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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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SVC-Allocated Core (CPU) per volume

Hi, Our customer need to have the following feature (available at competition): To monitor Core (CPU) usage by Volume and info on percentage used.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Issue an alert for less physical capacity

This idea is related to SCSI-I-1160. "Auto stop of Write operation against oops" may be too difficult, so I'll submit another idea. The customer encountered oops (Out of Physical Space) on FlashSystem 900 AE3 under V7000. The customer request...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Allow DRAID6 to be configured with 2 rebuild areas when using FCMs

A customer is requesting that we allow them to create a DRAID 6 array with 2 rebuild areas when using FCMs . Or allow him the option to have a "hot spare"disk that could jump into the array.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

snmp event testing functionality

One of my Expert care customers contacted me and specifically requested to submit a request for him to add the funcionality to be able to test snmp in future code releases. At the moment there is no such funcionality on FS7300 and they have to cre...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Safegard Copy functionality running on FS5015/5035

There are many small/medium companies in Japan. If the Safegard Copy function works with FS5015/5035, I believe I can aggressively propose it to small and medium-sized companies.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Flashsystem should use multiple CPU cores to process I/O per Volume instead of just one core per Volume

Layer 3 Communications (Customer) was experiencing low performance/high latency issues on their FlashSystem 5030 on a large Volume. IBM Support was engaged and the SME told them that this is because the FlashSystem is designed to utilize only one ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Add / create a CLI command in order to remove permanent "inactive" entries from lsfabric

With situations in which client changes zoning, this also includes when they are implementing NPIV from just physical ports (transitional), it is common to have bad manipulation from the multipath driver over the host paths which causes previous p...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

FlashSystem NAS

Japanese VAD. I am afraid this is a simple question.Why is it that only IBM does not have a NAS that can be bought for about 1 to 2 million yen?FlashSystem's FCM is excellent as block storage.However, we are often told by our Japanese customers.In...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Flash Remote Copy Volume Progress

We use Remote Copy to keep two Flash 5000s in sync. Occasionally there is a network disruption or similar issue that slows the progress. To see the progress we need to use putty and run the command lsrcrelationship. It would be very useful to have...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Save failed commands ran on cluster to be viewed in audit logs with output in Blue Diamond

* SME Martin Dzhagarov suggested this , so creating this RFE * - Where were supposed to look for failed commands.This is Blue Diamond and I don't think that it show up in the audit log- Failed commands do not show up in the Audit log. Can the cust...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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