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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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High redundancy SAS connection between expansion ecnlosure

The current design in SAS chain can't tolerate the middle of expansion enclosure fail.The middle of expansion enclosure failed will lead to pool offline.Customer hope IBM can provide high redundancy SAS chain to tolerate any of expansion enclosure...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Headline : require RPQ to be raised for new Host , storage (SVC 2145-DH8) combination as same is not present in SSIC

We want host OS, hba , fabric and storage micro code 8.3.1.5 to be listed in SSIC, currently its not present in SSIC , as a result we are not able to plan upgrade from 8.2.1.11 to 8.3.1.5 .
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Out of space alert/warning from healthchecker should repeat

Storage Insights Healthchecker for FlashSystems monitors both effective and physical capacity utilization and generates a warning alert if the capacity usage exceeds 80%. However this warning is then not generated again until the capacity utilizat...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

SRA - unmap source volumes from hosts during failover

source volumes are only unmapped from the hosts during SRM "reprotect" operation instead of during "failover" operation
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

SRA snapshots require meaningful name

snapshots created during failover/failback are being created without any decent naming convention (vdisk0 vdisk1 etc.. as vdisk names ; fcmap0 fcmap1 etc.. as fcmap names ; fcconsistgrp0 fcconsistgrp1 etc.. as consistency group names) > these s...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Energy Saving = « EasyTier » + « Start and Stop » : Automatically Turning off/on the cold data storage

The Idea for energy saving is to turning off the storage (Disk drive or SSD/FCM drive) where cold data is stored and just turning on this storage when data is requested. IBM EasyTier move cold data on slow drives and move hot data on fast drives. ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

FS9200 - Auto expand flash copy bit map space when allocating hyperswap volumes

The hyperswap volumes require flash copy bitmap space. This space is not autoexpanding and has to e manually set. Customer has to extend flashcopy bitmap space everytime manually to accommodate new allocations using instructions in the link below....
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

GUI enhancement to better monitor core activity and not overall averages

GUI enhancement to monitor CPU and see all core thread activity. Current GUI limits via to average node level activity and this limits the data viewed
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Config Node control on next movement

would like a feature that can identify the next targeted config node and have the ability to change the next targeted node.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

vDisks eaytier setting for balance only mode

Given a multi tier (easytier) MDG/pool with restricted and minimal capacity in the high performance tier **. Some vdisks having only warm extents shall not use the high performance tier but still should use the "intra tier balance" feature. vDisks...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration