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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Single pane of glass for FlashSystem management

Many A9000/R (even still XIV) customers are migrating to Spectrum Virtualize. EVERY one of my customers that has done that asks for the equivalent of HyperScale Manager for FlashSystems. It is a huge whole in the management process of FlashSystems...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Call home via non-config node during SVC cluster crash

Closing complaint AB6210 for Geodis SVC cluster crash, it has been identified that during the crash of the whole SVC cluster, no call home have been sent.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Allow more than 1 IBM Storage Insights instance to monitor IBM Storage devices using Call Home with Cloud services

There are companies that provide data hosting services that manage IBM storage devices for other companies, and there are times both companies want to monitor the device using IBM Storage Insights. If both the company that use the device and the c...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Allow more authentication services for multitenancy

Currently only one authentication services can be defined in Spectrum Virtualize systems. Although the storage allowes more authentication servers to be registered, but that for reliability (availability) reasons. (same domain) The goal is to achi...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Add new statistics for internally generated operations that contribute to backend I/O

Add new statistics for internally generated operations that contribute to backend I/O.The new statistics should be reported for the mdisks by node.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Increase number of SVC Partnerships

Increase the maximum number of SVC partnerships (current max is 4)
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Virtualize/SVC support for Dell EMC VPLEX backend

Customer plans to use IBM SVC as a hub for storages, provided by other vendors, including competitors. Quite a few of the storages are hidden behind VPLEX virtualization and thus can not be virtualized by SVC/Storwize family. It limits the mobilit...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

DRP Pool Metrics per vDisk -> Sizes and Savings

The vDisk display in DRP pools must match those of the legacy pools. Especially the size display and the savings have to be transparent. New functions like deduplication and compaction schould get their own metric as well.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Throttle option for SCSI UNMAP to backend mdisk

Request for Spectrum Virtualize software ability to control the rate of SCSI UNMAP workload sent to backend mdisks. When vdisk remove is executed on non-DRP pool, the rate of UNMAP commands to backend appear unlimited and need to have ability to c...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

How to gracefully stop the IP quorum application on host

Customer raised question :" how to gracefully stop the quorum application and shut that RHEL server down." Presently , we don't have stop command - hence we have to be dependent on host shutdown It will be good idea to add this new functionality "...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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