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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Greater than 512 LUNs per host on the V7000

The capability of creating at least 4000 LUNs per host. Current capabilities limit this number to 512.
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Change Volume Reconfiguration due to WAN Interuption causes long recovery from WAN impacts

Stop SVC Change Volume reconfiguration due to WAN interruption. SVC GM CV's will cause a reconfigure (w/host IO quiesce) when WAN interruption occurs. The feature needs more resiliency built in to withstand interruptions from the WAN, as well as i...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Lockheed Martin SVC GUI

When looking at a Pool (MDG) in the GUI why does it only show the Virtual Capacity when the pool is over-provisioned?
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SVC - Multiple Thresholds

We like to see warnings on Pool usage but in a critical situation…a warning isn't enough. Today many warnings come through the system especially with Global Mirror….warning for pool space usage get lost easily. A warning with a higher criticality ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

create greater than 99 volumes in GUI simultaneously

Ability to create greater than 99 volumes simultaneously in the GUI. Current GUI interface is limited to 99, it would be useful to at least have 1500 simultaneous or better still the max current capable count of volumes.
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

SVC/V7K Global Mirror with Change Volumes and TPC 5.1

Please add support for SVC/V7K Global Mirror with Change Volumes to TPC 5.1.
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Optionally don't show the alert 986020 regarding Thin-provisioned volumes space

The message of the event ID code 986020 is shown very often for Thin-provisioned volumes, and causes the event log sometimes to flood with a message that can be ignored. The client wants an option to prevent the message from being shown.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

IO group distribution for creating new volumes in a cluster with several io groups

If you create a single vDisk in succession in a SVC cluster with four io groups, they will be distributed cleanly over the IO groups. But if you create many vDisk in one go they all end up in an IO group. There should be a switch to synonymous wit...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Storwize - Increase to host mapping limit

The limit of host mappings of 20000 in the past had been sufficient when the number of hbas per host allowed was 512. Since this was downgraded in 7.5 this has meant our large clusters had a large increase in the number of host mappings required. ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TLS/SSL Server Supports The Use of Static Key Ciphers

To support the use of ciphers with DHE/ECDHE, and to have the options to edit the ciphersuite available. Perfect foward secrecy.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered