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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

make applydrivesoftware site-aware

'applydrivesoftware' should honour site-awareness, in particular in HyperSwap topologies and change its default "all in one shot" behaviour to a "paced site by site" one.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Automatically use the same preferred node of source volumes for snapshot target volumes.

Automatically use the same preferred node for target snapshot volumes of source snapshot volumes.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Expansion of volumes with a FlashCopy mapping

Currently you have to stop and delete the FlashCopy mapping, if like to expand the volume capacity! Today we run a cirtial process to replace a volume in the LVM / ZFS-Pool to expand capacity. After the process is finished, Easy-Tier must learn an...
over 9 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Storewize syslog server for Audit log

We would like to have the option of the Audit log to be sent to a syslog server.The following are some events that are of interest:Create user, delete user, change privilege user, change password, successful login, failed login known user, failed ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Tuning off Alert definition : remove 2017

Hi, From SVC 8.6.1.0 and 8.7.0.0 an new Alerte is noticed in Events Log : "2017 - One or more configured hosts are offline" So users receive by mail each time a 'host' become OFFLINE. We are using 'Flash Copy' every day so we are starting ang stop...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Please provide OS support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for IBM Block Storage CSI driver

IBM Block Storage CSI driver already provided for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS but this version is end of life april 2025. We and our customers plan to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in the next time.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Support for IP based Static Routing (in connection with iSCSI volume/host mappings)

At the definition of the iSCSI interface/addresse in the SVC - it is currently at an Eth port only possible to define ONE Standard Gateway. But if the IP network cannot be reached over this one Standard Gateway for any reason, then there must be a...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

display FC Port RX/TX power metrics in CLI and/or GUI (instead of livedump only)

When troubleshooting bad behaving (storage-) ports or FC links in a SAN environment, the corresponding RX/TX power/attenuation metrics of each SFP at both ends of the FC link are a very good indicator to determine which of the typical 3 involved c...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Storwize - simplify flashcopy restoration process

Currently in the event of restoring a volume using a flashcopy it is required for a reverse flashcopy to be created and then the new mapping to be started with the -restore flag. This requires a degree of understanding of how the technology that i...
over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered

Chane email and LDAP server configuration from IP to hostname

Email and LDAP servers can only be configured by entering their IP address. In case of server lifecycle, connection fails.If hostnames (and aliases) could be configured, this wouldn't be a problem anymore.Applies to all SVC and Storwize products.
about 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Delivered