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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Add support for SSH Batch Mode with MFA enabled

In current 8.6.x code, if MFA is enabled on a system, SSH Batch Mode functionality is broken (per SVAPAR-112569). SSH Batch Mode functionality is required for functionality of some external 3rd-party applications (including Galileo Performance Exp...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Update OpenSSH in the SpecV / FlashSystem firmware to allow the sftp protocol instead of scp

Our managment servers are based on RHEL. Which will be upgraded to RHEL9 soon. With RHEL9 the standard scp is depreciated.. (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/openssh-scp-deprecation-rhel-9-what-you-need-know) With updating the openssh version within...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Please provide OS support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for IBM Block Storage CSI driver

IBM Block Storage CSI driver already provided for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but this version is end of life april 2025. We and our customers plan to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in the next time.
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Planned for future release

NVMeoF vVol Protocol Endpoints support is missing.

As of now (8.6.3.0) there is only support for SCSI PE's in a VMware/vVol environment. So, VMFS volumes work fine with End-to-End NVMeoF from host to storage, vVol does not.To use vVols (which is a perfect match with NVMeoF) i need to create duplic...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add a setting to the "Update System" page to only suggest LTS releases

Every time I log into my FlashSystem UI it tells me there is an update recommended, suggesting the latest non-LTS release. In our production environment, we only want to be notified when an LTS update is available. A setting to "only show updates ...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add command that will display the eta for the full process to bring a drive back into use after its replacement.

In certain cases, you'd like to know the full time all work related to the replacement of a drive will take. For example, we had a major issue, with multiple hw components needing to be replaced. I can't replace the next one, until this drive work...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Build a possibility to upgrade existing FCM4 arays created by <8.6.2 to the new functionality with ransomware detection

Many customer will install on LTS versions for stability and fast coming PTFs. We will now deliver FCM4 modules with better ransomware detection possibilities. But it will not possible to use this with arrays formatted <8.6.2 , what is a CD ver...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

SSO login for CLI

For a while now, there's MFA SSO support for the Storage Virtualize GUI. However to comply with our internal security policy, we also need to enable this for CLI access to our storage systems. Please add CLI login support to the authentication met...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Per host PWWN data collection for IBM storage insights from IBM Storage Vritualise

The customer has a cluster of 5 hosts which uses a collection of 10 LUNS to get the production environment. When we see storage insights, the data collected is from the volumes in the storage and populated on the console. There's no data collected...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Add an option to sendcloudcallhome to allow users to test that they will be able to get to new support IPs, before the old ones are removed.

There are occasional changes to the support ips ( for example: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6991259 ). It would be beneficial to be able to test connections to the new IPs before the old ones are removed. An option could be added to the ...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review