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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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EasyTier to stop hot writing when performance problem detected

Easy Tier should be able to detect when a performance problem is caused by an incorrectly labeled mdisk and back off hot writing.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Move GUI suggested task pop-ups to another location

With the availability of code stream 8.2.1.x in the GUI suggested tasks have been introduced which are visible in the main GUI. (clipboard icon). But each time a storage admin logins the GUI these items are also visible as a sliding pop-up at the ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Warn user of active Flashcopy before shutting down I/O group

During a maintenance of a back plane replacement on I/O group 1, all volumes were moved to I/O group 0, caching I/O group was moved to I/O group 0. But FCmap remained on I/O group 1. This brought down source and target volumes with FCmaps. Expecta...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support of SVC stretched incremental snapshot by Spectrum Copy Data Management (SCDM)

According to SCDM documentation, ii should be able to create mirrored snapshot when using an SVC with Enhanced Streched Cluster. Unfortunately this is not yet supported/working when Incremental Snapshots are used.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

SVC Encryption

SVC should encrypt the data written to the backend and is possible also data mirrored between SVCs
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Increase number of Vdisks

Eg. 32.000 Volumes/Vdisks per SVC cluster
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Display iogrp memory settings in gui and make cmmvc messages helpful to the user

The set of errors preventing the user from defining the objects are relatively unhelpful in wording. For example: CMMVC5970E The Remote Copy relationship was not created because there is not enough memory. The feedback from the gui/cli does not of...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

SVC automatic space reclamation

We need an automatic space reclamation for frontend LUNs which are presented by SVC to VMware .
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Expand Volume size of a Global Mirror primary

I'd like to be able to expand the volume size of a Global Mirror primary without having to: 1) Delete the relationship.2) Increase the size of all the volumes. All volumes in a relationship must have the exact same size (virtual capacity).3) Re-cr...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increase number of compressed volumes in an I/O group to beyond 200

Real-time Compression delivers great value to Storwize V7000 and SVC products. <br /><br />Currently the number of compressed volume copies is limited to 200 per I/O group. This limitation imposes challenges in the field with user...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

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