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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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SVC Flash as Cache

Customer requests that SVC be able to use flash drives as cache.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Enable to set threshold when error drive is offline on V7000

On customer's V7000, a disk drive reported transient errors "Drive medium error" (ErrorCode=1321) for several day, and finally turned to offline.Before turned to offline, disk I/O delayed, so customer's application got error and end user couldn't ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

CASE ID: RCMS 0193FP7,866 - V7000 (TBW) What is the TBW (Total Bytes Written) Value on the SSD on V7000

We require assistance for the V7000 Enterprise SSD MLC devices e.g V7000 - 2076 3504 - 300GB 2.5 SSD (E-MLC) SAS Is there a GUI or command line sequence which will show the current value of TBW for a given device. Otherwise we have no idea of when...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Possible data loss

The customer, don't understand why a 1691 error, with possibledata loss, only should be reported as a Warning and not as an Error.Think this is a major design failure and should be corrected in a future code level...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

SVC - Storage Pool alerting

Ability to set an alert level for maximum IO Rate or MB Rate for a configured mdisk Pool
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

SVC / Storwize Family Code DDM auto add

Top Global Air line would like to see less interaction required when replaced a failed DDM. In essence, take out some of the DMP and manual steps of adding in replacement drives to make the V7000 subsystem more of Tier 1 offering.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Need to be able to configure Raid with 3+P within the GUI interface for all storage on the V7000. (SYS4957)

Need to be able to configure Raid with 3+P within the GUI interface for all storage on the V7000.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

V7000 to have options to better handle battery recondition issues

The customer requirement is to ask adding options to bypass battery failure, do not shut down V7000Description: When aggregated battery power less than 37%, V7000 will gracefully shut down to avoid accidentally cache data lost. But this will lead ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Isbank need for Triton on SVC

Isbank, which is one of the biggest SVC customers in Turkey (approximately 6PB) favors the "EasyTier Server" technology (IBM name Triton) which is valid only for DS8870 with AiX on System-p.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Client side knowledge of mpools for SVC mdisks.

This request was originally submitted in FITS via MR0317085124 in 2008. It was rejected due to the assignee not knowing who to send it to. It was resubmitted in 2013 via MR0829133927. I've now been told that this should be submitted via this tool ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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