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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Password complexity and expiration

For the local user IDs on SVC, it would be good to have password properties that increased the complexity of the password as well as being able to include a time event that expires the password.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Make IBM block storage arrays provide the "port symbolic name" to HBAAPI clients

Other vendors' storage arrays populate this data with something useful that can be a vital hint for system administrators. Not providing it kind of bites. If this RFE is accepted, I'll put one in for the AIX team to enhance "fcstat" to report on it.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Immutable snapshot

Secure immutable snapshot support for Spectrum Virtualize code. similar to Secure Copy on DS8K. That allows multiple read-only snapshots, can not be deleted, or modified. can only be used by another group user than the original user.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Notification for offline volumes after the stop of FC mapping

When a FlashCopy mapping is stopped the target volumes (in case it is not 100% synced) goes offline. If a Spectrum Control server is monitoring the system, it sees offline target volumes in the same way as any other offline volumes regardless of t...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Include DNS

Include DNS for manage the NTP and eMail-Servers.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increase IP Remote Copy Replication speed for single volumes

As discussed with Albert Verhoef (IBM Pre-Sales Storage) I'll submit the following issue where we urgently needs a fix for: Our application can only use ONE volume. This volume is can be between 20TB to 347 TB in size. Test set on site is built as...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

HyperSwap: IP connection on IP quorum disk makes redundant so to avoid Quorum disk offline

System: Storwize V5030Actor: HyperSwap -----------------------------Understood HyperSwap technology is based on chassis level redundancy. In the meantime IP quorum is based on IP connection between storage nodes and tie-braker IP quorum disk. Howe...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Battery reconditioning required. Give the customer an option of an automated process

Since SVC, V7000, V5000, and The FS900 all share some of the same code I'll Use the V5000 as the example. My customer asked why are they bothered with having to take action when they receive a notification that "Battery reconditioning is required"...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

V7000 Spare Capacity distributed among disks in array rather than dedicated hot spare.

I think that the V7000 would greatly benefit from having distributed spare capacity rather than dedicated hot spares. The XIV benefits greatly from this and being that it's IBM's product, I expect it would be easy to get out there from a legal per...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC SCSI id assignement

Current way of SVC SCSI id handling in case of multiple I/O groups could cause problem with Clustered Hosts (like VMware) The problem is that an SVC with multiple IO Groups could present a LUN with different SCSI id to the members of an ESX cluste...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

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