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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

Snapshots on ChildPool

today you can only create snapshot-policy which makes the snapshots on the same pool the volume is already on. and in our scenario we are using Child-Pool for snapshots to prevent risks of cyber attacks when snapshots are filling the primery pool ...
19 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Throttle/QoS for Volume Groups

Hello, I would like to suggest an enhancement that could combine throttle and volume groups. Since we are moving to volume groups related to all aspects and is possible to define the RPO objective (of PBR) directly in the replication policy, one p...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Relaxing IP quorums placement dependency on the Ethernet ports where the service IP address assigned.

Currently, IP quorums for HyperSwap as well as Policy-Based HA configurations need to be connected to the systems' Ethernet port where the service IP address being assigned. This current design of placing IP quorums prohibits from having a secure ...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Enable IBM Block storage CSI driver to choose other than the default TCP port 22 when used with FlashSystem

Currently, IBM Block storage CSI driver interacts with FlashSystem devices via the default SSH port (TCP/22). Please provide a way to change the port usage. See the discussion on a Slack channel #get-help_CSi: https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add GUI option to view, select and modify mirror write priority of Volumes

Currently it is not possible to specify the mirror write priority parameter in the GUI during Volume Creation. The system allows two options for mirrored volumes: latency (which is the default) and redundancy. In some customer environments it is c...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Addition of reclaimable space on lsvdiskanalysis and/or GUI volume properties

With the avenue of reclaim_se utility to automatically reclaim capacity of thin vdisks part of standard pools, clients are starting to ask support at times regarding the reclaimable capacity on their volumes. The command lsvdiskanalysis, from clie...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add Last Access Time to GUI Table

While managing volumes, I often want to see how long it's been since a volume has last gotten an update. This can only be done from the CLI (lsvdisk | grep "last_access_time"); but it would be nice to be able to see it in the GUI.
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Check update recommendations against the configuration of the system before notifying the user

Today the GUI for a FlashSystem/SVC will notify a user of a new code release of Storage Virtualize, but it does not take the specific configuration of the machine into consideration. Before you actually do an upgrade, the tool called CCU checker i...
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review