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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Support use of Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) in virtual mode in conjunction with the IBM FlashSystem SRA in VMware SRM

MSP wants to provide possiblity of this setup to one of their tenants.
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Increase the number of volumes that can be created in the Storewize from 512 to 1024

Increase the number of volumes that can be created in the Storewize from 512 to 1024
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

New combination in SSIC for storage 2145-DH8

We require new Host and storage combination to be tested as the same combination is not reflecting in SSIC.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Enclosure-loss protection on Storwize V7000

Please implement contra-rotating SAS cabling for connections from Controller enclosure to drive enclosures. This gives additional failure protection and avoids enclosure interdependencies caused by "daisy-chain" connections. DS4000 / DS5000 custom...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Flashsystem should use multiple CPU cores to process I/O per Volume instead of just one core per Volume

Layer 3 Communications (Customer) was experiencing low performance/high latency issues on their FlashSystem 5030 on a large Volume. IBM Support was engaged and the SME told them that this is because the FlashSystem is designed to utilize only one ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Incorporate Azure MFA

The MFA feature in the Flashsystem series requires one to setup either an IBM or a Duo Security solution which is costly and redundant as most companies today have Azure MFA at their disposal. So it would be very nice if the Flashsystem in the fut...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

Global Mirror with Change Volume --> dynamic increase

Protection against Cyber attack --> SGC installation requires a Remote Copy relation to a third FlashSystem. GM with CV is one of the options to avoid impact to the primary storage. The connected AIX VIO hosts need an easy way to increase volum...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Add considerations for worklaods with large transfer sizes to Compresstimator

Clients rely on the results of the "compresstimator" tooling to understand whether volumes may be good candidates for Realtime Compression or not. This guidance is focused on the expected compression ratio. However, the performance of largely sequ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Migrate config node without reboot.

Currently the only way to move the config node, it to reboot nodes. This seems to be overkill. There are times that it would be handy to migrate the config node without rebooting nodes
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC and Storwize Machine Location field schould support special characters

In the GUI of the SVC / Storwize / FS systems (exception FS900) you can only use alphanumeric characters. Special characters are only possible on the command line. This should be adjusted on the GUI.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

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