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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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128 mdisk per pool

The SVC has a limit from 128 mdisk per mdiskpool.This limit is clearly too small for performant enfironment. We need at least 512 mdisk or 1024 mdisks per pool. So the memory for caching can be better utilized. A breakdown of the memory does not m...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Compression for Virtualize is Selective

Virtualize/Storwize Compression is selective by nature; meaning that it will allow you to compress data which will cause performance impact despite being able to identify non-compressible data. This leads to many performance related impacts.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Issue an alert for less physical capacity

This idea is related to SCSI-I-1160. "Auto stop of Write operation against oops" may be too difficult, so I'll submit another idea. The customer encountered oops (Out of Physical Space) on FlashSystem 900 AE3 under V7000. The customer request...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

add awk to restricted shell in spectrum virtualize

please add awk to available commands in restricted shell on storwize / spectrum virtualize systems
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

indication of severity in the notification e-mail subject line

Currently, all notification e-mails shows "warning" in the subject line. Customer cannot which one needs immediate action and which one is really just a warning. Since each event is classified as "warning" or "error", the corresponding notificatio...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

snmp event testing functionality

One of my Expert care customers contacted me and specifically requested to submit a request for him to add the funcionality to be able to test snmp in future code releases. At the moment there is no such funcionality on FS7300 and they have to cre...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

allow metromirror between hyperswap clusternodes

Provide possibility to create metro mirror relationships between 2 storwize hyperswap cluster nodes.currently this can be only done through command line.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

EasyTier Pool new extent allocation on specific Tier

Build an option for SVC Easter pools so that we can set the allocation of new extents to a specific tier level.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC option to remove vdisk on schedule

Problem description: if vdisk deletions are requested, we always keep them an extra month ; this to prevent if a vdisk deletion was requested by mistake ; or to restore files from itCurrent workaround: we created some scripts to make this possible...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Volume Creation date and User data

We would like to see the ability to see the volume creation date and what user created the volume as a selectable field in the GUI
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration