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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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

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.
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 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.
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...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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

Enabling and Disabling the Hash Algorithm at FLASH ARRAY.

Currently IBM added SHA256 & SHA3-256 to the list of hashing algorithms for iSCSI host connectivity. But IBM prohibit MD5 and SHA1 for iSCSI host attach although we implement higher algorithms that meet their requirements. As a customer (Fidel...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

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.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Include "date" command to report system-date on IBM Storage Virtualize products . . .

During automation, lot of times system date needs to be retrieved from storage system. Currently one has to run undocumented "svqueryclock" command. Would be better if we can provide/support "date" command (or some one word variance of it) to offi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

command to report version

This idea is specifically CLI related. Currently one has to run "lssystem | grep -i code_ " to get the code level running on IBM Storage Virtualize products. Most other products provide "version" or "ver" or some single word variation to report ve...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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