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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Merge Partitions with different topology

    Request on customer feedback is the ability to perform a merge between two partitions running not in the same topology (or using identical settings). The inability to perform a merge of partitions with different topology (HA vs non-HA), impacting ...
    24 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Continue CIM support

    Applications like ServiceNow rely on CIM to retrieve data during discovery. Without CIM support (since version 8.6.1 and newer), new integrations (e.g. REST based) are required but not available. IBM already has/had the knowledge to provide a good...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Every Half year require to recommanded the LTS version reports

    Currently, we have multiple FlashSystem storage models, including the FS5K, FS7K, and FS9K series. Recently, IBM has been frequently announcing new versions of the IBM Spectrum Virtualization firmware. While we plan to perform the firmware upgrade...
    25 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Ability to modify or add a fcport of a host that is in a partition.

    Assuming PBHA and\or PBR: It may happen that a FC HBA of a host is replaced or that a HBA is redeployed. Or a host has already been created with 1 FC port. In these situations it is not possible to adjust this.
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

    Throttle/QoS for Volume Groups

    Hello, I would like to suggest an enhancement that could combine throttle and volume groups. Since we are moving to volume groups related to all aspects and is possible to define the RPO objective (of PBR) directly in the replication policy, one p...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    internal E-Mail client - add "sender address" and make authentication optional

    with one of the recent major Versions, Storage Virtualize introduced a completetly new e-mail client, which is a great addition to the previous implementation. In the new client we can have a custom port and support for encryption. Also authentica...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Ability to launch embedded command line shell from the GUI

    Most of the configuration work i do is performed via command line, it would be really useful to have the ability to launch embedded command line session/s from the service options menu, this way putty etc would not be required in a separate window...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Automatic Safegurded volumes to s3 or COS

    With safeguarded copy, we have a fantastic solution to provide an immutable copy of a volume. Rapid recovery is effective if the volume resides on the storage array, however, with ransoware taking 200+ days to detect, it is less likely this volume...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Future consideration

    PBHA: Update location on a set of hosts at the same time

    use case: the customer wants to be able to change the host location; with 180 hosts, it's not feasible to do it manually; request a possibility to filter hosts based on volume name and then multi-select to adapt; if that's not possible, filter on ...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    Check update recommendations against the configuration of the system before notifying the user

    Today the GUI for a FlashSystem/SVC will notify a user of a new code release of Storage Virtualize, but it does not take the specific configuration of the machine into consideration. Before you actually do an upgrade, the tool called CCU checker i...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

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