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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Prevent Harmful actions related to NPIV ports

For NPIV prevent going from transition to disabled or transition to enabled mode on iogroups . If there are servers/hosts with any paths to both physical and virtual WWPNs  This will cause an impact and possible outage.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Volume Format default to enabled

The volume format was default disabled till 7.5. Enabled is now the default and a 1TB volume can take 6 days to complete with the default syncrate. Changing the sync rate can reduce this to 4.5 hours. This can cause severe impacts to pre-existing ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

GMCV limit is 256 too small vs. GM 8192 , needs more GMCV at least 1024

Hello,we hit the Global Mirror with Change Volume limit. 256 is too small vs. Global Mirror 8192. We need more GMCV, at least 1024.regards, Gabor
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

GUI difference for creating. Readability degraded

When creating a new Remote copy relationship with consistency groups. We see a difference in the GUI how LUNs are listed.In v6.2.0.5 full names are displayed while in v6.3.0.4 the names are truncated making it not easy to read. Only on mouse-over ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

increase the number of Host Connections to more than 1024 per SVC IO Group

Increase the number of Host Connections to more than 256 per IO Group and 1024 per cluster
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Ability to non-disruptively expand SVC source Vdisks that are part of a GM copy set such that the target Vdisks also expand

Currently, with IBM SAN arrays, when volumes are part of a Global Mirror (GM) session, we need to cancel GM, expand the source volume, expand the target volume, then restart GM. We would like this to be fully automated and non-disruptive. This wou...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualise Transparent Cloud Tiering support for MS Azure

We have a clear opportunity to sell a client a pair of IBM FS9150s but the client would like TCT support for Azure to be on the Spectrum Virtualise roadmap
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Requesting V7000 to log valid and invalid logins to the system

Requesting V7000 to log valid and invalid logins to the system
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Volume Compressibility Data in Spectrum Virtualize GUI

Spectrum Virtualize GUI should provide ''compressibility'' data not only for compressed volumes but also for non compressed data using results from the embedded Comprestimator.This could be incrementally enhanced by providing incremental savings r...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Support Crypto Event Logging and enable Audit logs to be forwarded to the Syslog Server

Currently, V7000 do not generate any events for the security and crypto related activities (e.g.) encryption enabled, disabled, KeyServer deleted, Key is removed, Key is deleted, unable to retrieve keys from the KeyServer etc.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

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