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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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V5030 RAS improvements

My customer had an incident with a V5030 machine in which one of the 2 controllers (canister) failed and it impacted the performance. They opened the PMR 41653,100,838 and after the logs analysis IBM support decided to restart the canister to solv...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Need a new option to control Hyperswap of SVC/Spectrum Virtualize

System: V9000 HyperswapActor: SK TelecomThe Scenario that causes system disruptions1. V9000 Hyperswap on site 2 IOGroup2. V9000 provide Hyperswap volume (site1:Master-site2:Aux)3. Provide 2x SAN switch for redundency4. Each host have 8 path connec...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Account Security Features added to Storwize V7000 - Inactivity Logout

Our IBM GBS team have been required on multiple Public Sector projects, specifically CMS HIGLAS, that are required to meet all the organization security requirement, (DoD, etc.) with the storage and SAN hardware. Being unable to comply with a secu...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

New commands to control SSH usage

the ability to monitor / prevent SSH sessions from interfering with functional access and processing of background workload
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Support Volume Expansion For More Platforms in Spectrum Virtualize Family

Currently, Spectrum Virtualize products (SVC, etc) only support volume expansion for AIX and Windows hosts. Other Operating Systems, such as Linux, support volume expansion. IBM should expand their support statement to include those.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Implement Target Port NPIV

Target Port NPIV would allow a Storage Engineer to put multiple physical WWN's and assign a virtual WWN that would in turn get zoned to hosts. This would simplify the amount of paths a host has to manage and make the storage system more resilient ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC Logon Limit

It is a requirement that user accounts are locked after 5x failed logon attempts
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

V7000 Logon Limit

It is a requirement that user accounts are locked after 5x failed logon attempts
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Single GUI to manage multiple Storwize V3700 Storage Controllers

Multiple Storwize V3700 Storage Controllers require multiple GUI browsers to manage each controller separately. This is not user friendly and there is no means to get the status of all Storage Controllers on a single browser. Dell provides this ab...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Disk encryption capabilities with SVC

Please provide disk encryption capabilities when using SVC and the backed disk controllers do not have encryption capabilities
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered