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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Improve Flashsystem grid abilities for daily operations (vdisk, host connections, lun masking, etc).

    We have customers requesting that our Grid solution allow them to manage, administer and configure the functionalities and components of the Storages through a single management interface, without the need to open a specific management interface f...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Compatibility matrix of Spectrum Virtualize - Automated process.

    Customers always have a hard time to check the compatibility matrix each time they need to upgrade version of Spectrum Virtualize. They need to do extensive manual workload to check the compatibility and they always complaining about it. Also cust...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

    Automatic Reclaim for VMWare Volumes in Standard Pools

    • Thick at host• Thin at storage• Space reclamation is not working on Standalone Storage Affects multiple clients; results in manual re-thinning (which is significant work) needed for accurate billing. This works automatically for virtualized pool...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Enable for storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time

    Hello IBM-team,can you please enable for SVC storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time ?The goal is: generate warning events at three different storage pool utilization levels, which can individuall...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    Additional parameter for repairvdiskcopy

    Additional parameter "-stoplba lba" for "repairvdiskcopy" command needed: -stoplba lba(Optional) Specifies the last logical block address (LBA) on which to finish the command. The LBA must be specified in hex, with a 0x prefix.
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Proxmox support for PBHA

    In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    Turn Thin Provisioning vdisks into read only instead of offline when they get full.

    When a Thin Provisioning gets full, instead of taking the vdisk offline turn it into read-only, so it's still available for read operations and avoids customer impacting events.
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Warning when deleting volumes they still have snapshots associated with them.

    Within the FlashSystem OS, when you delete a volume, the volume does not go away and remains in the system if there is a snapshot(s) associated with it. The OS does not tell you that it cannot delete, but simply places the volume in a delete(ing) ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 7 Future consideration

    Enable/ Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path

    Support Broadcom/Brocade Quantum Safe Data Path Technologie to encrypt FC Traffic between Server and Storage. Plus Traffic between SVC and Flashsystem and Flashsystem to Flashsystem. Why is this needed? It is needed for compliance under DORA and o...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem enhanced scheduling

    Customers like to schedule Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem with a daytime granularity. For example, they like to schedule some copies only during working hours or working days.The copies' refresh counting must be based only on the hours/days ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

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