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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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DISA STIG - SSH Login Attempts Before Resetting the Interface

IBM is working with the United States Air Force as a Sponsor to have the the FS7200 and FS5030 be added to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Approved Products List. The approved products list ensures that all findings for a Security Te...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Increase number of Host mappings

More than 20.000 host mappings per cluster are required.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC to FS9200 NDVM (Non-Disruptive Volume Move)

At GTS, we have a strategy to deploy FS9200s in their respective islands. We are not deploying FS9200s with front-ended SVCs. The SVC instances exist in tens of thousands in the field. Most of the times the migration requires outage for a server d...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize GUI doesn't retain a sufficient amount of performance data

The on-box performance monitor for Spectrum Virtualize only maintains 5 minutes worth of performance data. Since performance tests or issues can last longer than 5 minutes, this limits the ability to do instant analysis. Additionally, there can be...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Add Cluster Definition to SVC for grouping hosts and managing SCSI ID

Ability to create a 'cluster' of hosts in SVC and map a lun to the cluster. SVC would then manage SCSI IDs for all the hosts defined for the 'cluster'.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SFP Tx/Rx values at SpecV/Storwize UI

For each Port in an SpecV or Backend Storage System like FS or Storwize it schould be visible which Tx/Rx Values the SFP has. At the moment these values are only visible for the IBM support and it takes a while to determine this as a source for an...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Display/edit Storage pool property

Currently the new SVC GUI doesn't offer any way to display or edit the pool properties. We would like to have the ability to change some of the pools attributes via the new GUI. The following attributes should be included:- Easy Tier - Capacity wa...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

EasyTier Behavior is not transparent enough

EasyTier behavior and optimal configurations are not explained very well and you cannot see EasyTier in action live from the GUI or CLI. This makes it difficult to understand
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize lacks node awareness

There is no intelligence around node restarts. If the other node in an IOgrp is restarting to recover for aforementioned error the Storwize will not wait for the restart to complete and carelessly restarts the secondary node before the first is fi...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Automatic Quorum Selection isn't intelligent enough

If using automatic quorum selection it would be beneficial for the quorum drives to automatically be assigned across multiple controllers/back-end devices if available. This will help if someone forgets to update quorum drivers when an SVC gets a ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered