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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Improvement of error logs and alerts to register warnings and evidence of error source

Preventive node asserts/warmstart of Flashsystems occurs after the system detects a certain amount of errors. It would be interesting to see early warnings before the nodestart happens as well as clear indication of where these errors are coming f...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Ability to launch embedded command line shell from the GUI

Most of the configuration work i do is performed via command line, it would be really useful to have the ability to launch embedded command line session/s from the service options menu, this way putty etc would not be required in a separate window...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Improve FlashSystem grid abilities for multiple systems Code Upgrade in one single interface.

Improve the capabilities of the Flashsystem Grid by allowing the code and drive firmware updates of all storage systems to be done through a single management interface, instead of having to open the management interfaces of each Storage that belo...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Improve Flashsystem grid abilities for daily operations (vdisk, host connections, lun masking, etc).

We have customers requesting that our Grid solution allow them to manage, administer and configure the functionalities and components of the Storages through a single management interface, without the need to open a specific management interface f...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Snapshot and VG Snapshot Transparency to Expert Admins

Currently the VG snapshots and vDisk snapshots are intransparent on the UI and cmd for expert administrators. Snapshot Disk are hidden and can only made visible with certain commands on the cmd but not on the UI. Which Snapshot rely on which other...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Adding NVMe support for ESXi and Windows HyperV to Policy Based High Availability (PBHA)

Clients want to exploit the host performance advantages of NVMe compared to traditional SCSI over Fibre Channel.
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Once you remove FC ports from default portset64, you are limited to 4 members per Portset. Add the option to reset the portsets so all of the FC ports once again fall to portset64.

By default, all FC ports are members of portset64. If a user start experimenting with using portsets and then decides to return to the default, they are not able to because once you remove ports from the default portset64, you can only add up to a...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Continue CIM support

Applications like ServiceNow rely on CIM to retrieve data during discovery. Without CIM support (since version 8.6.1 and newer), new integrations (e.g. REST based) are required but not available. IBM already has/had the knowledge to provide a good...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

add possibility to modify OpenShift PVC volumes attributes on IBM FlashSystems

I would like to specify options like sync_rate or warning threshold in storage class when creating luns for OpenShift PVCs
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Proxmox plugin for FlashSystem

Plugin to improve current interop limitations with Proxmox (clustered host access, maintain VM snapshot ability, thin provisioning)
6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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