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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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

FS7200 Proxy UI Test Function

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

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

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.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

SpecVirt location field doesn't allow non-alphanumeric chars

The "location" field in Spec Virt products doesn't allow for non-alphanumeric chars.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Is a defect

Forward audit logs/events to syslog server (user login/logout and failed logins).

Customer uses Splunk to capture and mine syslog events. Requesting to add login/logout/failed login events to syslog on FlashSystem A9000R.
about 3 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.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Ability to set a management/service IP address with no default gateway

The customer I work for has his SVC cluster in an isolated network with no routing and thus no default gateway. When I try to configure the IP addressing, if I leave the "default gateway" field empty, the save button won't be available, forcing us...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC volume naming and sorting

When using the web GUI to create multiple volumes the only option for appending a numerical suffix is to use base 10 numbers. Would like the ability to append a hex number, or even better would be to be able to use the last several digits of the U...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Present option for high performance Volume Group Snapshots

IBM i workloads and Epic Cache/Iris each have blueprints and best practices to use 64KB grain sizes for Thin Provisioned volumes and FlashCopy grain sizes. This is done with traditional FlashCopy and mkvdisk commands through the CLI. There are no ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release