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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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DOD Certified Erasure tools

Would like a new tab under the settings for Erasure of pools / arrays that is DOD certified for use in Federal space and adheres to a configurable wipe method and select-able features or configurable run times.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Add Cluster Definition to v9000 for grouping hosts or increase # of WWNs back to 512

Add Host Cluster Definition to v9000 for grouping hosts or increase # of WWNs per host for large clusters.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Allow GREP to work on the CLI

Allow the CLI to work with external tools like GREP without resorting to running it inside python or expect.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

RFE 95: Dedup on svc and v7000

Most of storage vendors at this time are able to dedup data on their storage array level, when we will be able to see the dedup running on the svc and v7000, ds8000...etc?
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Search field in all storwize / svc pop ups and pages, especially in vdisk mappings

provide a search and filter field (basic or with options) in each pop up and view field of the SVC / Storwize UI
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Manual resume of automated Spectrum Virtualize upgrade

Manual resume of automated Spectrum Virtualize upgrades. The automated upgrade procedure includes a 30 minute wait at the half-way point. This may not be enough time to verify systems have fully recovered.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add compression savings information to V7000 / SVC GUI

With the addition of 'Uncompressed Volume Size' to the RACE SDK version 1.88.7 and onwards, this information will be available through RACE API integrated into SVC/V7000 in environments using Real-time Compression capability. Since this informatio...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Azure support on Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud

Costco is moving their infrastructure into Azure public cloud. Current they have SVC clusters on-premise in prod. They are requesting Azure support on Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

LDAPS should use hostname not IP in Storwize products

When configuring LDAPS authentication in Storwize products one can only supply an IP address. First of all, this is against MS best practise. Second (and for the same reason), the default certificates on an MS domain controller set up for LDAPS do...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Add deduplication for storwize V7000

Deduplication would be a nice feature which would extend real time compression functionality
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered