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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Increase the number of Vdisks

We are using Oracle with SVC and need to take FULL snaps of the primary luns. We also plan to replicate the primary luns but not all luns as we dont replicate Temp..etc. This is creating multiple Consistency groups for each primary lun and eating ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Central management console to be able to manage all SVC clusters from one pane.

Central management console to be able to manage all SVC clusters from one pane. This saves having to log onto each cluster GUI.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Automatic aux vdisk creation on remote copy relationship creation.

When you create Remote Copy relationships, you need to identify the source LUN / Size / Name, then create an IDENTICAL (to the last Kb in size) volume on the auxiliary site. Then you can create the relationship – master / aux. If there was a simpl...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

"Autoexpand" option for THIN and Compressed volumes on SVC

We are currently using IBM SVC v7.5.x and v7.6.x. We found that while creating THIN or Compressed volumes using GUI, option "Automatically Expand" option is enabled by default, however while creating THIN and Compressed volumes using CLI, we need ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Node id change because of a shutdown

When a node in SVC is stopping unexpectedly, not regularly shut down, then the node gets a new node ID. Actually the node is automatically removed from the frame and then added again with a new id. This ruins the numbering system in the frame. Als...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SNMP Alert for Vdisk Mirroring out-of-sync

Italian Customer with large environment based on SVC in stretched cluster + GM over 450km is using mirrorwritepriority set to latency. The customer want to receive an SNMP alert when VdiskMirroring goes out-of-sync. Accordingly with Hursley Archit...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC node id changed

On the SVC GUI interface the node display name has been changed even after a UPS battery change. We need the GUI to keep the names on the list after any hardware operation. Would be great if it worked like the V7000 storage interface. It seems for...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Easytier PROD,DEV,TEST

Allow tier participation, selection by LUN. Today, each LUN can only be selected easytier on/off.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SVC Vdisk Default SCSI ID

When you create a new Vdisk and map it to a host the SCSI id 0 shoud not be open for mapping by default. Like the XIV, SCSI ID0 is reserved for boot from SAN and like the XIV iyou have to manually enable SCSI 0 to put a LUN on it. Please update th...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Not under consideration

Management IP address failover on eth port failure

IBM V7000 7.1.0.2Problem description:We have V7000 controller with configured eth1 port on both nodes. Also Service IP is configured on those ethernet ports.During the test we simulate ethernet port failure with disconnecting ethernet cable from c...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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