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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Storwize V7000 automatic SNAP sent together with call home for problem notification

In case of hardware incident reported by automatic call home function of the Storwize have the possibility to send also an automatically generated SNAP.
about 9 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...
about 6 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.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

svc remote copy initialization enhancment (no zero block replication)

On setting up a new remote copy relationship the volumes have to be synchronized initially. On large volumes (1TB and above) that are replicated over a long distance this can multiple days even if the source volume is thin provisioned and hardly u...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

Hyper scale manager CSR Generation

This is for IBM Hyperscale manager application request for CSR generation for certificate renewal We don't find any option so we logged a case with IBM spectrum control
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

VSC, Self Service portal, increase in number of allowed servers mapings for a volume for ESX, Hyper-V

A customer in middle east having VMware Cluster and Hyper-V with more than 20 physical servers. But VSC 5.2.5, Self Service portal , number of allowed servers mappings for a volume limited with 5. This is much less than ESX cluster and Hyper-V clu...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Support for Infiiband on Storwize (SVC, V7000 and or V5000)

Infinband usage is being seen in competitors products and need to know when it will be incorporated in the Storwize offering. We're losing deals in DoE labs and NASA to NetApp and Dell because we don't have IB connected storage..
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Citi needs increase for the max limit for vol name

Chatting with our dev team, the max limit for vol name length is 63 in the code (though we see 58 for ours). They can officially start working on increasing it with an RFE from Citi. I pushed for 256 and they’re open to it.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

QoS Settings Should be per Pool, not per Node

Currently QoS Settings for Pools are per Node, not per Cluster. QoS settings should exist per pool per Cluster instead. This will prevent excess effort in management and maintenance in storage environments.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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