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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Rebuild used extents with DRAID

The current design in DRAID is rebuild all of exents,even most of extents don't have real data.Customer hope to DRAID can support optimize mode that only rebuild used space.With optimize mode, rebuild time can be shortened significantly. This is v...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

FS9500 - inbound CHAP where we can manipulate the secret per host bases

ISCSI- Mutual Chap authentication Inbound: We see option to set system wide chap secret authentication for ISCIS attached hosts. Currently IBM offering System wide chap (being configured via chsystem CLI) is used for two way chap authentication wh...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

protection with rmvdiskaccess command

protection with rmvdiskaccess command
over 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 ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 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...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

In a Stretched Cluster, add ability to prioritize a site in case of a tiebreak/lost comm. between sites

Currently if we get a tiebreak situation where communication is lost between the sites in a stretched cluster, the nodes that can reserve the quorum disks first will continue to operate and the other half of the cluster will stop.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Support of SVC stretched incremental snapshot by Spectrum Copy Data Management (SCDM)

According to SCDM documentation, ii should be able to create mirrored snapshot when using an SVC with Enhanced Streched Cluster. Unfortunately this is not yet supported/working when Incremental Snapshots are used.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

SVC NPIV does not report information to event log

Currently in 7.8.1 it does not appear the NPIV reports to the event log when it moves virtual ports from one node to the alternate or spare. This prevents an additional layer of troubleshooting if the ports trigger a move.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

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