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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...

IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

IBM FlashSystems using PBR is readonly on the AIX Hosts. Cannot send any IO to the luns so the AIX host is failing the paths.

IBM FlashSystems using PBR is no IO (No read or write) on the Mirror/DR side impacting operation procedures on the AIX Hosts. They cannot send any IO to the luns so the AIX host is failing the Paths. Validate the paths are clean by doing a healthc...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Volume hot expansion support for PBHA solution

The client has two FS5200 and implemented PBHA, but is questioning that it is not possible to perform hot volume expansion, he requested documentation showing that it is on the roadmap.
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

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...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI

Client would like to see value similar to what is posted on Storage Insights (SI) and Spectrum Control (SC) in the GUI - This is creating lots of confusion when they ask why values are not showing similarity and why there is big differences in val...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Planned for future release

FS5200 support GKLM 5.0

Customer have implement latest GKLM version V5.X to encrypt FS5200.When trying to connect Disk equipement to GKLM , FS5200 complaint about not supported ekm server.Raising ticket TS019138372 , we got feedback this page stating the supported list h...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

support volume groups in ownership groups

When using ownership groups to fence off volumes/vdisks and the associated hosts and mappings there's currently no support for volume groups which are in turn required to use policy-based replication for such vdisks. As we want to replicate vdisks...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Monitoring FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize with Prometheus and Grafana

An increasing number of our clients is using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor their infrastructure. For Spectrum Virtualize-based storage only the following exporter is available on GitHub: https://github.com/IBM/spectrum-virtualize-exporter Ther...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Allow user access to remote copy relationships to be restricted by ownership groups

There is the concept of ownership groups in the Spectrum Virtualize code which allows the system administrator to restrict access to users to only those objects that are defined within that ownership group. There is a list of objects to which acce...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Increase number of SVC Partnerships

Increase the maximum number of SVC partnerships (current max is 4)
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release