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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Add Deleting Volumes to background processes when removing from DRP pool

    When we've deleted volumes from the GUI they had removed but when we went onto the cli it showed these as deleting, this would be useful to show in the background tasks as then we could have seen these were still being removed off the storage as t...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Add volume and host tagging and notes capability

    It would be helpful to have the ability to apply filter-able tags and/or notes to volumes and hosts. VMware has this capability and it is useful for automation as well as organization. Tags can be used by automation to find a collection of objects...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Per host PWWN data collection for IBM storage insights from IBM Storage Vritualise

    The customer has a cluster of 5 hosts which uses a collection of 10 LUNS to get the production environment. When we see storage insights, the data collected is from the volumes in the storage and populated on the console. There's no data collected...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Schedule a snapshot every 4 weeks via GUI (currently only available via CLI)

    A snapshot schedule created via GUI does not allow this schedule: mksnapshotpolicy -backupunit week -backupinterval 4 Using the GUI, only once a month can be set but customer needs every 4 weeks for his schedule. He primarily uses GUI, rather than...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Enable for storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time

    Hello IBM-team,can you please enable for SVC storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time ?The goal is: generate warning events at three different storage pool utilization levels, which can individuall...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    Make "Hold service state" persist across power cycles.

    Currently, at a remote location, there is no way to make a FlashSystem stay offline across power cycles. There are cases where power maintenance activities take place, and it is expected that power may go up & down multiple times. Having a Fla...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    IBM Callhome for Node Reboot

    IBM node panic Rebooted on 09/17, but no callhome generated to IBM(TS017220322) In event of Node reboots due to any bug may go unnoticed if the node comes up within 30 mins. Fidelity would like to generate a callhome to IBM and a case should open ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Capability to throttle vdisk by defining a goal response time (possibility to delay an I/O to a value)

    There are an increasing number of clients asking for the functionality of specifying the goal response time of a volume (vdisk), so that it doesn't go faster than this goal and does not use resources that could be used by other volumes.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Monitoring the number of I/Os prevented by Throttle for a vdisk.

    This RFE is to have a monitoring / statistics capability of throttled volumes, to see how many I/Os exceeded the configured limit. This is useful for clients to adjust the throttle when too many I/Os are being "paced". Competition (HP storages) al...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    SSO login for CLI (MS Azure or ADFS)

    For a while now, there's MFA SSO support for the Storage Virtualize GUI. However to comply with our internal security policy, we also need to enable this for CLI access to our storage systems. Please add CLI login support to the authentication met...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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