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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...

IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Coordinated snapshot of a single volume

use case: customer uses PBHA but has multiple db's in one volume group (due to limit on number of VG's); CLI would be sufficient (since it's integrated in a script)
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

HashiCorp Vault Key Management support for FlashSystem / TS7700

TS7700 using FlashSystem Storage supports KMIP for external Key Management. As Clients look to deploy HashiCorp Vault as their enterprise wide key management support is needed to incorporate IBM Storage Solutions.
19 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Ability to launch embedded command line shell from the GUI

Most of the configuration work i do is performed via command line, it would be really useful to have the ability to launch embedded command line session/s from the service options menu, this way putty etc would not be required in a separate window...
21 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Ability to configure PBHA and PBR between the same two storages.

Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

Continue CIM support

Applications like ServiceNow rely on CIM to retrieve data during discovery. Without CIM support (since version 8.6.1 and newer), new integrations (e.g. REST based) are required but not available. IBM already has/had the knowledge to provide a good...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Snapshot and VG Snapshot Transparency to Expert Admins

Currently the VG snapshots and vDisk snapshots are intransparent on the UI and cmd for expert administrators. Snapshot Disk are hidden and can only made visible with certain commands on the cmd but not on the UI. Which Snapshot rely on which other...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

SVC spare node functionality at Flash Grid level

Currently, SVC spare node is assigned to a SVC cluster. With new Flash Grid approach and storage partition mobility, only single I/O groups are supported. Thus, a natural evolution of multiple I/O group SVC clusters would be multiple single I/O Gr...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Allow Replication Partnership via secondary management interface

We run a MS and need to onboard customers, sometimes, via replication.Our primary mgmt interface is used for internal replication and is completely out of bound from customer networks. Allowing the establishment of replication partnerships over th...
7 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage

FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.
12 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review