRP Fully Allocated volumes

For FlashCopy (FC) to use Redirect-on-Write (RoW) instead of Copy-on-Write (CoW) in a Data Reduction Pool (DRP), current implementation requires both the source and the target volumes to be compressed + deduplicated, as the dedup reference countin...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Adding file system management to Flashsystem

Currently we have ceded the unified market to Pure, Netapp, and others and to help a client with file data requires a bolt on solution. We should either acquire Racktop's Brickstor and offer it as a add on for any Flashsystem as their product mesh...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Accuracy in SDP configs to allow for better list pricing

Currently the customer facing page leave a lot to be desired and to get a better idea of pricing requires additional work and calls and can take 1 to several weeks. Improving this and giving the client an idea of what kind of discounts are availab...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC HyperSwap and FlashCopy restrictions

In theory HyperSwap seems more appealing than an SVC stretched cluster and have some advantages regarding cross-site traffic and in case of an site failure. But if you also plan to use the FlashCopy technology, there are some restrictions I have b...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Enabling and Disabling the Hash Algorithm at FLASH ARRAY.

Currently IBM added SHA256 & SHA3-256 to the list of hashing algorithms for iSCSI host connectivity. But IBM prohibit MD5 and SHA1 for iSCSI host attach although we implement higher algorithms that meet their requirements. As a customer (Fidel...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Change the unit of retention for snapshot from days to hours

I have a client that needs to do more frequent snapshots and retian them for hours instead of days.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Disable selected Alerts and prevent daily messages.

We want the ability to disable 'recommended' Warning / Alerts from sending daily emails from selected events.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Allow IBM Flashsystems to have a trash bin to recover deleted volumes

Create a trash bin on SpecV to allow customer to recover deleted volumes by mistake with an auto-delete parameter after X days
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Launch CLI from GUI

I have received multiple requests from my customers to add the ability to launch the FlashSystem CLI from the GUI like other IBM products. Please consider adding this simple change.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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