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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Allow V7000 monitoring using industry standard protocols

Allow monitoring of performance data using read-only credentials and industry standard tooling.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Fibre Port Control from GUI on FS900 AE2/AE3 and FS9150

Prudential is asking for the following, in regards to the FS900s, and FS9150s: "There should  be a distinction between, Offline (link failure), Inactive(admin Down), Online and SFP not present status. And user should have ability to change th...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

FICON support for SVC

Problem description: No ability to provision storage from SVC to MainframeCurrent workaround: None
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

No confidential information may be part of the storage snap transfered to support team.

Call Home SVC at level 7.6.1.5 The customer is a weapons company with very restrictive confidentiality rules. This company is requesting that, for Storage snaps transfers to support teams, no confidential information may be part of the transfer (l...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

extent mirroring rather than migrate within the context of EasyTier

Customer is requesting that the EasyTier functionality that currently migrates extents from spinning disk to SSD/Flash incorporate an extent mirror command instead.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Enable assignment of volume extents to a specific tier level within an easy tier hybrid pool

Can you enable that all extents of a specific volume can be assigned to a specific tier level within an easy tier hybrid pool configuration ? Example: hybrid pool contents of 3000 GB Flash Tier and 50000 GB Enterprise tier. Create new volume and a...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Request option for previous SVC GUI behavior to modify characteristics of volumes

Previously in SVC 7.5 code, the volume characteristics could be edited in the GUI from the properties menu of the volume. This was changed in 7.6 so that modifications (such as a cache mode change) were made available in the GUI in the actions men...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC Audit Log Only Viewable for Privileged User

Currently the audit log can be viewed/downloaded by a ‘monitor' level accountThe audit requirement is that this information should only be accessible by a privileged (admin) account or an auditor level account as per DS8000Applied to SVC and V7000
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC Configurable SNMP Alerts

Repeat SNMP alerts for errors not fixed within a given window should be configurable
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC Encryption Algorithm Not Shown in GUI/CLI

After enabling SVC software encryption and encrypting all storage pools a customer requested that we provide a proof of encryption including algorithm used to encrypt data at rest. To our surprise SVC does not show algorithm used for the encryptio...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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