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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    3rd vdisk copy for volume migration

    The vdisk mirror function is great, but there are a couple of scenarios where two mirrored copies are actually not enough for many customers. Typically this is when customers mandate that there are ALWAYS two copies of a volume. The function does ...
    about 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

    SCSI Unmap support for Huawei OceanStor Dorado V5/6

    Our German customer is using a lot of Huawei Arrays with SVC and need support for UNMAP command for external Huawei OceanStor Dorado storage.It is a very big and valuable customer
    about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Log events when there are high numbers of CRC errors recorded on FC ports, low SFP power.

    Large amounts of crc errors or FC ports with low power will impact the ability to serve data to hosts. We had a very obscure issue recently that was caused by a san switch SFP that had low TX power. Deep in the logs of the storage, there were erro...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Additional parameter for repairvdiskcopy

    Additional parameter "-stoplba lba" for "repairvdiskcopy" command needed: -stoplba lba(Optional) Specifies the last logical block address (LBA) on which to finish the command. The LBA must be specified in hex, with a 0x prefix.
    almost 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    FlashSystem NAS

    Japanese VAD. I am afraid this is a simple question.Why is it that only IBM does not have a NAS that can be bought for about 1 to 2 million yen?FlashSystem's FCM is excellent as block storage.However, we are often told by our Japanese customers.In...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Increase number of extents per cluster

    Currently a system with extent size of 1 GiB does only support a managed capacity of 4 PiB. We need more scalability without using a larger extent size, e.g. managed capacity of 8 PiB with an extent size of 1 GiB.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    add SVC log message when volume mirror copies run out-of-sync

    Please add an informational log message to SVC when volume copies 0 and 1 get out-of-sync. Despite the two policies that can be set with the 'mirrorwritepriority' option it would be very helpful to notice problems in the back-end when volume copie...
    almost 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

    Automatic expand of a safeguarded copy child pool when it reaches the set threshold

    If a child pool fills to maximum the copies contained in the pool would go offline. it would be useful if we could set auto expand to the pool that could grow in increments, therefore lowing the risk of loosing immutable copies. This would be usef...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Default behavior of formatting a vdisk should be selectable

    Default behavior when creating or expanding a vdisk is to format the new capacity. Please allow the customer to customize at the cluster level whether the default is to format or not format.
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    checkMK . FlashSystem Plugin update

    Some of our customers use Checkmk as their monitoring tool instead of IBM Storage Insights. To ensure compatibility and optimal performance, it would be beneficial to update the current plugin to support the latest IBM Flash System Family.
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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