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    Change to CIM support

    On version 8.6.1 and newer, support for the CIM protocol is removed. Some third party applications that connect using the CIM protocol will need to be updated.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 13 Delivered

    FS9500 - inbound CHAP where we can manipulate the secret per host bases

    ISCSI- Mutual Chap authentication Inbound: We see option to set system wide chap secret authentication for ISCIS attached hosts. Currently IBM offering System wide chap (being configured via chsystem CLI) is used for two way chap authentication wh...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

    Realization of FlashCopy restore(reverse FlashCopy) while keeping 3-site HyperSwap relationships

    One limitation at this time is that the 3-site HyperSwap relationship must be deleted to perform a reverse FlashCopy, in which case the 3-site HS is reconfigured to cause an initial copy. Reverse FlashCopy are used as one of the normal operationa...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    Support of SVC stretched incremental snapshot by Spectrum Copy Data Management (SCDM)

    According to SCDM documentation, ii should be able to create mirrored snapshot when using an SVC with Enhanced Streched Cluster. Unfortunately this is not yet supported/working when Incremental Snapshots are used.
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

    Ability to hydrate volume group snapshots to existing volumes for subsequent days

    Customer has come from A9000 to FS9500 and wanted to used Volume Group snapshots but found that he couldn't do subsequent rehydration onto known volumes so made it difficult to script nightly snapshots to perform backups on media server. We need t...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    Support for IP based Static Routing (in connection with iSCSI volume/host mappings)

    At the definition of the iSCSI interface/addresse in the SVC - it is currently at an Eth port only possible to define ONE Standard Gateway. But if the IP network cannot be reached over this one Standard Gateway for any reason, then there must be a...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    Present option for high performance Volume Group Snapshots

    IBM i workloads and Epic Cache/Iris each have blueprints and best practices to use 64KB grain sizes for Thin Provisioned volumes and FlashCopy grain sizes. This is done with traditional FlashCopy and mkvdisk commands through the CLI. There are no ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

    Unique identifier for virtualized Spectrum Virtualize products to allow better integration with VMWare

    VMWare users who are virtualizing multiple different models of Spectrum Virtualize controllers behind SVC have no way of differentiating these at the VMWare as they are all presented of type "2145" or "SVC". This means that different round-robin p...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    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....
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

    Accepting STARTTLS 250 Command without "Hyphen"

    In an Flashsystem 7200 - 2076 with Firmware 8.5.0.5 we can not send TLS1.2 Emails because the STARTTLS 250 command required a "STATTLS-250" and downs't work with "STATTLS 250" so it doesn*t work without an Hyphen.
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

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