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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Repeat email alerts are often indistinguishable from "new" email alerts. Add the word "Reminder" to subject line.

The SVC will send reminder notifications about errors/events that have not been "Fixed" every 24 hours. When these reminder emails are received, the text in the subject line is exactly the same as the original email notification. This duplication ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

DRP Pool -> Migrate vDisk between DRPs

Introduction of the migratevdisk command for DRP pools.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

DRP Pool -> show internal volumes in vdisk list or on a seperate list

Producing transparency, not just accounting for the consumption of internal volumes in the pool, but displaying those volumes in the volume list of consumptions.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

CLI to set Restful API requests limits

As for now request limits for restful API are hard-coded in SVC. See table in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sanvolumecontroller/8.5.x?topic=svc-spectrum-virtualize-restful-api. For some use cases it makes sense to set the limits higher to enable aut...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Use Volume Groups for host mapping

Volume groups have become more and more useful for new functions such as SafeGuarded Copy, Snapshows 2.0 and regently Policy Based Reprication. While some customers my not be able to utilize the new functions new or when they start with a new flas...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

debug capability for Cloud Object Storage from Spectrum Products

Our team configures Transparent Cloud Tiering - Cloud Object Storage Connection from Spectrum Storage Products (SVC, Virtualize, FS9100, A9000, V7000, V5000).
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC GUI enhancement request

In the SVC GUI - when viewing hosts:The host mappings column shows a no or yes and disk symbol. Suggested change:Also display the number of volumes that are lunmasked.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

StorM performance evalution problem

StorM evaluates performance better than the actual machine.StorM evaluates at 300,000 IOPS or more/1 msec or less under the following conditions. The bottleneck is CPU Utilization.FS7200, 4.8TB FCM x 13, DRAID6, Read:Write=99%:1%, Block size=6KiB,...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SNMP Query support for Storwise V3700

The V3700 SNMP Implementation only pushes management/monitoring information. We have a large OEM Opportunity that requires the ability to pull SNMP data for automated management purposes. SNMP exposes management data in the form of variables on th...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Remote Console - SVC

It is possible to have remote console access to the SVC engine - where there are remote sites, to be able to review if there is an issue during upgrade, or view boot process.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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