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Initiate a SafeGuarded Copy from the GUI without using policies (currently only CLI)

Customer needs a way to initiate an adhoc SGC of a volume. This is currently only possible via CLI.
8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Ability to rename a snapshot from GUI (currently only CLI)

Customer uses this regularly and would like to be available via GUI, not just CLI.
8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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...
8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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...
8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

3-site PBHA/R replication monitoring: show all VG's and their status in the main window

useful in a multi-VG partition; increased delay can indicate perf issue on the source, for the workload in that VG
8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add FC ports (also non-host) to performance overview pane

Monitor the intersystem links, to have an immediate indication of replication or HA link problems.
8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

NTP updates needed

Static NTP IP addressing still being used in TS7700 and TS4500 hardware. We have new datacenter requirements of using DNS names instead of static IPs. Also giving the customer the ability to set these in the VTS hydra and being able to display the...
15 days ago in IBM TS7700 Virtual Tape Library 1 Under review

Provide a UUID for each object that is replicated across multiple clusters (e.g. in PBHA / PBR / Flashgrid Configurations)

Objects such as volume groups or hosts that are being replicated in a PBR/PBHA config exist as individual objects with local IDs on each FlashSystem Cluster, although they actually are considered as unique objects in a cluster-overarching context....
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Make "Hold service state" persist across power cycles.

Currently, at a remote location, there is no way to make a FlashSystem stay offline across power cycles. There are cases where power maintenance activities take place, and it is expected that power may go up & down multiple times. Having a Fla...
23 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Openshift ODF compatibility with Thin Provisioned disks

Thin Provisioned disks which are quick formatted using the dasdfmt utility with ODF / Ceph are currently not supported or recommended by IBM. TP disks have been supported since RHEL 8 on s390x / System z so why not with ODF / Ceph ?
19 days ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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