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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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One hot-spare node for multiple SVC clusters

Some of the customers have multiple SVC clusters, but all the nodes are located at the same two sites. It would be a great enhancement if the hot-spare node would not be bound to one specific cluster but could be bound to multiple clusters. With t...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Allow to expand the size of volumes in a Flashcopy mapping

Currently it is not allowed to expand the size of a volume which is part of a flashcopy mapping. This restriction should be removed.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Update OpenSSH in the SpecV / FlashSystem firmware to allow the sftp protocol instead of scp

Our managment servers are based on RHEL. Which will be upgraded to RHEL9 soon. With RHEL9 the standard scp is depreciated.. (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/openssh-scp-deprecation-rhel-9-what-you-need-know) With updating the openssh version within...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Remote Support Disconnect button

In the Support Assistance screen on FlashSystem our customer would like to have a disconnect button. We understand we can do this with the command line but the customer feels a button to disconnect in the GUI would be more helpful. On a call with ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

NVMeoF vVol Protocol Endpoints support is missing.

As of now (8.6.3.0) there is only support for SCSI PE's in a VMware/vVol environment. So, VMFS volumes work fine with End-to-End NVMeoF from host to storage, vVol does not.To use vVols (which is a perfect match with NVMeoF) i need to create duplic...
about 1 year 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Increase the number of nodes in a Storwize cluster

Increase the number of nodes in the Storwize cluster. Users want an SVC cluster to have 16-32 nodes.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

1620 callhome event

1620 mdisk group offline did not callhome due to event being and error 2 event.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration