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Search results: IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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SVC management GUI does not select the config node by default

When we open the SVC management GUI and go to the screen named “Download Support Package” (where we can view or create support logs), the GUI has pre-selected a view that shows a list of available files. Usually the SVC node that is selected for v...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Apply disk fw without specifying all disk Ids with comma separator

When applying disk fw we usually need to specify which drive Ids to be selected, separated with a comma i.e 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13instead it would be nice to only type a range of Ids 0-13
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Display/edit Storage pool property

Currently the new SVC GUI doesn't offer any way to display or edit the pool properties. We would like to have the ability to change some of the pools attributes via the new GUI. The following attributes should be included:- Easy Tier - Capacity wa...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Storage Target Selection for Comprestimator CLI and GUI

SPectrum Virtualize provides Comprestimator statistics on board the Spectrum Virtualize layer based on RACE algorithm. There e are other possible hardware / software compression targets (FS900, FS9100, ...) for which Comprestimator is available in...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize Automatic Quorum Selection isn't intelligent enough

If using automatic quorum selection it would be beneficial for the quorum drives to automatically be assigned across multiple controllers/back-end devices if available. This will help if someone forgets to update quorum drivers when an SVC gets a ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

SVC Enhanced Stretched Cluster - Hosts Site Awareness

SVC Enhanced Stretched Cluster provides site awareness to SVC Nodes and Storage Controllers, allowing an optimized IO routing and policing between the SVC Nodes and the back-end Storage arrays, however it lacks Site associations for Host objects. ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

DOD Certified Erasure tools

Would like a new tab under the settings for Erasure of pools / arrays that is DOD certified for use in Federal space and adheres to a configurable wipe method and select-able features or configurable run times.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

EasyTier pool - import of image mode with tier level designation

when migrating client environments in a newly deployed, EasyTier enabled environments, space restraints make an import of the existing client data impossible. a typical space proportion would be 10% flash, 30% enterprise and 60% nearline. When imp...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Compression for Virtualize is Selective

Virtualize/Storwize Compression is selective by nature; meaning that it will allow you to compress data which will cause performance impact despite being able to identify non-compressible data. This leads to many performance related impacts.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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