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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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SCSI Unmap at thin SVC volumes: recalculate after Unmap operation the reported value of actual written capacity

If SCSI Unmap operations are executed at SVC thin provisioned volumes, then the SVC GUI reflects the related physical allocation reduction on a consistent way (please see column “Usable Capacity” in the “Pools” view of the SVC GUI). But the data v...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Allow longer names for flash copy related items.

Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect when using FCM and SVC: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controlle...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Policy Based Replication Recovery Volume Names

We appreciate the simplicity of Policy Based Replication setup; however, we are in need of these two features to be added: 1. Allow custom naming of the recovery volumes. This is needed because we do not use the same system names between each site...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Expand TPI to more actions

With the new TPI feature it is not possible to delete safeguarded snapshots. We would very much like the feature expanded to include operations such as deleting regular datastores in an attempt to prevent ransomware attacks. And before you say "ju...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Disable selected Alerts and prevent daily messages.

We want the ability to disable 'recommended' Warning / Alerts from sending daily emails from selected events.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Warning when deleting volumes they still have snapshots associated with them.

Within the FlashSystem OS, when you delete a volume, the volume does not go away and remains in the system if there is a snapshot(s) associated with it. The OS does not tell you that it cannot delete, but simply places the volume in a delete(ing) ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Respect the TIER of the source volume when adding a volume copy to avoid performance impact

When a client adds a volume copy to a vdisk, for example when converting a volume from Basic to HyperSwap (but other situations would also apply), the SVC SW does not respect the TIER of the source volume when allocating the extents of the volume ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Logging for when a host exceeds its Throttling limit

Currently when a host exceeds it's Throttling limit there is no logging to inform us a host has hit its limit. With old XIV's and the A9K arrays, whenever a server hits its QOS limit, we would get an Event and could then investigate why a server w...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Use Redirect-on-Write for DRP Fully Allocated volumes

For FlashCopy (FC) to use Redirect-on-Write (RoW) instead of Copy-on-Write (CoW) in a Data Reduction Pool (DRP), current implementation requires both the source and the target volumes to be compressed + deduplicated, as the dedup reference countin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Send an SNMP trap when an open problem is fixed, for SNMP server to clean/drop the alert.

Send SNMP traps when open problems are fixed so clients can automate the cleanup of open issues on their monitoring tools.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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