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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Use Storwize disk systems as SVC/Storwize IP quorum instance

Can you enable Storwize disk systems to act as quorum IP instance - as additional optional solution how to create an IP quorum ?Use the standard IP management of the Storwize systems to connect to the related SVC- or Storwize HyperSwap clusters.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

More flexible cache options on Storwize

The caching algorithm does not have enough flexibility in assigning cache to storage pools. I would like to see selectable options: 1) Current (equal percent across storage pools) 2) Percentage based on amount of storage in the storage pool vs ove...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize Upgrade Utility is not aware of invalid multipathing configrations before upgrade

The SVC/Storwize/Virtualize Upgrade Utility does not check to see if proper multipathing is in place before code upgrades. This is a massive effort and could be done from the storage side by checking the number of host facing paths seen by the dev...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC Does not warn of logical path loss to hosts

SVC Logical Path Loss. The Storage Admins are not aware of a SVC Logical Path loss. The Storage Admin is reactive when this happens due to not being alerted of the issue. Unable to be proactive and when server losses sight of storage. If Storage i...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Migrateexts - Spectrum Virtualize documents mistake

Due to description of command migrateexts in documentation there is no mention that in case of extant migration to unmanaged disks this operation lead to fail down system with all nodes restarting to T2 recovery. This issue was solved only at 8.3....
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

Safegard Copy functionality running on FS5015/5035

There are many small/medium companies in Japan. If the Safegard Copy function works with FS5015/5035, I believe I can aggressively propose it to small and medium-sized companies.
over 2 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.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

FlashSystem Single Pool spanning multiple controllers data placement

Requesting an option on a storage pool spanning multiple control enclosures for extents for each volume to be placed on the mdisks local to the access control enclosure/io group
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Global Mirror has too many tuneables and most real-world deployments require tuning

Product: Virtualize Products Description: GM and MM tuneables should be reduced in number and complexity. For example: The product could calculate the bandwidth requirements for a GM relationship based on the IO load on a system and either a user-...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

VDisk Mirror monitoring events

Customer is requesting the addition of events for situations when SVC cannot update a vdiskcopy of a mirrored vdisk anymore. Furthermore TPC should capture and ad a constraint for those events, so that an admin can look at a constraint violation r...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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