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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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

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

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

Easy Tier migration plan customizable time interval

Easy Tier migration plans are now created each 24 hour. Provide a customization option to allow shorter intervals.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Replication: enable TCP Window Scaling

Based on information in the PMR and simulations it appears that the replication is using a fixed TCP Window size. Please consider enabling TCP Window Scaling to allow bigger transfers speeds.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

vdisk mirror is out of sync

When a vdisk mirror is out of sync, the CLI currently does not exhibit a field to display precisely which copy of the vdisk mirror is in use. The active copy is implied when the copy is sync=true and primary=yes or when the sync=no and primary=no....
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Show SCSI ID (LUN) in View Volume by Host

In the "Volumes by Host" View is a column missing to show the SCSI ID or LUN Number which is assigned to the vdisk by the specific host.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Supports Key Wrapping over KMIP Protocol

Key wrapping is a cryptographic algorithm which aims to provide “privacy and integrity protection for specialized data such as cryptographic keys. KMIP Protocol currently supports the Key Wrapping functionality but IBM Storwize V7000 do not suppor...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration