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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Provide a UUID for each object that is replicated across multiple clusters (e.g. in PBHA / PBR / Flashgrid Configurations)

    Objects such as volume groups or hosts that are being replicated in a PBR/PBHA config exist as individual objects with local IDs on each FlashSystem Cluster, although they actually are considered as unique objects in a cluster-overarching context....
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem enhanced scheduling

    Customers like to schedule Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem with a daytime granularity. For example, they like to schedule some copies only during working hours or working days.The copies' refresh counting must be based only on the hours/days ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    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 ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage 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...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 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 Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

    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.
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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...
    about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Increase number of SVC Partnerships

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

    Add ability to extend the expiration date/time of a stand alone snapshot, possibly by adding option to chsnapshot command

    We create snapshots of single volumes that are not part of a volume group and not associated with a snapshot policy. Here is an example: addsnapshot -volumes my_volume1 -ignorelegacy -retentiondays 3 Today, if we need to keep the snapshot beyond t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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