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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Tuning off Alert definition : remove 2017

    Hi, From SVC 8.6.1.0 and 8.7.0.0 an new Alerte is noticed in Events Log : "2017 - One or more configured hosts are offline" So users receive by mail each time a 'host' become OFFLINE. We are using 'Flash Copy' every day so we are starting ang stop...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Delivered

    Replication policy - Timer for Recovery Copy Sync

    We currently see a countdown for the # of TiB remaining, would it be possible to add a time showing the approximate amount of time unles the recovery copy is in sync?
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    Policy Based Replication Allow rename of Volume group with replication policy assigned

    For our larger customers where we are (currently) replicating with GM/GMCV consistency group names are chosen alongside with the customer as they would like to easily identify by CG name to which application the volumes in the consistency group be...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    Allow CSI driver for Flashsystem to define PortSet

    The client is using FS9500 to automatically provision Block Storage to BareMetal Openshift servers through the IBM CSI Driver.As a shared infrastructure the client has deployed separated private network for each OCP cluster with Portsets.Today the...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    For DRP show used_capacity_before_reduction in the GUI

    When using DRP, Real and used capacity is not shown in the GUI. Used capacity is actuyally available from command line as "used_capacity_before_reduction". I suggest that this value is presented in the GUI for DRP volumes.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

    lsvdisk command has vdisk_UID as parameter option

    Have the ability to isolate an lsvdisk based upon the vdisk_UID without the need to include -filtervalue. As it currently stands in the documentation you can use object_id and object_name to get the specifics of a vdisk, the proposal I am making i...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

    ibm.storage_virtualize.ibm_svcinfo_command module to have filtervalue options available for use

    The ability to have the filtervalue option available would enable searching through lsvdisk to be a much more efficient when it comes to utilising the Ansible Collection. It would reduce the dependency on having to handle the large output from an ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

    Capacity-less child pools to use for QoS

    Allows the use of QoS settings for pools of volumes to be different than other pools of volumes. This could be used for prod vs non-prod, or broken up by different business units for a customer.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    CSI Block support for modern Operating Systems and Orchestration Platforms

    The IBM Block Storage CSI Driver is missing Support for new Operating Systems versions (RHEL9, RHCOS 4.14/4.15, Ubuntu 22/23) and also for new versions of Orchestration Platforms (RedHat Openshift 4.14/4.15, Kubernetes 1.28/1.29). The Today Suppor...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

    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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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