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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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UTC Timezone selection in Storwize GUI at initial install wizard.

At initial V7000 Wizard System Setup (at initial login of install) the Task "Date and Time" where you can enter manual or NTP, appears that UTC Timezone is not selectable from the pull-down menu choices.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

synchronization timestamp of eventlog and auditlog ( IC89861 acceleration)

System : Storwise V7000 codeActor : User needing function enhancement Storwise V7000 has two different timestamps in Flashcopy related services　logs, which are cluster time and node unique time. Cluster timer can be synchronized by NTP protocol, h...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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

V5000 GUI change

Per my client: Please add an option in the V5000 GUI that allows a Storage admin to change the link speed from 10Gbps to 1 Gbps.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 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"
almost 11 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.
almost 11 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

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