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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

Improve handling of Snapshot (hidden FCMap in stopping state) cleanup

Currently, there isn't much to indicate that a FlashSystem is having a hard time doing it's VolumeGroup Snapshot cleanup. If you look at the VG in the GUI, you'll see that the count of snapshots is greater than the number of snapshots that are act...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Track Thermal Throttling on Drives

We recently had a performance issue, that IBM support was able to track back to thermal throttling on a drive based on data from a Snap-4. Would it be possible to track this information in events so that we could have an insight into how frequentl...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Software Encryption of the Decryptioin key, stored on the USB Drives

Currently, one way of storing the decryption key is on USB drives. I know there are many encryption keys involved but the decryption process starts from that key on the USB drive if we have chosen this method. StorV stores the key unprotected on t...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

To get support for NVMeTCP on the iWARP adapters on the FS9500 platform

We exploring IBM 9500 for NVMeTCP on the FS9500 platform where its been advised by IBM development team that flash system running on iWARP adapters not certified and compatible. 1) Would like to understand whether this is limitation of hardware or...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Customer requesting support of TOTP/SAML

So we will be moving to Ping, the date is still TBD. That said yes that will be of interest to us when we implement Ping.. But the gap on SSH access will still be a concern. As far as other products that do this. Cohesity has pretty extensive supp...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Improve how to change volume population rate

If the rate for a volume population should get changed (default 2 MB/s) it is required at first to display the "populating_mapping_id" using "lsvolumepopulation -showhidden". Then this "populating_mapping_id" must be used with the command "chfcmap...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Reintroduce the option in the GUI – Modify Mirror Sync Rate

A few days ago, I had a customer complaining about slow mirror synchronization performance.He even went as far as threatening to return two FlashSystem 7300 units because of the perceived sync speed issue.He was only convinced that there was no st...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

CCU Checker enhancement

Enhance the blocking feature of CCU Checker so that it can distinctly handle update errors when there is a risk of severe impact to hosts and volumes. Handle errors with methods that prevent any circumvention without IBM second level approval.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Reintroduce NVMe/FC Connectivity Support in IBM Block Storage CSI Driver

The IBM Block Storage CSI driver previously supported NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) connectivity, however, this support was discontinued in newer versions of the driver. NVMe/FC is a critical protocol for clients running latency-sensitive work...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review