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Nommage des snapshots via le GUI

Par l'interface graphique, on ne peut pas nommer les snap comme on le veut, qd on clique sur take snapshot au niveau d'un volume groupe, cela devrait proposer d'entrer un nom
22 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Request for Modification of Reserved VLAN 4091 provisioning, in Fusion HCI

Currently VLAN 4091 is reserved and used by default by the product for internal communications, for provisioning and that’s ok. The problem starts when you have more than one Fusion HCI rack in the same cluster, so you have to extend 4091 to all i...
25 days ago in Storage Fusion Under review

Differentiate FDMI-discovered hosts from storage-connected hosts in FlashSystem Host Management

Starting with FlashSystem 9.1.2, hosts discovered through FDMI information available in the SAN fabric are displayed within Host Management, even when they do not have effective connectivity to the storage system. While this behavior is expected a...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

DS8A hardware support for a 3-way Copy relation

Note: This case describes the need within a MGM4 solution, but could apply to certain setup in other 3-4-6 site solutions as well. We are in the progress of moving to a MGM4 solution with copy relation A-B-C-D. A C| / |B D In current design we can...
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

DS8A hardware support for a Copy target to be the source for multi target copy relation

Note: This case describes the need within a MGM4 solution, but could apply to certain setup in other 3-4-6 site solutions as well. We are in the progress of moving to a MGM4 solution with copy relation A-B-C-D. A C| / |B D In current design we can...
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

Support Assistant - Remote Support - Automatic Token re-generation

Be able to set an automatic time for re-generating the support assistant token
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

chsra command should enforce minimum time out Vs Optional

Allow customer to define a hard limit for idle time out Vs being optional and relying on an engineer to set the appropriate time out for each session that is opened.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Updating MI Write-Protect Mode

Enable the ability to do a copy to clusters when adding excluded categories when setting up Write-Protect mode. This would make it easier for the cluster to setup instead of having to go cluster by cluster. This is especially important when you ha...
about 1 month ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library Under review

Implement support for the Unmap function "Write Same" on DS8000

Any client who has Host system's that supports the use of the Write Same Unmap function would benefit from having this function available on DS8K. By having it. It would allow the client to reclaim previously used space within the DS8K. IBM's SVC ...
about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 Under review

Vates hypervisor support

Vates is a VMware alternative based on a Xen server fork. This Hypervisor is regulary proposed like an altenative at VMware. French market is open to leave VMware but with supported storage solution.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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