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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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...
almost 11 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...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

SVC automatic space reclamation

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

Spectrum Virtualize STAT tool in GUI

Incorporate the STAT tool into the GUI in SVC / Storwize Family (Spectrum Virtualize).
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

IP Quorum allow a chance to increase logging size 2. why is the application based on outdated java runtime

1. Customer would like a way to increase the size of logging for the ip quorum application for troubleshooting .2. why is this application based on an older java runtime .
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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

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...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Support for the new SCSI T10 standard

SVC needs to support the new T10 DIF standard so that currupted data is recognized
about 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