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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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SpVirt installation automation

The goal is to automate the initial installation wizard, to make the installation of tens of the same systems easier (use case = 60 FS5035s) Currently you have to first enter an IP address via the Technical Port. Having to enter that IP manually w...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

We need "UNIX/LINUX clear/Windows cls" command to clear the screen. The "cls" command should be an alias of the "clear" command.

Need to clear the screen to focus on what is shown. It would improve debugging and when sharing a screen via WebEx.
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Client needs "compressed size" and "Thin size" information be displayed in the GUI, like we have in lsvdiskanalysis.

Customer's Capacity plan Team needs "compressed size" and "Thin size" information be displayed in the GUI, like we have in lsvdiskanalysis.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Volume format should be faster or invisible to the user

Feedback from a user group meeting: On the CLI, the mkvolume command to create a new volume will always create an empty volume. No exceptions. There is no option to do otherwise so I know my volumes will always be created zeroed, which is great fo...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

RFE 51: Automated vdisk mirroring functionality

One of the big advantages SVC offers is the ability to non-disruptively move vdisksbetween backend storage arrays - SVC pools. However this is currently a manually intensive process and requires the administrator to start and stop vdiskmirrors. Th...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Candidate selection for sparenodes in standard stretched clusters

Add functionality to be able to specify what nodes a spare node is protecting in "standard" topology, either through the use of site_id or manually entered properties on the nodes. Site id's are used when selecting spare node when running "stretch...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

FS7200, use interfaces more dynamically

FS7200 network configuration is not suitable for our network design and security aspects.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Make IP Quorum App run as a service by default when it's installed.

Today the IP Quorum App is not installed as a service in the Operating Systems, so when the host where it resides is rebooted the client has to manually start the IP Quorum app again. If this is made as a service automatically during the install t...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

IBM Storage Virtualize Plugin for vSphere features missing

The VMware plugin for Flash Systems missing the following operations which are publish in :https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248505.pdf - IBM FlashSystem and VMware Implementation and Best Practices Guide - Marking the hosts as flash I...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Allow multiple REST sessions per user

We wrote some checks for an external event management system that query several parameters and events from the storage arrays through REST API. As we have multiple checks and a clustered event management infrastructure we sometimes have 2 or more ...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

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