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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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V7000 Hyperswap reduced FC connectivity between Sites

The V7000 with Hyperswap configuration with no ISL. Two V7K enclosure implemented for two site with NO ISL configuration. Two site has been connected each other via 4 FC link . The connectivity is limited with 4 FC cables instead of 8 FC cables an...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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.
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

"-all"-Flag for "repairvdiskcopy -resync"

Enhancement for the command "repairvdisk -resync" with a flag "-all", which automatically includes all vdiskcopies which are not in sync.
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

SpecV queue full condition not being properly retried/recovered by MSDSM

Ian Mac Quarrie and Bill Passingham are aware of this issue at GEICO. Spectrum Virtualize in combination with Windows MSDSM is currently experiencing issues when Spectrum Virtualize hits a queue full condition. This condition needs to be fixed.Bil...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

SVC Auto balance

We have 4 IO/Groups under one stretched cluster ; we experienced some performance issues and the support team advised to migrate LUNs between the nodes; this is unfeasible as administrator can never balance the nodes manually , SVC should be aware...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Global Mirror with SEV target disks

SVC should "reset" the volume space to the specified real capacity when a volume is used as a target volume in a GM relationship, like SVC is doing this for flash copy: when you Flash Copy data to a SEV target disk SVC "resets" the target disk, so...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

V9000 performance testing during Snapshot or incremental FlashCopy for Nifty

We hope either of the following item:Improvement V9000 FlashCopy functionReason for Too large performance impact when take V9000 Snapshot or incremental FlashCopyPerformance degradation over 90% when take Snapshot.Performance degradation over 60% ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

TiB conversion to TB in Spectrum Virtualize

Provide the ability to convert binary (TiB) capacity to decimal (TB) capacity in Spectrum Virtualize and any other product using the same software stack - IE V9000. It could be a setting in the GUI or a parameter in the CLI.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

lsdumps only displays 500 files

The 'lsdumps' command only lists 500 files.The number of files output is limited internally. Each file is accompanied by a timestamp, and the names of the files along with their timestamps must fit within 20KB. The files selected to list in this c...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

V7000 Amber LED warning light turning off before disk has been replaced

Issue we are seeing with the V7000 is that the Amber LED warning light turning off before disk has been replaced.
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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