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    Lockheed Martin - SVC Pool Rebalance

    SVC Pool rebalance! This is a manual process today.
    about 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

    Lockheed Martin - SVC GM

    Currently you can navigate in the GUI to Copy Services à FlashCopy Mappings and see the live status and % complete for all FlashCopies in your system. There is nothing like this for Global Mirror Mappings. You can look under Running Tasks but that...
    about 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

    SVC - Multiple Thresholds

    We like to see warnings on Pool usage but in a critical situation…a warning isn't enough. Today many warnings come through the system especially with Global Mirror….warning for pool space usage get lost easily. A warning with a higher criticality ...
    about 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    Visual notification in case of SMTP problem

    If, for any reason (misconfig or network problem), SMTP server is not reachable, the Node display shows 2600. 2600 : 009150 Unable to connect to SMTP (e-mail) server The GUI main page shows "all green". It's only when the customer digs into to the...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

    Replicated volume expansion without deleting relationship

    We need the ability to expand volumes with a Metro Mirror remote copy without deleting the relationship between the volume and its copy. Deleting and re-creating this relationship every time there is the need to expand a volume poses a risk to the...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

    create greater than 99 volumes in GUI simultaneously

    Ability to create greater than 99 volumes simultaneously in the GUI. Current GUI interface is limited to 99, it would be useful to at least have 1500 simultaneous or better still the max current capable count of volumes.
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

    GUI difference for creating. Readability degraded

    When creating a new Remote copy relationship with consistency groups. We see a difference in the GUI how LUNs are listed.In v6.2.0.5 full names are displayed while in v6.3.0.4 the names are truncated making it not easy to read. Only on mouse-over ...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

    V7000 Spare Capacity distributed among disks in array rather than dedicated hot spare.

    I think that the V7000 would greatly benefit from having distributed spare capacity rather than dedicated hot spares. The XIV benefits greatly from this and being that it's IBM's product, I expect it would be easy to get out there from a legal per...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

    increase the number of Host Connections to more than 1024 per SVC IO Group

    Increase the number of Host Connections to more than 256 per IO Group and 1024 per cluster
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

    Please add formal support for "Storage Groups" on SVC/V7K

    There is currently no formal functionality to create a 'storage group' (or container) on SVC/V7K platforms as of version 6.4. Users are forced to either create many multiple individual host-to-lun masks OR create 'arbitrary' storage groups by labe...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

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