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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Add description fields to GUI and CLI to store information about host and LUN

It would be nice to have description fields in the GUI (and CLI as well) where you can place some kind of logical information about a host and LUN. It maybe different at customer sites, but as all Servicelines within SSO have their specialism, we ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Expansion of volumes with a Metro Mirror relationship

Actually you need not only to stop a mirror relationship when you want to expand a volume, you have to delete it. That means that there´s a need for a "full synchronization after creation" which takes a lot of time in case of large volumes due to ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Delivered

Add compression savings information to V7000 / SVC GUI

With the addition of 'Uncompressed Volume Size' to the RACE SDK version 1.88.7 and onwards, this information will be available through RACE API integrated into SVC/V7000 in environments using Real-time Compression capability. Since this informatio...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Host Description in SVC/Storwize V7000 GUI

SVC GUI currently does not have a "description" for hosts. Often customers use cryptic names (eg DLCS001) for their servers and therefore host names within SVC GUI. Therefore the host name does not contain any information about location, applicati...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SVC Location information

We should add a location information for the SVC Clusters and individual nodes, so that in MetroMirror and Global Mirror as well as split cluster setups the user can more easily identify the location of entities.
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Display/edit Storage pool property

Currently the new SVC GUI doesn't offer any way to display or edit the pool properties. We would like to have the ability to change some of the pools attributes via the new GUI. The following attributes should be included:- Easy Tier - Capacity wa...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SVC STAT Tool should show volume and pool names

Currently the IBM Storage Tier Advisor Tool does show volume IDs and pool ID instead of human readable names, In addition those IDs are shown in hex format which is nowhere used in the SVC CLI or GUI. The tools seems to be created/targeted at DS80...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 7 Delivered

Support SSL communication between TSM Fastback for Workstations client and TSM server

We would like to use SSL when communicating between client and TSM-server. This is al-ready possible when installing the API from a TSM ba-client. But it's not supported. We "proved" the functionallity in PMR: 90994,110,846 .
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

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