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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Intellectual disk drive updates

If the system has multiple types of disks and a user tries to upgrade all of them, some disks may fail to update. This causes the whole upgrade process to stop and leave all the remaining disks (even upgradable) at an older version. In this case a...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Use Volume Groups for host mapping

Volume groups have become more and more useful for new functions such as SafeGuarded Copy, Snapshows 2.0 and regently Policy Based Reprication. While some customers my not be able to utilize the new functions new or when they start with a new flas...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

IBM SVC- request ability in V7.x GUI to create multi-volume (plus symbol) capability like in pre-V7.x GUI.

Pre-V7.x GUI, when creating New Volume there existed an ability to enter a (Volume Name, Size, # of Volumes) and ability to click on (plus symbol) to add new line for entering additional New Volumes. Appears that starting in V7.1.0.x GUI, that whe...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Mirrored volume Sync column added in Volume view of GUI

Allow the sync value of volume copies to be displayed in the volume view of the Storwize GUI. This information is available from the CLI command (lsvdiskcopy). Requesting to add this visibility from the GUI.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Enable SNMP access

The V7000 support only SNMP Traps. It would be nice to monitor with SNMP MIB, so that a healthy state could also be determined.
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

128 mdisk per pool

The SVC has a limit from 128 mdisk per mdiskpool.This limit is clearly too small for performant enfironment. We need at least 512 mdisk or 1024 mdisks per pool. So the memory for caching can be better utilized. A breakdown of the memory does not m...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Compression for Virtualize is Selective

Virtualize/Storwize Compression is selective by nature; meaning that it will allow you to compress data which will cause performance impact despite being able to identify non-compressible data. This leads to many performance related impacts.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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

indication of severity in the notification e-mail subject line

Currently, all notification e-mails shows "warning" in the subject line. Customer cannot which one needs immediate action and which one is really just a warning. Since each event is classified as "warning" or "error", the corresponding notificatio...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

add awk to restricted shell in spectrum virtualize

please add awk to available commands in restricted shell on storwize / spectrum virtualize systems
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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