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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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FCM4Unix with SVC - SE Flashcopy and Cloning

It would be nice to have space efficient flashcopies and clones of a source volume on SVC without the current dependencies (SVC flashcopy mapping list is really stringent).
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

SVC - Flashcopy incremental sync report sizes

Currently when taking a SVC Flashcopy snapshot there's no way of recording or reporting how much was copied from the source to target vdisks.
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

implement managed disk (mdisk) mirroring

We would like to see the ability to mirror mdisks, similar to the current ability to mirror vdisks.
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Storwize V7000 migration logging messages

More detailed monitoring/logging of migration tasks.
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 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

Host group object (Cluster / Farm)

Host group object (Cluster / Farm) and Host port description
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Host group object (Cluster / Farm)

Host group object (Cluster / Farm) and Host port description
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

DS8K - Failure of command to unmap or delete a LUN identified with I/O (sys4738)

The DS8K should be able to prohibit a LUN from being unmapped or deleted should there be any I/O. Although, there still could be a need to remove a LUN from a clustered server group (removing a server from the cluster). We would like the option to...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

XIV - Failure of command to unmap or delete a LUN identified with I/O (sys4737)

The XIV should be able to prohibit a LUN from being unmapped or deleted should there be any I/O. Although, there still could be a need to remove a LUN from a clustered server group (removing a server from the cluster). We would like the option to ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

SVC vSphere Plug-in supporting vdisk mirror

The vSpehere Plug-in for VMware should be enhance so that the admin using the plug-in will be able t specify more detailed properties when creating a vdisk on SVC. Especially the definition of vdisk mirroring is important because we use SVC Split ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration