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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

Increase available information on Audit log screen and reinstate scroll bars

In Spectrum Virtualize 8.5.0.2 (SVC) the Audit log screen layout and functionality has changed compared to 8.4.0.6. Up until 8.4 there are 21 entries visible, on 8.5 this is reducted to only 10. Changing the row height (smaller) only adds addition...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Provide encryption support to M2 internal disks to allow failed disks' removal at very large bank

In case of a failed M2 disk in large bank or other information sensitive company, the lack of encryption support for internal disks prevents returning failed disks to IBM for repair because large banks command retaining all non encrypted disk in t...
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Independent Certificates for Key Servers

Need to separate the client and server certificates for SafeNets Gemalto Key Servers. Currently, they are on the same certificate.
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Quantum safe Storage Virtualize

Even FCM is quantum safe, hardware is not complete storage. When connecting StorageVirtualize v9.1.1 ssh server, it shows that it is using OpenSSH v8.7. (it might be that older SV versions have even older OpenSSH, didn't check.) Open SSH latest ve...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

introduce "lsvolume" as a successor for "lsvdisk" to better meet today's architectural designs

A few years ago, additional features such as e.g. Hyperswap have been introduced and required a better differentiation of types of volumes (a.k.a. vdisks). Hence new commands such as "mkvolume" or "lsvolumehostmap", "addvolumecopy" etc. had been i...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

add capability to filter for "empty" or "non-empty" fields in ls-command outputs

The "-filtervalue" parameter allows to filter for particular strings or substrings when using "listing" commands such as lsvdisk, lshost etc. Currently, the "-filtervalue" parameter syntax does not offer the capability to filter for objects that h...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?

A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Support of CSI drivers for Rancher

There are various customers and prospective using rancher for their kubernetes containers, so it could be valueable to think and work on the support for those environments
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

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 ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Define object limits per user

Hi In case we are creating partitions on the Storage, and now for example OCP env using CSI driver , customer is now define user and script to create volumes/snapshots.If there is human error - the script can run in a loop - cause the system to re...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration