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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Spectrum Virtualize needs a replication Wizard which advises on ALL parameters

Replication setup can be highly impactful if done incorrectly. Most mistakes revolve around either 1) Defaults such as buffer size, partnership bandwidth, and gm link tolerance. 2) Improper FCIP Switch Configuration
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Customer wants to extend the time between node upgrades with the SVC

Customer had multiple servers go down during their last upgrade. They would like the time between node upgrades to be tunable instead of the standard 30 minutes in length. Ideally they feel that if they had more time they could complete the valida...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Dynamic volume expansion for HyperSwap volumes

We urgently need the support for dynamic volume expansion at HyperSwap volumes. Currently one HyperSwap volume copy needs to be removed to enable the volume expansion and afterwards to be re-created &re-synchronized again to do this. This resu...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Add DST flag to timestamp in Perfstat files

A small but helpful cleanup change: Could you please add the Daylight Savings Time (DST) Flag to the Timestamp in all 4 performance statistics filetypes (Nv, Nm, Nd, Nn)? End of October countries like Germany (TimeZone 360) have a negative clock c...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Better hardware alerting \ callhome

In SVCs we see certain scenarios where hardware issues especially on DIMMs do not call home and do not post any alert messages. Is is possible to get development to make the SVC alert us about these events?Example - PMR 10919,004,000Event log is c...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

make environmental stats available in SVC nodes

For a while now, Storwize and FlashSystem controllers support environmental statistics like watts used and temperature, which can be queried by 'lsenclosurestats'. Funnily, no recent SVC generation supports this command, ie SV1/2/3 and SA2. Many c...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

SCSI Unmap support Hitachi Data Systems VSP Series

We are reqeusting the support of the SCSI Unmap command for Hitachi Data Systems VSP Series on Spectrum Virtualize systems.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

make applydrivesoftware site-aware

'applydrivesoftware' should honour site-awareness, in particular in HyperSwap topologies and change its default "all in one shot" behaviour to a "paced site by site" one.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Automatically use the same preferred node of source volumes for snapshot target volumes.

Automatically use the same preferred node for target snapshot volumes of source snapshot volumes.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Expansion of volumes with a FlashCopy mapping

Currently you have to stop and delete the FlashCopy mapping, if like to expand the volume capacity! Today we run a cirtial process to replace a volume in the LVM / ZFS-Pool to expand capacity. After the process is finished, Easy-Tier must learn an...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

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