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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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SVC Vdisk Migration Refusal Stopgap

SUBMITTER SECTIONFIT Number: MR1204071911User Marketing Field Requirement Number: MR1204071911Title: SVC Vdisk Migration Refusal StopgapSubmitted By: Wesley Wempner/Dallas/IBMOriginators Area: pSS CenterFPOC: Barbara McDonald/San Jose/IBM Erika Da...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Allow SVC to recover backend unused thin vdisk

Kohls has found that when you run 'create vdisk' they have the option to 'format' the vdisk which puts all 'zeros' on volume,backend disk subsystem then ignores the zeros.Kohls uses some 3Par backend storage which is 'thin' aware. To fully recover...
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

SVC - Retention Based Logging (SYS4986)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Thin Provisioning De-allocation

SVC should understand the SCSI umap/write same standard(s) to deallocated space for vdisks if a server deletes filesIn addition SVC should issue those commands to the mdisks, so that the backend storage is more aware of actually used capacity
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Name change SVC "Cluster error" to "Cluster event"

Every SVC event raises a "Cluster error" on the SVC node display which confuses the people who don´t know that the shown error is not critical (most of the time). Changing that to a "SVC cluster event" would be in line with the so called event log...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Additional data security needed

After a cache destage from the internal hard drive to the backend storage, have the SVC node overwrite that cache dump area of disk with zeroes.
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Granular GUI Response Time Display

The FlashSystem GUI currently displays latency graphs and averages in single digit milliseconds. Given that FlashCore modules are typically performing at a sub-millisecond response time, it would be more effective to display in thousandths of mill...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize: increase replication relationships

A large GTS client (with over 13PB of flash in production) has multiple production sites replicating to a single DR site. The 3:1 relationship limit makes makes managing the DR site very complex.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Optimize Flashcopy Mappings to be on the same preferred node

Comment we got from level 3 SVC is that Flashcopy volumes preferred node do not all match source volume preferred node.Half the Flashcopy volumes are running on the opposite node from the source.So Source volume on node 1 -> Flashcopy to volume...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Flash Remote Copy Volume Progress

We use Remote Copy to keep two Flash 5000s in sync. Occasionally there is a network disruption or similar issue that slows the progress. To see the progress we need to use putty and run the command lsrcrelationship. It would be very useful to have...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

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