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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Policy Based Replication Allow rename of Volume group with replication policy assigned

    For our larger customers where we are (currently) replicating with GM/GMCV consistency group names are chosen alongside with the customer as they would like to easily identify by CG name to which application the volumes in the consistency group be...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 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.
    almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

    Support a 64K vdisks

    I would like to suggest to expansion of the quantity of supported vdisks to 64.000 logical address. More than one customer here (@ Brazil) bring this kind of specification in their RFPs and/or Public auctions, what reflect in a lot of work to unde...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

    vVol/VASA Support without IBM Spectrum Control Base (& SVC)

    A Customer with a very large SVC installation wants to have vVol/VASA Support without IBM Spectrum Control Base for his SVC environment: Handling & administration without many components
    about 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

    Multi-cluster Hyperswap for Spectrum Virtualize

    Current Hyperswap implementation exists within a single Spectrum Virtualize cluster. An outage of the entire cluster is possible, thereby offering a lesser degree of availability
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

    Send data using Call Home cloud service FS9100

    The problem is that I cant configure the Send data using Call Home cloud service to use a proxy to send data.The Flash system is trying to connect directly to 129.42.56.189, 129.42.54.189, and 129.42.60.189 via port 443https://www.ibm.com/support/...
    almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

    Add Expand capability for fully allocated hyperswap volumes

    Recently an option was added (8.4?) to FlashSystem software (Storwize) allowing easy expansion of in-use Hyperswap volumes through the GUI. An unfortunate restriction of this for us was that it cannot be used with fully allocated hyperswap volumes...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 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

    Ability to expand existing mdisk by adding a single disk

    Allow an existing mdisk to be expanded.An existing mdisk RAID 5/6 or DRAID would be able to be expanded by adding a single disk.An existing mdisk RAID 10 would be able to be expanded by adding a pair of disks.
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

    IP quorum support double SAN switch failure.

    The IP quorum on the Hyperswap solution creates a huge risks in the fact that you can't fail double SAN switches on a single site. Doing this will cause the complete solution to reboot and will cause downtime on both your sites. We would like IBM ...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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