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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

show total host fibre port count

2048 is the hard limit for Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group. It would be useful if the system could show how many ports are defined and in use in the fibre channel connectivity panel. Thanks
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Create a hidden command to allow a change for the number of concurrent SSH connections to SVC/FlashSystem

The current limits of SVC/FlashSystem software to the admin connection limit the ability to run ansible playbooks and/or ssh automations during cluster migrations and can limit the ability to automate failovers of a large number of systems during ...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Allow Replication Partnership via secondary management interface

We run a MS and need to onboard customers, sometimes, via replication.Our primary mgmt interface is used for internal replication and is completely out of bound from customer networks. Allowing the establishment of replication partnerships over th...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Add auto resize of target volumes when Refreshing a volume group

Currently if a VG refresh has a target volume that has been expanded, you have to manually shrink it before refreshing it from the source again. If we've already decided to refresh the volume, we don't expect any data to remain, so having to alway...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Allow suppressing host offline alerts at host creation time

At a recent code level, the FlashSystem began sending email alerts to our on-call any time a host was offline, which happens frequently due to patching or any kind of other maintenance. Based on feedback from an RFE, there was the option to suppre...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Option to choose pop-up window placement for optimized experience

I think it would be easier to focus on and work with the GUI if different kinds of menus and clickable links would be at the same place (and stop moving around on screen) even when changing between different "views". For example, when looking at t...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Option to keep main menu to the left open when clicking on a sub-option

I often move between different menus in GUI and I find it time-consuming and irritating that the menu is closed every time I click on a sub-option. I've tried both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox to see if different browsers behaved differently,...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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