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V7k Should Not Keep Bothering Users to Add Systems to Storage Insights if the Systems are Already Managed in Storage Insights

Our V7000 devices which we already manage in Storage Insights keep popping up Suggested Tasks and mentioning on the Support Package page that we should look into starting managing the devices in Storage Insights. We have seen this at 7.8 and 8.3 c...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Show Serial Numbers not Cluster IDs in Resources Overview

Resources -> Block Storage Systems, column "Serial Number": For IBM Storwize systems, cluster IDs are listed instead of serial numbers. No-one identifies a storage system by it's cluster ID. It would be much better to show the S/N of the contro...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

HTTP REST API for TS4500

TS4500 supports RESTful API available only by RoS (REST over SCSI). The itdt (IBM Tape Diagnostic) Tool on nodes which have access to the tape drive can access this RESTful API.It would be much more convenient (and state of the art) if the TS4500 ...
about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Delivered

Mask offline WWPNs in order to better monitor host status

In our AIX virtualized (NPIV) environment we've zoned all systems (lpars) with extra WWPN's that are used for lpar mobility. These WWPN's are not visible in the SAN for most of the time, but they are defined at the SVC level offcourse. This causes...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Need the semi promised disk drive upgrade utility for Storwize V7000

I am in ATS and am regularly being asked when we will have an automated way to upgrade all drive firmware on the SWV7K. We have customers run the upgradetest utility prior to doing software upgrades and it warns that drive firmware is not current ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Secure wipe for drives (when decommissioning storage)

There is no functionality available in the Storwize line of storage systems which allows an admin to securely erase a drive in an enclosure (the DS8xxx line has SDO for this.) AIX has a diag tool which does it, but it only works on locally-attache...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Give sysadmin insight into the inner workings of the NSD server machinery, in particular the queue dynamics

Enhance mmdiag to provide visibility into NSD queues. Right now, the only way to look at the threads and queues on an NSD server is "mmfsadm dump NSD" - and this command will either hang or result in a server crash. This information is critical to...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

vdisk_protection with Spectrum Protect Snapshot

The vdisk_protection_time and vdisk_protection_enabled, are two parameters provided in Spectrum Virtualize and Storwize to prevent accidental deletion and unmapping of a vdisk. Unfortunately, this vdisk_protection function is unusable if any autom...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Allow IBM support to modify the RAID Parity Scrub rate. This would be used in potential data loss situations.

I want to have the option to speed up the "RAID Parity Scrub rate, built into and available in the code. I envision it as something only IBM could enable, but also not opposed to having it be available, and perhaps just not advertised to the gener...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Extend readReplicaPolicy and "failure group" to nodes, to help localize reads in a stretched cluster.

With a 2-site "stretched cluster", readReplicaPolicy can be used to choose which replica is used for reading, except... our options don't really handle complex network topologies. The "fastest" setting is often not a good choice because network la...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

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