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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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

Flashsystem should use multiple CPU cores to process I/O per Volume instead of just one core per Volume

Layer 3 Communications (Customer) was experiencing low performance/high latency issues on their FlashSystem 5030 on a large Volume. IBM Support was engaged and the SME told them that this is because the FlashSystem is designed to utilize only one ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 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...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Global Mirror with Change Volume --> dynamic increase

Protection against Cyber attack --> SGC installation requires a Remote Copy relation to a third FlashSystem. GM with CV is one of the options to avoid impact to the primary storage. The connected AIX VIO hosts need an easy way to increase volum...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

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

Storage System Support for Port-Channel on FC Connections

Need ALL storage devices to support Port-Channeling of Storage ports with Cisco Switches
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Ingress Rate Limiting for Storage Devices on Fibre Channel

Need ALL storage devices to support ingress rate limiting with FC connections.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under 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

Name string for rc relationships

When creating a rc relationship, we are limited with the parameter -name thath can't exceed 15 caracters.That's a problem.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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