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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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parallel threads of volume / vdisk migation in SVC GUI

It is not possible to change the amount of threads for vdisk / volume migrations between mdiskgroups / pools inside the SVC GUI version 6.x
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

Capacity Threshold Alerting

The monitoring "Threshold" only allows for a single value to be set, not a second value. Example. Warning Threshold is set to 70%, when the pool exceeds 70% a Warning level severity alert is send. There is not an option to set a second threshold a...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SSD host identification for IBM i

SSD Host identification for IBM i is very crucial for customer who have invested in SSD in DS5000 and DS8K.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Storage Target Selection for Comprestimator CLI and GUI

SPectrum Virtualize provides Comprestimator statistics on board the Spectrum Virtualize layer based on RACE algorithm. There e are other possible hardware / software compression targets (FS900, FS9100, ...) for which Comprestimator is available in...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Concurrent failover of SVC Config node

Currently if the SVC cluster needs to fail over the config node it causes the hardware node that is the config node to reboot. This can expose problems to the paths and servers connected to this node, which can lead to loss of access or the necess...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Digital Encryption Key delete notification upon pool or rank removal

Upon child pool deletion (or rank deletion) CLI response and GUI popup will display a confirmation message that confirms the deletion of the encryption key and constitutes NIST compliant crypto erasure.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

FS7200 Proxy UI Test Function

FS7200 Proxy UI menu shows false information
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

Compression tool to measure performance and cache impact

Compression tool that allows assessment of performance impact, and not just disk space recovered. Also determine cache usage (enough for data compression ?)
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize does not warn or advise about number of backend paths

Spectrum Virtualize family of products do not advise administrators of missing paths (started at 4 and dropped to 2) nor does it advise when you have too few paths (2 instead of say 6 needed to take full advantage of backend storage) in the GUI or...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Specturm Virtualize does not provide a warning for too many paths being presented to hosts.

Spectrum Virtualize does not provide a warning nor prevention of too many paths visible to hosts. This is very common and causes many performance impacts or non-optimal performance.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration