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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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

Alternate Syslog ports in SVC

We're using a Splunk environment that requires the Splunk server to listen on a different port per client. To use the Syslog processing capabilities, we need to use a non-default port for Syslog on the SVC configuration side.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

enhanced stretch cluster with only one Iogrp

Add process that a single node is able to update both sites in an enhanced stretched Cluster.This would enable support for an enhanced stretched cluster with only one IOgrp.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

iPad/Android App for SVC monitoring

Consider creating an iPad / Android application which would have a configurable dashboard for SVC's. Be able to show things like overall capacity, performance, node status, etc.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

overflow mdisks

1) If an mdiskgroup becomes full, have an option to automatically import unassigned mdisks into the group to prevent a write failure. 2)Secondly, with compression on back end storage (V7000) if a write failure is detected (perhaps back end system ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

IBM SVC mkvdisk command line

Please make autoexpand the default for SpaceEfficient vdisk creation in the command line
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

IBM SVC lsuser enhancement

Please add the following data fields to the lsuser command: data/time last logged inip address from which the login occurred
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Ability for SVC node to boot directly into "service mode"

Ability to boot straight into "service mode" instead of having to boot into normal operational mode and then booting into service mode afterwards.This would apply to nodes that have suffered some type of unrecoverable fault that does not render th...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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