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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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103 VOTE

Increase maximal synchronization rate for VDisk-Mirror relationships

Can you please increase the maximal possible synchronization rate at VDisk-Mirror relationships to a higher value than the currently max. possible value of 64MBps per VDisk ?
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Monitoring of host latency during Global Mirror for Spectrum Virtualize

Customers use GM when there is a requirement to maintain an aggressive RPO. However during GM there could be instances when the quality of link between DC & DR can deteriorate due to packet losses or high latency which could be a temporary phe...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Snapshot and volume management improvements

A recent sale to a non-IBM customer has shown just how poor our basic management capabilities are within the GUI.We were compared to their 5 year old Nimble array and we did not stand up well. Snapshot scheduling; Simple snapshots that are created...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Add support for reverse flashcopy with HyperSwap volumes

Currently a reverse flashcopy (restore) is not supported to a HyperSwap volume. The request is to be able to do a restore of a flashcopy to a hyperswap volume.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered
107 VOTE

Multi-Tenant management support inside Spectrum Virtualize (SVC)

SVC supports Delegation of Control (Role Based computing) of Functions, but not of Data/Objects. A user in a certain role, can work with all Objects, also those created by other users. This RFE request the introduction of additional functionality ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

make environmental stats available in SVC nodes

For a while now, Storwize and FlashSystem controllers support environmental statistics like watts used and temperature, which can be queried by 'lsenclosurestats'. Funnily, no recent SVC generation supports this command, ie SV1/2/3 and SA2. Many c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Allow monitor role to execute cpdumps command

To pull performance stats from non config nodes the cpdumps command is used. Unfortunately users in the Monitor group are not authorized to run this command. The resulting error is "CMMVC6253E The task has failed because the user's role is not aut...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Delivered

Builtin scheduler for creating Spectrum Virtualize snapshots

Customer had a competitor's array which has a builtin scheduler for creating snapshots. He is requesting same functionality. We have SPP to address some requirements but not all, for e.g. file and print volumes which are really large
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

SCSI Unmap support Hitachi Data Systems VSP Series

We are reqeusting the support of the SCSI Unmap command for Hitachi Data Systems VSP Series on Spectrum Virtualize systems.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Different email sender and contact email address for Spec V products

To have different email sender and customer contact email address in the callhome settings.(this is possible in FlashSystem A9000/R - but not in SpecV products)
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered