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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Spectrum Virtualize STAT tool in GUI

Incorporate the STAT tool into the GUI in SVC / Storwize Family (Spectrum Virtualize).
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Ability to hydrate volume group snapshots to existing volumes for subsequent days

Customer has come from A9000 to FS9500 and wanted to used Volume Group snapshots but found that he couldn't do subsequent rehydration onto known volumes so made it difficult to script nightly snapshots to perform backups on media server. We need t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

DNS names instead of IP addresses

The system currently limits our flexibility to change our environment. If a syslog server or a NTP server can only be specified by IP address and not by DNS name this limits my migration options. If the StorWize would accept DNS names instead of a...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

V7000 Performance Monitoring for EACH MDisk and Volume

V7000 Performance Monitoring should have selectable details and panels for EACH MDisk and Volume, in order to let users see different behaviour of each environment/host type connected to the SAN
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SCSI UNMAP Support for SVC 7.7.1.6

Space reclamation is esstential for our Enterprise as space is rapidly consumed. The use of the SCSI UNMAP command is necessary to reclaim large amounts of space that has recently freed up by servers in the environment.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support for the new SCSI T10 standard

SVC needs to support the new T10 DIF standard so that currupted data is recognized
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Mimimum volume datarate for HyperSwap primay site switching consideration or Primary site enforcement for volume pairs

The RFE proposes to create a client input parameter acting as a threshold (expressed in MB) instructing the HyperSwap site optimization module to ignore write traffic below the threshold. Alternatively the RFE proposes to create a CLI command allo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Remote support should log into systems to collect logs

Problem description: Remote support should proactively log into systems to collect logs to prevent frequent back-and-forth requests for data which can extend a call days/weeks.Current workaround: Customer collects logs at support's request and upl...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

protection with rmvdiskaccess command

protection with rmvdiskaccess command
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Multi level tiering on V7000

More than two level tiering. I.e the ability to combine storage pool of SSD, SAS and NL-SAS and have data migrate between the the way easytier works with data starting in the middle tier and migrating to NL-SAS if it isn't used and upwards to SSD ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered