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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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).
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

IBM V3700 Storewize Email functionality

Hello Team, Currently, our storewize has been configured with email feature under the path (Notifications --> Email configured) and we do receive "Alert Event Notifications" whenever there is an issue/event generated within Storewize like Drive...
over 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...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Capability to generate a "application consistent" snapshot on a secondary when replicating data with new policy-based async replication

Scenario is quite simple: client wants to generate an "application consistent" snapshot on his secondary site while data are replicated using new policy-based replication. To do so client will freeze I/O on primary site once application is in a co...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Better vendor-independent monitoring

Currently SMI-S is the only supported vendor-neutral API. We have 5 vendors in our storage environment. The SNIA Swordfish API is not currently implemented by either vendor, with only timid hints at future implementations. We need to have professi...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 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,...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

CLI command to show email notification status (Started or Stopped)

On occasion we have disabled notifications to suppress alerting during changes but have forgotten to turn it back on again. we know in the CLI we can "startemail" and "stopemail" to control the notifications but we cannot find a way to show whethe...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Central Storage Managment console for SVC / Vxxxx Storage

Provide a Central Management Console, like XIV GUI, for SVC and Vxxxx Storage
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Host across ownership group

Customer replaced A9000 with FS9500 and runs into this issue: on SpVirt, the host object is part of the ownership group (tenant domain) (<> A9 did not consider hosts as part of the 'tenancy domain'). There is a manual workaround (chghostcl c...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future 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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