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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

3-site support for low-bandwidth links to DR system with automatic mode switching

Since 8.7.1 we offer a 3-site HA+DR solution, but it requires a high bandwidth link to the DR system. Most customers are asking for a 3 site solution with a low-bandwidth link to the third site. Standard PB Replication offers an automatic mode swi...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Direct Connection two Flashsystem without 'planned' error

Hi IBM, Direct cabling of two FlashSystem devices over Ethernet for PbHA results in a degraded partnership and Error 880. And even if it is supported, it’s difficult to explain to a customer, and it can lead to overlooking actual partnership error...
20 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

IBM block storage CSI driver, increase ssh connections on FlashSystem

Who benefits: OpenShift customers with one FlashSystem, but more than one Openshift Cluster How it should work: the FlashSystem Software should increase the number of SSH connections. This enable customers to use a single FlashSystem as a Storag...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Track Thermal Throttling on Drives

We recently had a performance issue, that IBM support was able to track back to thermal throttling on a drive based on data from a Snap-4. Would it be possible to track this information in events so that we could have an insight into how frequentl...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

VM clones should be created and made available in seconds, not minutes

For our ETH Zurich internal customers we need to be able to provide new VMs automatically, sometimes in large numbers, and we must be capable of creating and making such VM clones available within a few seconds. Moving VMs within a VM datastore cl...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Send error notification in case a physical ISL in a PBHA System Partnership fails

Can the IBM issue an error notification by the FlashSystem, that is joining a PBHA relationship, in case a physical ISL fails, which is part of the related System Partnership ? It would be good to get a similar error notification as the Cluster Pa...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Enhancement of Centreon Flashsystem Connector

Centreon offers Onprem infrastructure monitoring. It benefits of a very old Stowize connector. It collects only basic metrics but nothing about ransomware or datareduction by example. https://docs.centreon.com/pp/integrations/plugin-packs/procedur...
7 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

partition-specific CLI prompt

starting with 9.1.1 we can connect to individual partitions. when doing so thru ssh the CLI prompt (PS1) still shows the full controller's name. it would be very handy to have the partition's name displayed here. especially if you're operating on ...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Improve handling of Snapshot (hidden FCMap in stopping state) cleanup

Currently, there isn't much to indicate that a FlashSystem is having a hard time doing it's VolumeGroup Snapshot cleanup. If you look at the VG in the GUI, you'll see that the count of snapshots is greater than the number of snapshots that are act...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

The option to display host site column in Gui was removed in 8630 and above, we want it added again.

The option to display host site column in Gui was removed in 8630 and above. Client want to be able to have it added again. It does allow you to set the site normally when creating host, and "lshost" also shows the host site, but in GUI there is n...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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