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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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pause upgrade process after half of the nodes are done to allow verification that paths are back online

During the upgrade process, we had a host that did not recover paths as quickly as expected. We like the idea of the automated upgrade process but would like to see a pause after have of the nodes are upgrade. The customer would then confirm that ...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Storwize: Intra-Cluster Metro Mirror increase limit of 25 MB/s

Firmware 7.3.0.8 Customer has large databases 16TB and need Flashcopies (snaps with copyrate 0) for functional tests. For performance tests he will create a clone from one of this snaps. But with our FlashCopy architecture this is not possible bec...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Use cache for compressed adapter

Hello developers,I have only some exp with gen2 storwize. I know that gen2 have 64GB of cache on one node. But 32GB of ram is used for compressed volume. It will be nice and usefull when we can use this cache also for normal cache when I don't use...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Please increase the number of iSCSI connection nodes of v7000 to 512.

The customer GMO Cloud corporation is planning to install of V7000. GMO would like to connect a maximum of 512 connection nodes by ISCSI. Under the present circumstances, V7000 is to a maximum of 256. Please increase to 512.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Account Security Features added to Storwize SVC - System Use Notification

Our IBM GBS team have been required on multiple Public Sector projects, specifically CMS HIGLAS, that are required to meet all the organization security requirement, (DoD, etc.) with the storage and SAN hardware. Being unable to comply with a secu...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Account Security Features added to Storwize SVC - Inactivity Logout

Our IBM GBS team have been required on multiple Public Sector projects, specifically CMS HIGLAS, that are required to meet all the organization security requirement, (DoD, etc.) with the storage and SAN hardware. Being unable to comply with a secu...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Account Security Features added to Storwize V7000- System Use Notification

Our IBM GBS team have been required on multiple Public Sector projects, specifically CMS HIGLAS, that are required to meet all the organization security requirement, (DoD, etc.) with the storage and SAN hardware. Being unable to comply with a secu...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

vDisk Protection in a DTA Snapshot environment

With vdisk_protection_time and vdisk_protection_enabled, two parameters are provided in SVC and Storwize to prevent accidental deletion of a disc. Unfortunately, this function is unusable if additional products dynamically create and delete vDisk....
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

cli commands restricted to superuser account

certain cli commands require specific userid to execute. For example, to execute the svcconfig backup command you need to login as superuser from a support team perspective, the whole team supporting an SVC / V7000 would have to have access to the...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Account Security Features added to Storwize SVC and V7000

System: IBM SVC/V7000, Flashsystem, ProtectTIER, SAN768B-2 Actor: DoD compliant features added to Storage/SAN Hardware Description: Our team IBM GBS team have been required on multiple Public Sector projects, like CMS HIGLAS, that are required to ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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