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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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ARP Request for SVC at Daimler

ARP Request for SVC at Daimler. With this new feature we will be able to ensure high-availability and product stability in Daimler's Storage environment.
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

volume going offline

We feel that a lun going offline should be an error, so we can easily get paged on it. right now a space efficent volume going off line when full should be a error not a warn error codes 060001 to 060006
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

v7000 iSCSI LACP support

Customer in RFP are requesting LACP on iSCSI support.At this time, this is not possible on v7000 in iSCSI
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Configurable Read Preference Policy for VDisk Mirrors

Add an option when creating VDisk/Volume mirrors to set the Read preference policy for the mirror. By default the read preference is set to VDisk/Volume copy_id 0. Would like to have an option added to VDisk mirror creation commands that allows fo...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Provide access state for a mdisk from all accessiable path

The customer hopes SVC provides access state for a mdisk from all accessiable path, currently this is not provided by SVC.
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Check for Real-time Compression health in SAN Volume Controller Software Upgrade Test Utility

Upgraded from 7.2.0.5 to 7.2.0.8 when 2nd node hit 1862 error. Single RtC volume went offline. Same volume affected from last PMR 68963,122 on 5/5/14. IBM advised customer to remove host disk mapping associated w/ vol 66 and run repairsevdisk copy...
about 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Enable mirroring on a managed disk level

An extension is requested, such that we could enable mirroring on a managed disk level. This would allow an administrator to select that two managed disks should be mirrored, resulting in a new mirrored managed disk object to be included in a give...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Check for "detected hardware needing activation" to the SAN Volume Controller Software Upgrade Test Utility

Sprint. We recently performed an SVC upgrade from 6304 to 7109 on CG8 nodes. We overlooked the fact that these nodes had the 10G cards in them. As the upgrade was completing we started receiving the node error 841 for detected hardware needing act...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

List in GUI vdisk-view allocated capacity of all 3 tiers of a 3-tier-hybrid pool even one tier is not allocated

Can you list in the GUI's vdisk-view the allocated capacity value of all 3 tiers of a 3-tier-hybrid pool any time even one tier is not allocated ? In example:a volume contents of 100 extents (1GB), is assigned to 3-tier-pool10 GB Flash Tier alloca...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

write priority selectable via GUI

Write priority should be selectable each time a new vdisk ist created via GUI or should be pre-defined e.g.via global settings (if possible).Most SVC installations (99%) are stretched cluster and in my opinion it is most important to select the ri...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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