IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    VSC, Self Service portal, increase in number of allowed servers mapings for a volume for ESX, Hyper-V

    A customer in middle east having VMware Cluster and Hyper-V with more than 20 physical servers. But VSC 5.2.5, Self Service portal , number of allowed servers mappings for a volume limited with 5. This is much less than ESX cluster and Hyper-V clu...
    about 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    IBM Storage plug-in for VMware needs the ability to assign cache io group

    When using the IBM Storage plugin for VMware to create RDM or when using the IBM VASA to create vVols we need to ability to assign the cache io group. when we create a new vdisk on storage pool io group1 we want the cache io group1 assign and not ...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    v5000 shows as 2076 instead of 2078 when zoned to SVC

    When customer adds a V5000 backend stores and zones to the SVC, it shows as a 2076 (V7000) instead of 2078 (V5000). Customer would like this to represent the correct M/T for the storage type added.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage 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 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Safegard Copy functionality running on FS5015/5035

    There are many small/medium companies in Japan. If the Safegard Copy function works with FS5015/5035, I believe I can aggressively propose it to small and medium-sized companies.
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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 7 years ago in IBM Storage 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 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Flashsystem should use multiple CPU cores to process I/O per Volume instead of just one core per Volume

    Layer 3 Communications (Customer) was experiencing low performance/high latency issues on their FlashSystem 5030 on a large Volume. IBM Support was engaged and the SME told them that this is because the FlashSystem is designed to utilize only one ...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    SVC Mirrored Volumes - Change all primary Volumes at once

    In SVC current releases, it is not possible to switch all primary volumes at once from one mirror to the other. It's only possible switch the primary state for each LUN (Volume) in the SVC for mirrored Volumes.
    over 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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