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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

IBM SVC Port Intelligence

One of the IBM SVC port had errors (numbers loss of frames, buffer credits, link loss event). This caused one of the disk on windows server 2016 to go offline. THe request is to built an intelligence in SVC product itself to disable the port if th...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

For DRP show used_capacity_before_reduction in the GUI

When using DRP, Real and used capacity is not shown in the GUI. Used capacity is actuyally available from command line as "used_capacity_before_reduction". I suggest that this value is presented in the GUI for DRP volumes.
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

MDISK removal advanced features

It would be great to be able to tune rmmdisk performance, I mean, selecting all mdisks to remove from a pool and ensure a few things: 1.- Do no write extends on mdisks that have been also selected for removal, it has no sense to put workload in md...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

lsvdisk command has vdisk_UID as parameter option

Have the ability to isolate an lsvdisk based upon the vdisk_UID without the need to include -filtervalue. As it currently stands in the documentation you can use object_id and object_name to get the specifics of a vdisk, the proposal I am making i...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Unique identifier for virtualized Spectrum Virtualize products to allow better integration with VMWare

VMWare users who are virtualizing multiple different models of Spectrum Virtualize controllers behind SVC have no way of differentiating these at the VMWare as they are all presented of type "2145" or "SVC". This means that different round-robin p...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Multifactor Authentication (MFA) support for RSA SecurID

Many large, heavily regulated enterprises require multifactor authentication (MFA) on mission critical technology assets. One of the most popular on-prem MFA solutions is RSA SercurID. RSA is supported on the IBM enterprise DS8k storage product, i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Volume compressionratio with inlinecompression

There is no view available about the compressionratio of a single volume.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

SafeGuardCopy data offload with system migrate

offload Spectrum Virtualize Safeguard copy volumes to another system to extend the retention period and avoid hitting system limits on vdisk and safeguard copy mappings.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Capacity-less child pools to use for QoS

Allows the use of QoS settings for pools of volumes to be different than other pools of volumes. This could be used for prod vs non-prod, or broken up by different business units for a customer.
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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