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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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

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

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

Improved reporting to support daily operations

Customers have requested a better way to report and manage space within a pool. The example given was:It is very difficult to work out how much space a snapshot or a series of snapshots are consuming in a pool with IBM storage, other vendors make ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Consistent VDisk copy protection during ESC Incremental Resynch and/or Volume Migration

During volume migration and volume copy incremental synchronization in stretch cluster configurations, until the second copy is consistent again, the loss of the primary site will command restoring data from tape backup into the second site capaci...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

V7000 QOS function to prioritize workload

The V7000 QOS function (I/O Governing) can limit the I/O's on a LUN. We need a functionality as I/O Priority Manager on DS8870 that can prioritize the I/O's on a LUN. Can we get this kind of function on the V7000?
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Allow user to append a comment svctask commands

This is to allow user to optional add a comment to svctask command in order to provide an indication or refer to a change number when making changes to Spectrum Virtualise.This would also be captured in the audit log.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Save failed commands ran on cluster to be viewed in audit logs with output in Blue Diamond

* SME Martin Dzhagarov suggested this , so creating this RFE * - Where were supposed to look for failed commands.This is Blue Diamond and I don't think that it show up in the audit log- Failed commands do not show up in the Audit log. Can the cust...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize VSS provider has to support Hyperswap configurations

There are currently limitations in the VSS HW provider used with IBM Flashsystem 9100 in Hyperswap configuration. This prevents Spectrum Protect Snapshot from supporting these configurations.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

PDU Power Cord for 92F too short for CMA

The two 2.8m PDU power cords for the 92F high density expansion are too short for the cable management arm it is supplied with. The power cords avialable for the 92F in econfig should be longer to allow the cable management arm to be extended, con...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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