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IBM Spectrum Control

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Consider automatic column width in tables based on actual data

When a tabular data is first viewed within Spectrum Control, Sometimes the column is much too narrow to display the actual data and sometimes many columns are too narrow and time must be invested adjusting the column widths to make the data readab...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

Refresh support for HPE 3PAR/StorServ

Update current support for HPE 3PAR (StorServ) to support devices with newer firmware/SMI-S agents
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Planned for future release

Spectrum Contol and Dell/EMC VPLEX

We would like to Spectrum Control to monitor Dell/EMC VPLEX. We use SC to monitor most of our IBM Storwize/SVC installations. We use performance monitor to look at performance statistics and array monitoring for alerting, reporting and billing. We...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

authentication and authorization mechanism for application groups and general groups

Customer is India's Largest MSP and deployed A9000R with Spectrum Control. Customer requires functionalities which is part of Public Cloud Feature.(i) Managing Domains of A9000 (HSM) through Spectrum Control as single Console would help them to ma...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Request to develop VSC ability to blacklist SVC ports when automatic zoning. Prevent usage of SVC internode ports.

VSC is not able to restrict zoning for SVC ports dedicated for internode communication.The reason of this request is to ask IBM to develop some blacklist option for VSC automatic zoning in order to block the use of some selected SVC ports.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Not under consideration

Improve Host reporting in Spectrum Control

Spectrum Control has some ability to report hosts that are making use of resources, such as volumes on a Spectrum Virtualize pool. But this reporting is not complete.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

SVC/Spectrum Control iSCSI monitoring

Client wishes to have the ability to monitor performance of their iSCSI connections on SVC using Spectrum Control as they do today on their FC connections. They feel that the underlying technology is there, but do not understand why they cannot ha...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 5 Planned for future release

Spectrum Control - Add a capacity planning modeling function

IBM Spectrum Control uses capacity information to provide an estimated zero capacity date. I would request that this same information be utilized to allow customers to perform capacity planning modeling. Current workaround: Perform this manually u...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Control: View Easy Tier Load Setting

Need the ability to see what the Easy Tier Load value is for SVC mdsisk.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

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