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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Improve alerting when "Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working

We have noticed that “Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working our 9500 arrays causing gaps in our performance data. This has happened before on our arrays and there is no alerting that tells us, either on the array, or within Storag...
about 1 year 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

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

Increase number of SVC Partnerships

Increase the maximum number of SVC partnerships (current max is 4)
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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.
over 6 years 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.
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.
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration