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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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FS9200 FQDN Support in GUI for NTP, LDAP

Client (Alex Offord) wishes for the GUI to properly support the FQDN support that is provided for LDAP and NTP.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

FS9000 - FQDN Support for SKLM, SNMP, Email Relay, Syslog

Client (Alex Offord) wishes for GUI and DSCLI to support additional FQDN items including SNMP, Email Relay, SKLM, Syslog, and any others he has failed to mention.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC Support for Windows NTP Service

Currently SVC and V7000 is not compatible with NTP-service provided by windows-operatingsystem (windows server 2008 R2). Requested feature should support the NTP service of Windows. BTW, DS8000 and Brocade SAN switches supports this already.
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Storwize - Increased information on lsrcrelationship

During DR testing and other tasks we are often asked to manipulate remote relationships to either failover or stop as a backout point. At present when we do this work the lsrcrelationship command only provides the status of idling when the replica...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Allow Admins to run lshardware, lsservicestatus, and lsportstats commands

At Citi they valut the superuser password and can only check it out of vault with a change record or trouble ticket. Having the ability to have storage admins run the above commands will simplify reporting and troubleshooting. They need to be able...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Host and Volume Groups

Allow the creation of host and volumes groups.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

SVC fragmentation

It has been noticed that flashcopy operations on space efficient volumes tend to produce a copy that is slower to read in sequential manner. This affects backup times. By creating another mirrored copy of flashcopy target vdisk, layout becomes mor...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC Remote Support Access (SYS4939)

IBM GTS SO requests STG to enable newest model of SVC hardware to inclued remote support access capability
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Request to add more timezones to storwize gui dropdown selection

Customer was unable to set correct timezone using the storwize GUI. Only 28 TZs available in the GUI and Gulf States like Dubai and Abu Dhabi are not in the list. Correct TZ is available via CLI so the GUI either needs to offer these as an option ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Health Check Script or program

a health check script or program to run against the SVC and generate a report which has predetermined thresholds for hardware and software errors which is reported on and can be reviewed locally to determine if issues are repeating or growing
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered