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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Increase limits and remove restrictions for NVMe over Fiber Channel

Increase the limit of "NVMe over Fiber Channel hosts per I/O group = 16", (maybe to double that) and REMOVE the Volume Mobility restrictions #5: "SCSI only. Fibre Channel and iSCSI supported. NVMe not supported." IBM has been touting the usefulnes...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

non-destructive later-on encryption activation

When customers decide not to buy encryption enablement right away with a new FlashSystem but later on because eg they get this as a new requirement or change in corporate policy, they need to destroy all data on the system and re-create arrays to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Three site Async Replication - Spectrum Virtualize

The customer requirement consists of an application that needs to be in a 3-way async replication configuration between their 3 data centers which are outside of Sync distances.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Default behavior of formatting a vdisk should be selectable

Default behavior when creating or expanding a vdisk is to format the new capacity. Please allow the customer to customize at the cluster level whether the default is to format or not format.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Add Expand capability for fully allocated hyperswap volumes

Recently an option was added (8.4?) to FlashSystem software (Storwize) allowing easy expansion of in-use Hyperswap volumes through the GUI. An unfortunate restriction of this for us was that it cannot be used with fully allocated hyperswap volumes...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

SCSI Unmap support for Huawei OceanStor Dorado V5/6

Our German customer is using a lot of Huawei Arrays with SVC and need support for UNMAP command for external Huawei OceanStor Dorado storage.It is a very big and valuable customer
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

EasyTier Tier priority

Depending on the configuration or status of the pool, EasyTier might place initial data on a lower. This can result in poor performance as new data is added to a system.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Respect the TIER of the source volume when adding a volume copy to avoid performance impact

When a client adds a volume copy to a vdisk, for example when converting a volume from Basic to HyperSwap (but other situations would also apply), the SVC SW does not respect the TIER of the source volume when allocating the extents of the volume ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Disable selected Alerts and prevent daily messages.

We want the ability to disable 'recommended' Warning / Alerts from sending daily emails from selected events.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration