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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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You are not warned of IOGrp Overload

Storwize will let you continue to add volumes to an overloaded IOgrp. There are no limits in this area which means you can add more work to an already stressed IOGRP. There is no balance either meaning one IOgrp can be over loaded while other IOgr...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

If there is a broken or offline canister, make it easier for the offline canister to rejoin the good canister after the offline canister is replaced

Customer had a canister that was replaced. The new canister would not boot. Support had to work with the admin to run the chbootdrive command to update the serial number to the new canister to get things fully working. The request is for an enhanc...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Support for VMID

Increases Visibility of VM traffic: VM-ID tags can be used by the Hypervisor and FC switches to understand the data flowing acrossits environment to better monitor outages or determining heavier traffic at different points along the path to help m...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

User set replication bandwidth allocation per IO group

Today SVC allocate a equal share of the partnership bandwidth to all IOGRP in a cluster.This RFE is to allow a user to set a different share (percent) of the overall bandwidth to different IOGRP
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Uptime command

a "uptime" command that shows system uptime - perhaps lssystemuptime, if possible with several options to show uptime for nodes / drives / ports and other components
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & CLI encryption command

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & in CLI encryption command - which will help customer's cybersecurity team - requested by customer. Check this thread in slack # specv-sme-se = https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com/...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC stretch cluster volume select preffered node

When creating a new SVC stretch cluster volume, the site location (or the preferred node ID) cannot be selected. Also, it cannot be set until after the format of the volume is done. But can be changed at a later time using movevdisk.We need a func...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC stretched cluster learning Easy Tier heatmap on secondf copy of Vdisk mirror

Easy Tier considers each pool separately, without knowledge about mirrored VDisks. In a stretched cluster with full site awareness and host failover cluster as application, the pool in the production site (where the host failover cluster lives mos...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Logging and audit of svcinfo commands

My customer tested the remote support for their new FS9200 that they are deploying in their datacenter and they wanted to make sure that the commands executed by remote support when accessing the FS9200 via remotesupport proxy were being logged an...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Bug in Storwize 8.1.3.5 - Object Type 'emailuser' expects 0 objects

When attempting to prepare the 'svc.config.recover.sh' script, the task fails as the system finds 2 objects set of type 'emailuser' (e.g. 1. the default IBM call home email address and 2. the local customer email address). The extract below shows ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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