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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Hung Process control

During the time of impact to the GUI we encountered an issue with generating support saves which slowed down and increased delays in recovery. If there was a method to kill the current running process used for the support save collection, it might...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

Create new user group and role that can only Start/Stop Remote Support Assistance

Currently administrator or restricted administrator role is needed to start or stop a remote support access session. This does not meet our security requirements since this role can perform many other functions. We want a role that does only one t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

allow metromirror between hyperswap clusternodes

Provide possibility to create metro mirror relationships between 2 storwize hyperswap cluster nodes.currently this can be only done through command line.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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

EasyTier Pool new extent allocation on specific Tier

Build an option for SVC Easter pools so that we can set the allocation of new extents to a specific tier level.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC option to remove vdisk on schedule

Problem description: if vdisk deletions are requested, we always keep them an extra month ; this to prevent if a vdisk deletion was requested by mistake ; or to restore files from itCurrent workaround: we created some scripts to make this possible...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Volume Creation date and User data

We would like to see the ability to see the volume creation date and what user created the volume as a selectable field in the GUI
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Allow V7000 monitoring using industry standard protocols

Allow monitoring of performance data using read-only credentials and industry standard tooling.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

FICON support for SVC

Problem description: No ability to provision storage from SVC to MainframeCurrent workaround: None
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

No confidential information may be part of the storage snap transfered to support team.

Call Home SVC at level 7.6.1.5 The customer is a weapons company with very restrictive confidentiality rules. This company is requesting that, for Storage snaps transfers to support teams, no confidential information may be part of the transfer (l...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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