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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Show warning for mismatching "local fc port mask" upon attempt to add nodes to an existing cluster

Attempt to add nodes to an existing system failed with the candidate nodes being stuck in "adding" forever. This was caused by the configured "local fc port mask", which restricted the inter-node I/O to certain FC port ids. There was no hint, erro...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Log failed commands in auditlog or syslog

We are increasingly working with applications that "talk" to the SVC (and FlashSystems). In case of problems, we try to find out which commands these applications used.Commands that have failed are not logged, while this can be important informati...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

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
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

possibility to influence SVC quorum promotion

We would like to have the possibility to influence on which site the disc quorum will be promoted to active, once all IP quorum are not eligible quorum anymore.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

modify behavior of ldap authentication cache expiration

Currently ldap authentication cache expiration timeouts can be set via commandline:e.g.:chldap -authcacheminutes 60would set the authentication cache to be refreshed every hour. This is a fixed timer that starts to count when user logs in and woul...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Compatibility matrix of Spectrum Virtualize - Automated process.

Customers always have a hard time to check the compatibility matrix each time they need to upgrade version of Spectrum Virtualize. They need to do extensive manual workload to check the compatibility and they always complaining about it. Also cust...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

FS900 attribute "-rebuildpriority hostmax" works out well for client = Can this attribute be implemented in FS7200 , as client was looking for this option in FS7200 ( A LUG requirement )

Pls consider this request as Urgent/High priority FS900 attribute "-rebuildpriority hostmax" works out well for client = Can this attribute be implemented in FS7200 , as client was looking for this option in FS7200 ( A LUG - Large User Group requi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Out of space alert/warning from healthchecker should repeat

Storage Insights Healthchecker for FlashSystems monitors both effective and physical capacity utilization and generates a warning alert if the capacity usage exceeds 80%. However this warning is then not generated again until the capacity utilizat...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

SRA - unmap source volumes from hosts during failover

source volumes are only unmapped from the hosts during SRM "reprotect" operation instead of during "failover" operation
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

SRA snapshots require meaningful name

snapshots created during failover/failback are being created without any decent naming convention (vdisk0 vdisk1 etc.. as vdisk names ; fcmap0 fcmap1 etc.. as fcmap names ; fcconsistgrp0 fcconsistgrp1 etc.. as consistency group names) > these s...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration