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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Present option for high performance Volume Group Snapshots

IBM i workloads and Epic Cache/Iris each have blueprints and best practices to use 64KB grain sizes for Thin Provisioned volumes and FlashCopy grain sizes. This is done with traditional FlashCopy and mkvdisk commands through the CLI. There are no ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Accepting STARTTLS 250 Command without "Hyphen"

In an Flashsystem 7200 - 2076 with Firmware 8.5.0.5 we can not send TLS1.2 Emails because the STARTTLS 250 command required a "STATTLS-250" and downs't work with "STATTLS 250" so it doesn*t work without an Hyphen.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Allow Admins to run lshardware, lsservicestatus, and lsportstats commands

At Citi they valut the superuser password and can only check it out of vault with a change record or trouble ticket. Having the ability to have storage admins run the above commands will simplify reporting and troubleshooting. They need to be able...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud (SV4PC) - AWS GP3 support

client (BP) have moved AWS GP2 to GP3 since GP3 was introduced DEC 2020. GP3 are 20% lower costs per GB month than GP2 and provide 3000 IOPS v's 100 at GP2. This makes GP3 now the default choice for our AWS client. Even with SV4PC data reduction ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

misleading flashcopy status of change-volume in hyperswap cluster

In support we receive questions/concerns of customers on a regular base asking/complaining about the "stopped" status of change-volumes. This status is WAD after loss of synchronization btween the sites and resync of the hyperswap volumes. On the ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

make environmental stats available in SVC nodes

For a while now, Storwize and FlashSystem controllers support environmental statistics like watts used and temperature, which can be queried by 'lsenclosurestats'. Funnily, no recent SVC generation supports this command, ie SV1/2/3 and SA2. Many c...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

HyperSwap and enhanced stretch cluster support with SGC in SCDM

To get application consistent (!) SGC in a high-available setup (FS or SVC), we need CDM to support such. Right now, CDM support HA without SGC!
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Increase the safeguarded copy memory size

Hi, Now Safeguarded copy limit is 2048Mb per IO group. The flashcopies require 1MB of memory for every 2TB of source volume capacity. I have 120 TB data and I need to use 128 retention, 2048 of memory is not enough. Copy limit for IO group must in...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Performance Data Change

On version 8.5.2 and newer, there is a change to the internal performance XML statistics file. Some third party tools that parse the iostats XML files will need to be updated.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Improve filter functionality on remote copy GUI screen for 8.4 and up to match capabilities which are available in code stream 8.3

Up until SVC code 8.3.x there are extensive filtering capabilities on the remote copy GUI screen. this filter also searches the remote copy groups for matching patterns and shows the matching entries including the remote copy consistency group nam...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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