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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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.
almost 5 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.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Virtualize 8.4 Password Policy

Per customer request:Spectrum Virtualize Password Policies Hello we would like to use the password policy in Spectrum Virtualize; however, we do not want the policy implemented for superuser, tpc user or storage insights (SIadmin) user. How can we...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC/Storwize doesn't generate errors on certain conditions that are serious problems

Certain types of errors on the SVC and Storwize family of products that represent an actual problem with the system are flagged as warnings. Among these are error 1138, which represents an external loss of power. This is an event that warrants cus...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Allow Easytier to place data on any tier of storage

The customer would like to tell Easytier to place incoming data on any tier of storage, specifically in this case, tier 0. They pull in databases to their storage and want to quickly access them from Tier 0. This functionality is provided in compe...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Finding WWPNs for spare nodes in SpecVirt products is difficult

The main management interfaces for the Spectrum Virtualize family makes it difficult (CLI) to impossible (GUI) to find the WWPNs for spare nodes. On the CLI, the sainfo lsservicestatus command can be used to find the WWPNs on spare nodes, but addi...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Be able to configure the proxy server with IP ADDRESS and not only with FQDN

Some customers use the proxy server with IP instead of FQDN due to internal rules
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Hyperswap: Choosing survival site

Need ability to specify site, that remain active in case of replication link is down (split brain).Customer strongly required to manually choose main site,
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC Mirrored Volumes - Change all primary Volumes at once

In SVC current releases, it is not possible to switch all primary volumes at once from one mirror to the other. It's only possible switch the primary state for each LUN (Volume) in the SVC for mirrored Volumes.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FS7200 Proxy UI Test Function

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

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