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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Option to expand past 24 Flash Core Modules with NVMe expansion enclosure

In GTS we have set a All Flash strategy and need the option to expand past the 24 Flash Core Modules to provide high performance Flash with FCM HW compression to give a larger capacity when using the smaller 4.8TB and 9.6 TB FCM.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Increased number of concurrent SSH connections and allow us to manage open ssh connections

Allow an increased number of available ssh sessions into an SVC and allow us to terminate or timeout hung or idle connections.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Management IP issues in a Stretched SVC cluster

If the system is in a Enhanced Stretched Cluster or a HyperSwap configuration, an option to have all inbound and outboud Ethernet traffic (management, call home, etc) flow from Ethernet Port 2 should the control node be on site 2. This would allow...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC vSphere Plug-in supporting vdisk mirror

The vSpehere Plug-in for VMware should be enhance so that the admin using the plug-in will be able t specify more detailed properties when creating a vdisk on SVC. Especially the definition of vdisk mirroring is important because we use SVC Split ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

SVC GMCV single shot mode

Currently the Global Mirror with Change Volumes is designed to be a continuous replication technology.Customer have brought up the suggestion that the underlying implementation could actually also be used for Snapshot based backups that will be tr...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Automatically clear errors, and send alarm clear trap, for self healing errors

The svc code sends snmp traps when an event or an error occurs. To make error handling easier, it would be nice to get the svc to clear selffixed issues. A trap that states that the error has been automatically resolved should be sendt to the trap...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

SVC GUI Storage pool Capacity Reporting

IBM SVC GUI capacity report of safeguarded storage pool used capacity is based on total - Free capacity. This doesn't align with CLI lsmdiskgrp accurately. Request is to have exact match of capacity numbers such as USED, REAL and Total capacity in...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Excluded port issue for EMC VNX storage behind SVC

The customer has 8 SVC clusters with 8 nodes on their environment. They have many different type of storages produced by different vendors. They have faced with a problem only between SVC and EMC VNX midrange storage. When a drive streams soft med...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Storwize to allow CSV export of volume list from UI

Some of the screens in the Storwize UI allow the contents to be downloaded into a CSV file. Not all screens do. This should be a consistent feature on all screens.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

SVC to allow more than 4 remote partnerships

In current situation an SVC cluster can only have 3 Remote Copy partnerships. Proposed resolution: Enlarge the number of RC partnerships Business impact: RC connection between more than 4 SVCs
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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