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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Ability to clear HBA port counters from port statistics without reboot

Part of ongoing monitoring, and also as troubleshooting aid after a repair is completed, it would be great to have ability to clear FC HBA port statistics. Note: Counters referred to are the CRC errors, loss of sync, etc which can only be cleared ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Increase number of extents per cluster

Currently a system with extent size of 1 GiB does only support a managed capacity of 4 PiB. We need more scalability without using a larger extent size, e.g. managed capacity of 8 PiB with an extent size of 1 GiB.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

V3700 ThinProvisioning does not work as advertised

V3700 Thin Provisioning does not work as advertised.We consider "IBM Storwize V3700: Ideal for VMware environments" => http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/tsf03029usen/TSF03029USEN.PDFSince Storwize does not currently support the VMware...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FlashSystem intelligent QoS

Although FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize have the capability of do throttling of IOPS and MBps to a specific LUN or Pool, I have more than one customer that would like to have the capability of specify SLO, for example, implement QoS with differ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

SVC 2145-DH8 Use IMM port for remote access/control

SVC Nodes are commonly installed in multiple Data Centers, not all Data Centers have a support personnel at all times, and in certain circumstances the SVC Nodes require physical access in order to Reboot the Nodes. Currently the IMM Port of the S...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

V7000 / V3700 / SVC GUI Based Flashcopy Scheduler

Our customers are requesting an enhancement to the V7000 to include a basic scheduler of flashcopies per LUN. EMC and Netapp both offer this compelling feature. Smaller shops do not want to purchase or deal with the complexity of Tivoli Flashcopy ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

FlashSystem NAS

Japanese VAD. I am afraid this is a simple question.Why is it that only IBM does not have a NAS that can be bought for about 1 to 2 million yen?FlashSystem's FCM is excellent as block storage.However, we are often told by our Japanese customers.In...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

RFE 51: Automated vdisk mirroring functionality

One of the big advantages SVC offers is the ability to non-disruptively move vdisksbetween backend storage arrays - SVC pools. However this is currently a manually intensive process and requires the administrator to start and stop vdiskmirrors. Th...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Vdisk mirror – out of sync condition / reporting

It would be a great improvement to show stale copies immediately in the Event Log, send as an SNMP trap or for example an email notification.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Extend PBR command set

Currently PBR has some "limited" set of command available, because the idea was to keep it simple and more automatic possible. Some customer which are exploring PBR, believe that having the chance to "STOP" and "START" a VG replication w/o necessa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

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