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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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DRP support for compressed volumes with Enhanced Stretch Cluster

Currently due to latency considerations on an Enhanced Stretch Cluster (SVC) we are unable to leverage DRP and use compressed and/or deduplicated volumes. 8-node SV1 enhanced stretch cluster, FC connected with X6-8 Brocade core switches and data c...
about 4 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

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

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...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support for up to 8 IO Group Systems

Seeking support for up to 8 SVC IO groups, 16 nodes in total.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize: Enhance MCStore Connectivity/Capability

SVC's supports Cloud Object storage pools for FlashCopy Targets in 7.8. The current method for accessing cloud object storage is via the management port on the config node. This creates a problem with scalability. The request is to enhance this, p...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under 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 ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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

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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration