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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...

IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Need support for Microsoft Authenticator as MFA

Microsoft's MFA is a very popular MFA and with Microsoft's solution compassing all enterprise needs, even MFA capability are being adopted as standard in large clients. Hence this integration is being asked from 18 months. Please consider it on pr...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Under review

Ability to modify or add a fcport of a host that is in a partition.

Assuming PBHA and\or PBR: It may happen that a FC HBA of a host is replaced or that a HBA is redeployed. Or a host has already been created with 1 FC port. In these situations it is not possible to adjust this.
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Allow "modify volume capacity" of a volume in a volume group with PBR applied

For the moment, it is not possible to modify (in our case extend) a volume which is in a volume group where a replication policy is applied. This has a huge impact if we simply want to extend a volume (to increase a datastore capaciy for example)....
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Increase limits for hosts and host ports per SVC IO-group / per system

Can IBM increase for SVC clusters following v8.6.x limitations ? 1. Fibre Channel hosts per system 2. Fibre Channel hosts per I/O group 3. Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group 4. Number of Host mappable Volumes 5. Number of supported logins per ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

PBHA/R: increase total vol capacity

There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of the replicated volumes (hidden volumes - change volumes - don't count towards this figure). Limit is reached in this 3-sit...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Policy Based Replication Allow rename of volumes into a volume group with replication policy assigned

We sometime need to rename a volume because it makes things cleared when you want to add other volumes or other vlume groups. For the moment, as soon as a policy is applied, the rename of a volume inside a volume group is not possible. Could you p...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

The run fix procedure schould check for all equal errors in one step

ease of use, faster checks. If we update the backend systems behind a SVC or flash system the recovery procedure does a cleanup only for one item at a time, so if you updated a bunch of systems behind a SVC, you have a minimum of two events in the...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Show Capacity Savings Total Provisioned Line only for vDisk assigned to a host

On the FS or SVC Dashboard the total provision value is the value in all vDisk. If attached behind a SVC, there are normally provisioned but not assigned vDisk to fill up the entire space. That leads into a missunderstanding on the dashboard.
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

internal E-Mail client - add "sender address" and make authentication optional

with one of the recent major Versions, Storage Virtualize introduced a completetly new e-mail client, which is a great addition to the previous implementation. In the new client we can have a custom port and support for encryption. Also authentica...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

PBHA/R limit: how much in use?

There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. It is not easy for a user to see how much can be added before that limit is reached . Can we provide this in GUI (or CLI). This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review