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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Allow longer names for flash copy related items.

Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect when using FCM and SVC: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controlle...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Warning when deleting volumes they still have snapshots associated with them.

Within the FlashSystem OS, when you delete a volume, the volume does not go away and remains in the system if there is a snapshot(s) associated with it. The OS does not tell you that it cannot delete, but simply places the volume in a delete(ing) ...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Improve alerting when "Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working

We have noticed that “Call home using Cloud Services” randomly stops working our 9500 arrays causing gaps in our performance data. This has happened before on our arrays and there is no alerting that tells us, either on the array, or within Storag...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Remove -force option from stopsystem command when issued via the GUI (or make it optional)

When using the GUI (node actions -> power off) to power off a specific SVC node (eg a hardware repair action) the -force option is used in the command svctask stopsystem -force -gui -node x This bypasses the checks for volumes going offline or ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

How to gracefully stop the IP quorum application on host

Customer raised question :" how to gracefully stop the quorum application and shut that RHEL server down." Presently , we don't have stop command - hence we have to be dependent on host shutdown It will be good idea to add this new functionality "...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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

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 host_unmap option in the auto config wizard

In case we have Flash system behind SVC storage and we are running the wizard of auto config for virtualization - it is important also to add option to configure host_unmap.since by default the wizard does not change the default value.host_unmap o...
5 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