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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Turn Thin Provisioning vdisks into read only instead of offline when they get full.

    When a Thin Provisioning gets full, instead of taking the vdisk offline turn it into read-only, so it's still available for read operations and avoids customer impacting events.
    over 6 years 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
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Disable Host Degraded for Direct-Attached Hosts

    This client has multiple distribution centers with small FS5x00s that are directly attached to a few ESX servers. The site is too small to justify SAN switches, and direct-attach is supported with NPIV enabled on 8.6+ code. In our configuration, e...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Is a defect

    Monitoring FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize with Prometheus and Grafana

    An increasing number of our clients is using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor their infrastructure. For Spectrum Virtualize-based storage only the following exporter is available on GitHub: https://github.com/IBM/spectrum-virtualize-exporter Ther...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Add Last Access Time to GUI Table

    While managing volumes, I often want to see how long it's been since a volume has last gotten an update. This can only be done from the CLI (lsvdisk | grep "last_access_time"); but it would be nice to be able to see it in the GUI.
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Three site Async Replication - Spectrum Virtualize

    The customer requirement consists of an application that needs to be in a 3-way async replication configuration between their 3 data centers which are outside of Sync distances.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    SCSI Unmap support for Huawei OceanStor Dorado V5/6

    Our German customer is using a lot of Huawei Arrays with SVC and need support for UNMAP command for external Huawei OceanStor Dorado storage.It is a very big and valuable customer
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    HTTPS support for Internal Proxy Server (not only HTTP).

    Because customers do not support HTTP protocol any more.
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Add DarkMode to the GUI

    I suffer with eye strain and light sensitivity and it seems like supporting a dark mode is pretty straight forward.
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Option to keep main menu to the left open when clicking on a sub-option

    I often move between different menus in GUI and I find it time-consuming and irritating that the menu is closed every time I click on a sub-option. I've tried both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox to see if different browsers behaved differently,...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

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