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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Storwize tape target

Ability to enable tape target mode on Storwize.Today, VTL are very common and IBM has discontinued its Protectier solution. Now that Storwize can do compression and deduplication, we could technically add tape target mode code on Storwize and enab...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize FlashCopy bitmap with Spectrum Copy Data Management

When using Spectrum Virtualize in conjunction with IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management, if the flashcopy bitmap capacity fills, the Spectrum Virtualize instance will warmstart a node without warning. Spectrum Copy Data Management orchestrates the sc...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 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

Flexibility to connect SVC for Public CLoud to any Cloud Provider

In the SVC User Group, we had a conversation with Michelle. In working for the Federal Government, we have franchise customers who have a desire to decide their own Cloud provider, but then utilize us to provision and configure storage for them. W...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Flashsystem 7200 expansion enclosure NVME

The expansion enclosures of the flashsystem 7200 do not support NVME. All government agency procurement processes are requesting and we are taking a beating from Dell, Purestorage and Huawey. We need to fix this or we will no longer sell to govern...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Add 'fail-back to local' authentication for Remote Authentication users

Ideally, for Cyber-Security, all Spectrum Virtualize logins should be set up for Remote Authentication, with MFA (Security Verify/future ADFS?). And the Superuser account would be the only Local account, disabled per SGC Best Practices. However, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Functionality already exists

Capability for "superuser" to set default volume provisioning settings for all new volumes

Capability for "superuser" to set default volume provisioning settings for all new volumes, Disable 'Enable Warning Threshold" by setting it from 80 to 0. This prevents unneeded warning events "Space Efficient Virtual Disk Copy space warning" an...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Add / create a CLI command in order to remove permanent "inactive" entries from lsfabric

With situations in which client changes zoning, this also includes when they are implementing NPIV from just physical ports (transitional), it is common to have bad manipulation from the multipath driver over the host paths which causes previous p...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Collapse all option desired for GUI Volumes dialog

In the FlashSystem / Storage Virtualize GUI, the Volumes option lists three lines for every primary volume in a HyperSwap configuration. Each primary volume has a 'twistie' to close the secondary line items, but all volumes are expanded on dialog ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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.
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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