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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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V7000 Configurable SNMP Alerts

Repeat SNMP alerts for errors not fixed within a given window should be configurable
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Mirrored Mdisk Group

Ability to create mirrored MDisk Groups
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SyncMirror rate value does not make sense.

During volume copy i was working with the Mirror Sync rate value once again.The value can be set from 1 to 100.Most people would say that would be 1 to 100%.So the value 50 would be 50% of the total available mirror sync rate speed.But that's not ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Need SVC to automatically creating livedump and SVCsnaps on triggered error.

Need SVC to be able to create a livedump and an SVC snap when certain errors occur.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize FQDN support

The Spectrum Virtualize SW stack needs to support FQDN/DNS addresses for LDAP/AD, NTP, SMTP, External Encryption Servers, or SNMP. Currently requires hard-coded IP addresses.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

disk names

We would like to ask for, disk names to be visible from the AIX client. Like it can be done for the XIV, via xiv_devlist This would be usefull for us, as we have host based mirroring, so you can find out the correct pair of disks
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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 ...
about 11 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.
about 11 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...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 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...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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