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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

    German translation of System should be System, not Systemberechtigung

    In Version 9.1 of the Flash System GUI in german the menu for system changed to 'Systemberechtigung' which simply is a wrong translation. Since years it was always System in english or in german, which every german native speaker understands. Syst...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Is a defect

    Increase limits for hosts and host ports per SVC IO-group / per system

    Can IBM increase for SVC clusters following v8.6.x limitations ? 1. Fibre Channel hosts per system 2. Fibre Channel hosts per I/O group 3. Fibre Channel host ports per I/O group 4. Number of Host mappable Volumes 5. Number of supported logins per ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Improvement of error logs and alerts to register warnings and evidence of error source

    Preventive node asserts/warmstart of Flashsystems occurs after the system detects a certain amount of errors. It would be interesting to see early warnings before the nodestart happens as well as clear indication of where these errors are coming f...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Functionality already exists

    In-transit encryption support for IBM FS9500

    In-transit encryption support for IBM FS9500. As per the Fidelity cybersecurity encryption standard, we need to enable the in-transit encryption end to end (host<-->storage). Please consider this enhancement on priority and make it available...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Allow choosing the snapshot name for a volume group

    Hello Development Team, One of our main FlashSystem platform customers in Brazil, the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3), believes that, for a more customized experience, it would be important to allow choosing the snapshot name when a snapshot policy ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

    SafeGuarded copy enforced retention

    Currently SGC can be removed just from restricted security administrator, protected by 2-Person integrity (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/flashsystem-9x00/9.1.0?topic=security-two-person-integrity). To further enhance SGC protection, the proposal is ...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Customer requesting support of TOTP/SAML

    So we will be moving to Ping, the date is still TBD. That said yes that will be of interest to us when we implement Ping.. But the gap on SSH access will still be a concern. As far as other products that do this. Cohesity has pretty extensive supp...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

    Reintroduce NVMe/FC Connectivity Support in IBM Block Storage CSI Driver

    The IBM Block Storage CSI driver previously supported NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) connectivity, however, this support was discontinued in newer versions of the driver. NVMe/FC is a critical protocol for clients running latency-sensitive work...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Planned for future release

    Allowing a host to be a member of multiple host_clusters

    Our strategic FlashSystem customers has requested an enhancement to improve flexibility in their environment. Today, a host can only be associated with a single host_cluster, which limits certain operational scenarios. The 1:1 restriction creates ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    Allow suppressing host offline alerts at host creation time

    At a recent code level, the FlashSystem began sending email alerts to our on-call any time a host was offline, which happens frequently due to patching or any kind of other maintenance. Based on feedback from an RFE, there was the option to suppre...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

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