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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...
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Option to keep main menu to the left open when clicking on a sub-option

I often move between different menus in GUI and I find it time-consuming and irritating that the menu is closed every time I click on a sub-option. I've tried both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox to see if different browsers behaved differently,...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

Dynamic grain size for point in time copy.

Performance of small block applications like EPIC health record systems, reduce write amplification.
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Few IP Quorum ideas: Appliance, updated OS/Java matrix, IP Quorum application updates

1. Appliance. It would be much easier to deploy IP Qourum as an appliance (for example OVF) or an ISO with simple wizard to install full OS and application. Currently end user gets JAR file which has to be deployed somewhere and services (Windows ...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Provide structured FS9 syslog messages for easy searching and sorting much like zOS syslog

The current syslog is a collection of information with no specific message numbers or format. It's difficult to locate specific information.
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

The run fix procedure schould check for all equal errors in one step

ease of use, faster checks. If we update the backend systems behind a SVC or flash system the recovery procedure does a cleanup only for one item at a time, so if you updated a bunch of systems behind a SVC, you have a minimum of two events in the...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Show Capacity Savings Total Provisioned Line only for vDisk assigned to a host

On the FS or SVC Dashboard the total provision value is the value in all vDisk. If attached behind a SVC, there are normally provisioned but not assigned vDisk to fill up the entire space. That leads into a missunderstanding on the dashboard.
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Standardize certificate management on DS8 device

The DS8 currently uses two different methods to manage digital certificates: 1. https server certificate (CSR generated and import of signed cert) 2. Syslog secure forwarding certificate (import of private key and certificate components generated ...
3 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

gpfs.snap command and --sosreport option

If the gpfs.snap command contains the "--sosreport" option, you must be able to specify the node that collects the sosreport. But it doesn't seem to have that feature at the moment. (GPFS 5.2.2.0) When using the "--sosreport" option, could you pro...
3 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Under review

Pause option to resume automatic upgrade in GUI post node service for hardware issues

When a node is serviced for hardware issues during upgrade process, the previously selected option of pause after each node is ignored and rather it goes with fully automated upgrade process without any pause if resumed the upgrade. Basically, we ...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Policy Based Replication - Need a way to monitor how far out of sync destination volumes are from the source volumes for different Volume Groups

When adding IBM flashsystems to a monitoring tool (we have Zabbix), it can see the Volume Groups made on the flashsystems, but it is not able to get any information that shows how far out of sync the destination volumes are from the source volumes...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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