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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Cluster management address should not move after reboot

If only one cannister has an active IP network connection (due to external failure or some other issue) the management IP address (cluster address) should not "float" to the cannister that has no active connection. It should stay locked to the one...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

New Feature Required for SVC Replication

SVC replication problems have been affecting the performance of production environment of Isbank for a long time. The SVC environment virtualized 6PB of data where 300TB capacity is replicated to BCRS site. There's an urgent requirement that we ne...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

V7000 Environmentals

We have a requirement to record real environmental statistics (i.e power,cooling etc). as a whole for the array
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

V7000 Copy on Write

Would like V7000 functionality to have the ability to change a relation in full mode to a copy on write relationship
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Health pod should show loss of redundancy

If there is a loss of redundancy for single point of failure scenarios, this should be reported in the "Health Pod"
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Get ‘storage reclaim' report to report volumes with very low / no I/O usage

During a user study with internal IBM GTS we found that it would be useful to get ‘storage reclaim' report to report volumes with very low / no I/O usage.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Add SSD 2.5 inch support in V7000 x12 frames

Make it possible to install a 2.5 inch SSD to be used in a x12 V7000 frame. This upgrade could exist of a bracket to fit a 2.5 inch SSD in a 3.5 inch drive slot.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

ICStore integrated in SVC

Requested by Customer Daimler and JCI we need an additional tier in the SVC to move data to the cloud
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

migrate vdisk to tier

We want to be able to pin a vdisk's extents to a particular tier but retain easy tier 3's performance-based balancing within the tier.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

SVC to support native 6 and 8 HBA configurations

I have many future installations needing to have SVC nativity to support 6 and 8 HBA configurations without needing to create multiple Host entries for the same host. Today if i assign HBA to Node 1 port 1, HBA 2 node 2 Port2, HBA 3 Node1 Port 3.....
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration