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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Enable assignment of volume extents to a specific tier level within an easy tier hybrid pool

Can you enable that all extents of a specific volume can be assigned to a specific tier level within an easy tier hybrid pool configuration ? Example: hybrid pool contents of 3000 GB Flash Tier and 50000 GB Enterprise tier. Create new volume and a...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Independent Certificates for Key Servers

Need to separate the client and server certificates for SafeNets Gemalto Key Servers. Currently, they are on the same certificate.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Request option for previous SVC GUI behavior to modify characteristics of volumes

Previously in SVC 7.5 code, the volume characteristics could be edited in the GUI from the properties menu of the volume. This was changed in 7.6 so that modifications (such as a cache mode change) were made available in the GUI in the actions men...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC Audit Log Only Viewable for Privileged User

Currently the audit log can be viewed/downloaded by a ‘monitor' level accountThe audit requirement is that this information should only be accessible by a privileged (admin) account or an auditor level account as per DS8000Applied to SVC and V7000
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC Configurable SNMP Alerts

Repeat SNMP alerts for errors not fixed within a given window should be configurable
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC Encryption Algorithm Not Shown in GUI/CLI

After enabling SVC software encryption and encrypting all storage pools a customer requested that we provide a proof of encryption including algorithm used to encrypt data at rest. To our surprise SVC does not show algorithm used for the encryptio...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC SNMP alert repeat interval

The SNMP alerts are currently re-issued periodically. This results in operations paging out the storage team each time. We would like a means to suppress subsequent reissued alerts once the primary alert has been delivered. The purpose of this is ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC RSA/IMM

Customer would like to monitor the hardware failures, like power cable cut situation, similar to other xSystem server via RSA/IMM interface.In pmr it was stated, that this feature was not tested and that way it is not supported. Implementing that ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

compressed volumes copy count in lsiogrp

The "compressed volume copy count" is restricted by an io_group. But one needs several commands (with filter) to get the "compressed volume copy count" per io_group. It would be nice if another column added to the command "lsiogrp" with a counter ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Make volume mappings read-only

For optimal backup of vmware virtual infrastructures the backup proxies (OS: Windows) need direct access to vmfs volumes over san. A small miss configuration/bug of a windows proxy host has a big chance of loosing the complete vm environment throu...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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