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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

Enclosure-loss protection on Storwize V7000

Please implement contra-rotating SAS cabling for connections from Controller enclosure to drive enclosures. This gives additional failure protection and avoids enclosure interdependencies caused by "daisy-chain" connections. DS4000 / DS5000 custom...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

SVC planned maintenance for vdisk mirror

My customer is planning to use SVC stretched cluster as a high available solution for the two data centers that are located close to each other (less than 1 km distance). They are asking for a function to "suspend" the vdisk mirror on one side wit...
about 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

SVC planned maintenance for vdisk mirror

My customer is planning to use SVC stretched cluster as a high available solution for the two data centers that are located close to each other (less than 1 km distance). They are asking for a function to "suspend" the vdisk mirror on one side wit...
about 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

Can a mechanism or a configuration table be built to show how large of an MDisk % is going to be large enough to populate all

Can a mechanism or a configuration table be built to show how large of an MDisk % is going to be large enough to populate all the MDisks (IE 2% is not large enough to be spread across 3 MDisks in the pool it would be spread to only 2. This would b...
about 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

Can a mechanism be built to better add / manage users from the V7000 into Microsoft AD?

Requesting a mechanism be built to better add / manage users from the V7000 into Microsoft AD?
about 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

mechanism be built to change the global V7000 values (TP grain size instead of each volume at a time) or all performance rela

Requesting a mechanism be built to change the global V7000 values (TP grain size instead of each volume at a time) or all performance related data)?
about 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

parallel threads of volume / vdisk migation in SVC GUI

It is not possible to change the amount of threads for vdisk / volume migrations between mdiskgroups / pools inside the SVC GUI version 6.x
about 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

Global Mirror with SEV target disks

SVC should "reset" the volume space to the specified real capacity when a volume is used as a target volume in a GM relationship, like SVC is doing this for flash copy: when you Flash Copy data to a SEV target disk SVC "resets" the target disk, so...
over 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

Additional data security needed

After a cache destage from the internal hard drive to the backend storage, have the SVC node overwrite that cache dump area of disk with zeroes.
over 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

SVC Command Serialization (SYS4580)

Optional Serialization of Commands to aid in automation.For example, being able to have a migrateextent complete before returning would greatly simplify automation of migration, as this single thread approach saves a lot of logic.
over 14 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Not under consideration

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