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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Idea for Flash Grid Promote (with only one flash system)

    As in previous versions, please bring back the "in this same controller housing" feature that was available when setting up partnership, as it allows practice and demonstration of PBR settings in a single controller housing, which is useful for pr...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Balance workload over ISLs based on latency, not throughput

    In ESC when there is congestion on the ISLs in one fabric, SVC should be able to detect the increasing latency on the operations (mainly writes), and then send them through the healthy fabric. Current behavior is to balance the traffic between the...
    over 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Vdisk mirror – out of sync condition / reporting

    It would be a great improvement to show stale copies immediately in the Event Log, send as an SNMP trap or for example an email notification.
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    V7000 / V3700 / SVC GUI Based Flashcopy Scheduler

    Our customers are requesting an enhancement to the V7000 to include a basic scheduler of flashcopies per LUN. EMC and Netapp both offer this compelling feature. Smaller shops do not want to purchase or deal with the complexity of Tivoli Flashcopy ...
    almost 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

    Movement of Config node without node reboot

    Ties into RFE 114313.command structure or flag that can be used to set the next targeted config node, then be able to execute the movement of the config node without requiring a reboot of the current config node.
    almost 8 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Extend valid settings for option "etfcmoverallocationmax" on mk|chmdiskgrp commands and its applicability in general.

    Currently the option "etfcmoverallocationmax" offers four valid settings "100,200,300,400" to set the maximum over-allocation which Easy Tier can migrate onto FCM arrays, when the array is used as the top tier in a multi-tier pool. It currently wo...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Preventive Function to corrupt a volume as flashcopy target if the volume is scsi reserved

    If a volume is mounted and used by a OS and V7000 execute flashcopy to the volume as target, the volume is corrupted by occurring inconsistent with filesystem on the OS. The our client strongly request an optional function to prevent the situation...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    Increase online (in memory) audit log entries

    Increase number of audit log entries visible in the GUI.In the SVC code the number of online (GUI) visible audit log entries has been limited to 500. (I cannot remember in which code this started as this has been higher before, at the moment we ar...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Flashsystem : Behavior when the management IP port cable is disconnected

    If the cable of the node with the management IP on the side with the management IP is disconnected, there will be no SNMP signal or syslog signal forever.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    EasyTier in multi tier pools - selsction of tiers participating in a single volume

    i would like to propose the ability to subselsct the tier level a specific volume is participating in. when having 3 storage tier within one pool, clients would like to priorize some volume e.g. have some volume use flash and enterprise, but other...
    over 10 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

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