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PINNED FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage
FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.
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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Power off enhancement for node/system

    By moving the Power Off feature to service, we dont run into the "issue" with only local "power on" possible. Here we face different admins who can power off a node in troubleshooting not really thinking about that it can only be powered on using ...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Coordinated snapshot of a single volume

    use case: customer uses PBHA but has multiple db's in one volume group (due to limit on number of VG's); CLI would be sufficient (since it's integrated in a script)
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    HTTPS support for Internal Proxy Server (not only HTTP).

    Because customers do not support HTTP protocol any more.
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    Allow the refreshfromsnapshot command to run when the target has snapshots and/or a snapshot policy.

    The refreshfromsnapshot command currently requires that you delete all snapshots and the snapshot policy of a target volume group before refreshing. This isn't ideal in the case when you are refreshing a volume group since you may need to restore ...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    More Verbose Update screen for Firmware Updates

    During the Flash System Update the status jumps from 2% to 50% with no updates in between or afterwards, a more verbose visuals would be great.
    4 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.
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Need support for Microsoft Authenticator as MFA

    Microsoft's MFA is a very popular MFA and with Microsoft's solution compassing all enterprise needs, even MFA capability are being adopted as standard in large clients. Hence this integration is being asked from 18 months. Please consider it on pr...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Needs more information

    Relaxing IP quorums placement dependency on the Ethernet ports where the service IP address is assigned.

    Currently, IP quorums for HyperSwap as well as Policy-Based HA configurations need to be connected to the systems' Ethernet port where the service IP address is being assigned. This current design of placing IP quorums prohibits having a secure ne...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Planned for future release

    FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage

    FlashSystems supported by Nutanix as external storage like Dell and Pure will allow us to compete against these companies in those environment.
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

    Warning when deleting volumes they still have snapshots associated with them.

    Within the FlashSystem OS, when you delete a volume, the volume does not go away and remains in the system if there is a snapshot(s) associated with it. The OS does not tell you that it cannot delete, but simply places the volume in a delete(ing) ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 7 Future consideration

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