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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Earlier warning for SVC UPS Battery EOL

Banner Health is requesting MUCH earlier warning of SVC-UPS Battery EOL/Failure/Exhaustion so that planned battery replacement can occur instead of emergency battery replacement, or worse - SVC Cluster outage. If possible, several months earlier w...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Include SNMP agent's IP address ( Strowize cluster IP) into SNMP trap

Our client use the SNMP agent IP address to filter the SNMP trap. But our Storwize systems are not send the IP-address with the SNMP trap. All other systems from IBM and other vendors send the IP- address within the trap. We know that the SNMP V2 ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced SVC GUI Performance Monitoring

From customer :CPU It would be nice to see breakdown across iogroups and nodes to show any imbalances Vdisk metricsHere it would be nice to be able to drill down to a vdisk levelThe ability to break down vdisk metrics to host level. Mdisk metricsT...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Validate Hostbus adapter for SVC

adapter 1: Server: HPe Proliant Rackserver G9/G10 HBA: Option 1: - Emulex SN1600E2P- FW: 12.8.352.12 - Driver Version: 12.8.329.1Option 2:- Emulex SN1100E2P - FW:12.8.352.12- Driver Version 12.8.329.1 Link to the matrix:https://www-03.ibm.com/syst...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Change to Remote Support Roles

Alter Monitor Use role to enable opening of remote support session and (optionally) send a SNAP. Alternatively create a new role - Remote Support (?) - that can do so.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

MDiskGroups/Pools require manual size selections

Actor: Virtualize UsersProduct: Virtualize Products (such as the SVC and V7000) which virtualize other storage devices do not intelligently size the mdiskgroups/pools on the backend. This allows Virtualize Users to define excessively large pools w...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

VMware VVols support on Data Reduction Pools

Nowadays VMware VVols could be used in any IT environment worldwide.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize/Storwize /Flash need more notification options

The Spectrum Virtualize code (and related systems) allow email addresses to have combinations of notification emails sent (inventory, info, warning, and error). At least as of FlashSystems version 1.5.1.2, a new restriction is being enforced. Atte...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Add more than 2 site support in SRA/SRM (VMware Site Recovery Manager for SVC

VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) interacts with SVC SRA (Site Recovery Adapter) for Site-A to Site-B using Metro Mirror. When adding another Metro Mirror relationship Site-A to Site-C (for a complete different purpose on different LUN). The prev...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

show rebuild V7000 under running tasks

As you can see we've had a hard disk with a lot errors. We've changed the hdd with a new one and reset the disk status back to spare disk. After this the array began to rebuild, but you can't see anything under the GUI of the V7000. Only with a sp...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Is a defect