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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    support volume groups in ownership groups

    When using ownership groups to fence off volumes/vdisks and the associated hosts and mappings there's currently no support for volume groups which are in turn required to use policy-based replication for such vdisks. As we want to replicate vdisks...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Create a hidden command to allow a change for the number of concurrent SSH connections to SVC/FlashSystem

    The current limits of SVC/FlashSystem software to the admin connection limit the ability to run ansible playbooks and/or ssh automations during cluster migrations and can limit the ability to automate failovers of a large number of systems during ...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

    Provide the ability to change the system layer from Storage to Replication without requiring a resynch for systems with established partnerships to allow systems to participate in FlashSystem grid.

    Currently, in order for a FlashSystem to participate in FlashSystem grid they have to be in the replication layer. Prior to 8.7.0 arrays were shipped in the storage layer by default. My client has 21 FlashSystem arrays and 18 of them are currently...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    Management interface bond (port-channel)

    For environments that rely heavily on a working management interface (automation, flashcopy scripts) would benfit greatly with the ability to bond two of the ethernet ports for management. If common that the upstream switch can run a port-channel ...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    EasyTier Tier priority

    Depending on the configuration or status of the pool, EasyTier might place initial data on a lower. This can result in poor performance as new data is added to a system.
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    IBM SV data change rate integrated report

    IBM SV (SVC or FS family) need to have an intgrated way with GUI or Cli to collect data change rate in a specific time window and interval to enable SGC to be easier and correctly sized. It will helps to be more pervasive in SGC diffusion and more...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

    Additional parameter for repairvdiskcopy

    Additional parameter "-stoplba lba" for "repairvdiskcopy" command needed: -stoplba lba(Optional) Specifies the last logical block address (LBA) on which to finish the command. The LBA must be specified in hex, with a 0x prefix.
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    FlashSystem NAS

    Japanese VAD. I am afraid this is a simple question.Why is it that only IBM does not have a NAS that can be bought for about 1 to 2 million yen?FlashSystem's FCM is excellent as block storage.However, we are often told by our Japanese customers.In...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Increase number of extents per cluster

    Currently a system with extent size of 1 GiB does only support a managed capacity of 4 PiB. We need more scalability without using a larger extent size, e.g. managed capacity of 8 PiB with an extent size of 1 GiB.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Policy Based Replication Recovery Volume Names

    We appreciate the simplicity of Policy Based Replication setup; however, we are in need of these two features to be added: 1. Allow custom naming of the recovery volumes. This is needed because we do not use the same system names between each site...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

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