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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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 ?)
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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

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.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future 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.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under 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

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...
almost 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.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Collapse all option desired for GUI Volumes dialog

In the FlashSystem / Storage Virtualize GUI, the Volumes option lists three lines for every primary volume in a HyperSwap configuration. Each primary volume has a 'twistie' to close the secondary line items, but all volumes are expanded on dialog ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Support use of Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) in virtual mode in conjunction with the IBM FlashSystem SRA in VMware SRM

MSP wants to provide possiblity of this setup to one of their tenants.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration