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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    introduce "lsvolume" as a successor for "lsvdisk" to better meet today's architectural designs

    A few years ago, additional features such as e.g. Hyperswap have been introduced and required a better differentiation of types of volumes (a.k.a. vdisks). Hence new commands such as "mkvolume" or "lsvolumehostmap", "addvolumecopy" etc. had been i...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    add capability to filter for "empty" or "non-empty" fields in ls-command outputs

    The "-filtervalue" parameter allows to filter for particular strings or substrings when using "listing" commands such as lsvdisk, lshost etc. Currently, the "-filtervalue" parameter syntax does not offer the capability to filter for objects that h...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Policy Based Replication Recovery Volume Names

    We appreciate the simplicity of Policy Based Replication setup; however, we are in need of these two features to be added: 1. Allow custom naming of the recovery volumes. This is needed because we do not use the same system names between each site...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

    Once you remove FC ports from default portset64, you are limited to 4 members per Portset. Add the option to reset the portsets so all of the FC ports once again fall to portset64.

    By default, all FC ports are members of portset64. If a user start experimenting with using portsets and then decides to return to the default, they are not able to because once you remove ports from the default portset64, you can only add up to a...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Logging for when a host exceeds its Throttling limit

    Currently when a host exceeds it's Throttling limit there is no logging to inform us a host has hit its limit. With old XIV's and the A9K arrays, whenever a server hits its QOS limit, we would get an Event and could then investigate why a server w...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    add possibility to modify OpenShift PVC volumes attributes on IBM FlashSystems

    I would like to specify options like sync_rate or warning threshold in storage class when creating luns for OpenShift PVCs
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    SCSI Unmap at thin SVC volumes: recalculate after Unmap operation the reported value of actual written capacity

    If SCSI Unmap operations are executed at SVC thin provisioned volumes, then the SVC GUI reflects the related physical allocation reduction on a consistent way (please see column “Usable Capacity” in the “Pools” view of the SVC GUI). But the data v...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Expand TPI to more actions

    With the new TPI feature it is not possible to delete safeguarded snapshots. We would very much like the feature expanded to include operations such as deleting regular datastores in an attempt to prevent ransomware attacks. And before you say "ju...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Disable selected Alerts and prevent daily messages.

    We want the ability to disable 'recommended' Warning / Alerts from sending daily emails from selected events.
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Respect the TIER of the source volume when adding a volume copy to avoid performance impact

    When a client adds a volume copy to a vdisk, for example when converting a volume from Basic to HyperSwap (but other situations would also apply), the SVC SW does not respect the TIER of the source volume when allocating the extents of the volume ...
    about 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

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