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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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

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

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

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

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.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to report IO Density in GUI for QoS Settings Montioring

Currently you cannot see the reports for the performance of volumes with QoS settings in the GUI. There is no indication of how closely the volumes are vs. the QoS settings nor their peaks.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Throttling at Pool Level Should Apply to All Volumes in Pool

The Bandwidth or IOPs settings should apply to all volumes in a pool instead of the pools themselves and be across whole clusters.This will save considerable operational effort and tooling development time.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Need FS9200 to support SCSI PR Read Full Status at SPC-3 Standard

Client wishes to implement FS9200 with RHEL HA Clustering. For success they need FS9200 to support Read Full Status Service action (03h) and perhaps yet unknown other functionality that comes with SPC-3.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

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