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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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MFA support in Storwize management interface

The mangement web interface of the Storwize storage products urgently needs MFA protection. This can be done supporting RADIUS (which will open for Azure MFA integration) or by some IBM designed SMS-based 2FA.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

High density enclosure

Currently the mac number of drives per enclusre is 24 using the 2,5" drives. The DCS3700 can have up to 60 drives per enclose
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC T3 recover fails to meet business need in recovery of replication and flashcopy associations

we lost a cluster and had to perform a T3 recovery. After the recovery it was identified that none of the Flashcopy mappings, replication mappings nor the consistency groups were recovered. Working with support it was expressed that those parts ar...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Lockheed Martin - SVC Pool Rebalance

SVC Pool rebalance! This is a manual process today.
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Stagger Remote Copy Consistency Group cycles

Would like Spectrum Virtualize to automatically stagger the cycles of Remote Copy Consistency Groups (RCCG's). When using GMCV's, all volumes in the RCCG start a FlashCopy mapping at the exact same point-in-time when a new cycle is started for the...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Automatically send audit log records to an external receiver

Currently audit logging is only stored on a cluster. It can be downloaded using 'catauditlog' or 'dumpauditlog'. Like the external syslog receivers, it should be possible to automatically send audit log records to an external receiver like RSA Nvi...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Three-site replication

The ability to replicate a vdisk (using global- or metromirror) to multiple sites concurrently.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize 8.4 increase visible size of RC group name in GUI Copy Services->Remote copy

In the SVC 8.4 GUI the remote copy consistency group name on the overview screen (copy services->remote copy) is limited to 11 characters which are then padded with multiple periods... (depending on the special characters used in the name) or t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SAML / SSO Authentication

Support SAML to further enhance security and ease of management in environments managing hundreds of devices, or requiring enhanced security mandates.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Forward Auditlog To Syslogserver

For security reason our systems in the data center have to send their auditlogmessages to centralized syslogservers.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered