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SPP ram requirements

Spectrum Protect Plus has 2 main components; SPP appliance (management) and vSnap.They both has high amount of RAM requirement.We are having issues when explaining this requirement to our customers as MSP. Because as the amount of data grows, the ...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

TS7700 - Customer request 3rd or 4th level power redundancy within the frame - critical outage occurred because building power maintenance left the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. Without addtional redundancy, the box came down.

Critical outage occurred. Building power maintenance being performed turning off one power leg leaving the TS7700 running on one PDU and that one failed. The box ultimately came down, having a 3rd of 4th PDU would've allowed this frame to stay pow...
8 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Enable automatic upload of log files / snaps when a Call Home is triggered and case created

Like Spectrum Scale has this option Event-based uploads: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.0?topic=upload-event-based-uploads , can a similar option be created in Spectrum Virtualize so when a Call Home is triggered and a case is open...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Balance workload over ISLs based on latency, not throughput

In ESC when there is congestion on the ISLs in one fabric, SVC should be able to detect the increasing latency on the operations (mainly writes), and then send them through the healthy fabric. Current behavior is to balance the traffic between the...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

DS8 Create Volume Sets Summary View Should Include Column to Show if Volumes are to be Mapped to a Host/Cluster or Not

In the Create Volumes view in DS8 9.3 GUI, when we create a new Volume Set and Save it, the summary table of volume sets to create includes Volume Name, Pools, LSSs, Volume Addresses, Capacity, and Provisioning, but there is no indication in that ...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

DS8 2 Improvements to Create Volumes from Host Context Menu

When a user chooses the Create Volumes option from the Host context menu, that it limit down the provided options to volume types that are actually compatible to the Host Type. Eg if the host is AS/400 then only include "Create Volumes for IBM i"....
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

Option to disable security notifications

We need an option to disable "security notifications" entirely.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Increase online (in memory) audit log entries

Increase number of audit log entries visible in the GUI.In the SVC code the number of online (GUI) visible audit log entries has been limited to 500. (I cannot remember in which code this started as this has been higher before, at the moment we ar...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Detection of unbalanced metrics for spectrum virtualize machine

example 1In spectrum virtualize family , IO group is made of two nodes.Usually the metrics of those two nodes should be about similar, if two nodes (of the same IO group) are showing very different value for same metric this may be the sign for a ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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