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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Multifactor Authentication (MFA) support for RSA SecurID

Many large, heavily regulated enterprises require multifactor authentication (MFA) on mission critical technology assets. One of the most popular on-prem MFA solutions is RSA SercurID. RSA is supported on the IBM enterprise DS8k storage product, i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Instructions are not given for how to start IP Quorum on Boot

Stretched (enhanced and HyperSwap) Spec Virt environments, as well as clustered Storwize devices, require an IP Quorum. AIX, Linux, and Windows are supported for this function. However, writing the appropriate startup scripts or service files are ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Enable automatic upload of log files / snaps when a Call Home is triggered and case created

Like Spectrum Scale has this option Event-based uploads: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-scale/5.1.0?topic=upload-event-based-uploads , can a similar option be created in Spectrum Virtualize so when a Call Home is triggered and a case is open...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Encryption Recovery Key Capability for FS9200

Client (Alex Offord) requests an emergency recovery key capability in the event all SKLM servers are unavailable. This capability cannot be USB Based. They wish the capability to be similar to what is provided on DS8K
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Enabling and Disabling the Hash Algorithm at FLASH ARRAY.

Currently IBM added SHA256 & SHA3-256 to the list of hashing algorithms for iSCSI host connectivity. But IBM prohibit MD5 and SHA1 for iSCSI host attach although we implement higher algorithms that meet their requirements. As a customer (Fidel...
10 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Capacity-less child pools to use for QoS

Allows the use of QoS settings for pools of volumes to be different than other pools of volumes. This could be used for prod vs non-prod, or broken up by different business units for a customer.
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

IBM Storage Virtualize Plugin for vSphere features missing

The VMware plugin for Flash Systems missing the following operations which are publish in :https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248505.pdf - IBM FlashSystem and VMware Implementation and Best Practices Guide - Marking the hosts as flash I...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

FS9500 - inbound CHAP where we can manipulate the secret per host bases

ISCSI- Mutual Chap authentication Inbound: We see option to set system wide chap secret authentication for ISCIS attached hosts. Currently IBM offering System wide chap (being configured via chsystem CLI) is used for two way chap authentication wh...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

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

FlashSystem Refresh without host-side intervention

refresh an FS device to a new FS without requiring any server commands/intervention. This would supply a process to handle an FS device refresh where 100% of the activity is done at the Storage level only, preserving all of the following configura...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release