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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Spectrum Virtualize 8.4 Password Policy

Per customer request:Spectrum Virtualize Password Policies Hello we would like to use the password policy in Spectrum Virtualize; however, we do not want the policy implemented for superuser, tpc user or storage insights (SIadmin) user. How can we...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

allow users to add a delay to trigger ESC quorum race in case of sites being disconnected to allow for SAN re-connection

allow users to add a few seconds to the SVC re-try and decision process before triggering a quorum race in case of loss of connection between sites. This would allow redundant inter-site connection to complete SAN connectivity between sites fail o...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Concurrent failover of SVC Config node

Currently if the SVC cluster needs to fail over the config node it causes the hardware node that is the config node to reboot. This can expose problems to the paths and servers connected to this node, which can lead to loss of access or the necess...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Hyper scale manager CSR Generation

This is for IBM Hyperscale manager application request for CSR generation for certificate renewal We don't find any option so we logged a case with IBM spectrum control
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Storage Target Selection for Comprestimator CLI and GUI

SPectrum Virtualize provides Comprestimator statistics on board the Spectrum Virtualize layer based on RACE algorithm. There e are other possible hardware / software compression targets (FS900, FS9100, ...) for which Comprestimator is available in...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Compression tool to measure performance and cache impact

Compression tool that allows assessment of performance impact, and not just disk space recovered. Also determine cache usage (enough for data compression ?)
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Capacity Threshold Alerting

The monitoring "Threshold" only allows for a single value to be set, not a second value. Example. Warning Threshold is set to 70%, when the pool exceeds 70% a Warning level severity alert is send. There is not an option to set a second threshold a...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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

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

Storwize V7000 automatic SNAP sent together with call home for problem notification

In case of hardware incident reported by automatic call home function of the Storwize have the possibility to send also an automatically generated SNAP.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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