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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Request: Domain should be written to email server notification

Domain should be written to email server. Right now only IP address is available.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC Does not warn of logical path loss to hosts

SVC Logical Path Loss. The Storage Admins are not aware of a SVC Logical Path loss. The Storage Admin is reactive when this happens due to not being alerted of the issue. Unable to be proactive and when server losses sight of storage. If Storage i...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Specturm Virtualize does not provide a warning for too many paths being presented to hosts.

Spectrum Virtualize does not provide a warning nor prevention of too many paths visible to hosts. This is very common and causes many performance impacts or non-optimal performance.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize Upgrade Utility is not aware of invalid multipathing configrations before upgrade

The SVC/Storwize/Virtualize Upgrade Utility does not check to see if proper multipathing is in place before code upgrades. This is a massive effort and could be done from the storage side by checking the number of host facing paths seen by the dev...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize does not warn or advise about number of backend paths

Spectrum Virtualize family of products do not advise administrators of missing paths (started at 4 and dropped to 2) nor does it advise when you have too few paths (2 instead of say 6 needed to take full advantage of backend storage) in the GUI or...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Storwize does not provide guidance for volume sizes

Storage Products in the portfolio do NOT provide performance based advice/guidance on running environments. For Example: I want to create a 16PB volume; Spectrum Virtualize instead recommends a more sensible volume size range.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Poor Backend Device Configurations are propogated to the Storwize

Poor Backend Device Configurations, for example: DS8K with 42 pools are not prevented or warned on during setup. This causes problems as configurations which propagate bad habits are just ignored
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Change to Remote Support Roles

Alter Monitor Use role to enable opening of remote support session and (optionally) send a SNAP. Alternatively create a new role - Remote Support (?) - that can do so.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

MDiskGroups/Pools require manual size selections

Actor: Virtualize UsersProduct: Virtualize Products (such as the SVC and V7000) which virtualize other storage devices do not intelligently size the mdiskgroups/pools on the backend. This allows Virtualize Users to define excessively large pools w...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Global Mirror has too many tuneables and most real-world deployments require tuning

Product: Virtualize Products Description: GM and MM tuneables should be reduced in number and complexity. For example: The product could calculate the bandwidth requirements for a GM relationship based on the IO load on a system and either a user-...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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