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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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 ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

If there is a broken or offline canister, make it easier for the offline canister to rejoin the good canister after the offline canister is replaced

Customer had a canister that was replaced. The new canister would not boot. Support had to work with the admin to run the chbootdrive command to update the serial number to the new canister to get things fully working. The request is for an enhanc...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & CLI encryption command

Display information about encryption technology used in GUI & in CLI encryption command - which will help customer's cybersecurity team - requested by customer. Check this thread in slack # specv-sme-se = https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com/...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Error/warning on degraded hosts

Currently when a host is in degraded state, the events are not showing any warning or error. Hence there is a chance that these degraded hosts goes unnoticed. So I suggest to have a warning/error to be reported in the events for any host went into...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Event log enhancements

Enhanced monitor of internal process and better detail on issues. Lack of reporting on critical internal components hinders determination of issues and recovery.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC - Cron Backup control over scheduling

SVC Cron backup runs at the same time but collides with other workload processes. Would like to be able to update the backup to a better time frame within out envrionment to reduce impact and ensure backup failures do not occur as we have seem
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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...
almost 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.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Allow for import of Wildcard Certificate on FS5200 for securing WebUI

Currently on the FS5200, you have to create a certificate request and then upload the certificate generated from the request in order to secure the WebUI on the FS5200. We use Wildcard Certificates so that we don't have to order a new cert for eac...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under 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.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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