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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Add volume and host tagging and notes capability

It would be helpful to have the ability to apply filter-able tags and/or notes to volumes and hosts. VMware has this capability and it is useful for automation as well as organization. Tags can be used by automation to find a collection of objects...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

support volume groups in ownership groups

When using ownership groups to fence off volumes/vdisks and the associated hosts and mappings there's currently no support for volume groups which are in turn required to use policy-based replication for such vdisks. As we want to replicate vdisks...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Capability to throttle vdisk by defining a goal response time (possibility to delay an I/O to a value)

There are an increasing number of clients asking for the functionality of specifying the goal response time of a volume (vdisk), so that it doesn't go faster than this goal and does not use resources that could be used by other volumes.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Background Processes not visible in SVC-GUI (Code Level 8.7.0.1)

Hello Team. A few weeks ago we upgraded one of our SVC's from code level 8.6.0.3 to 8.7.0.1. Since we are on 8.7.0.1 (also happened with code level 8.6.0.3) we are wondering why no background processes (such like vdisk mirroring, volume formatting...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

An option to edit the autorefresh timer of the FlashSystem GUI

The new FlashSystem GUI has a autorefresh function that is not editable.So if you are looking at the Volumes screen for example after a few minutes the screen refreshes and you are back at the top even though you selected a volume in the middle of...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Is a defect

Ability to manually exclude specific cipher suites for SSH

We've been chatting to support desk about the support for disabling/excluding specific cipher suites for SSH. As geographical perspectives (and thus necessities) could potentially differ from one another, we'd like to opt for a feature request, fo...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Safeguarded Copy function for latest FlashSystem 5000 products.

With the introduction of Safeguarded Copy Function, it was decided that a FlashSystem 5100 or greater is required to support this new functionality. Since many Flashsystem were sold to Small and Medium businesses or institutions, we are wondering ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Policy Based Replication (aka PBR) is required at version 8.7.0.1, and we would like it to be adjusted as an option vs requiring the undoing of Global Mirror Change Volumes (aka GMCV) replication.

MEDHOST is currently configured with an SVC that has 9 nodes (one being a hot spare) and 4 IO groups clustered as a single storage pool. We are currently experiencing the BEST performance and reliability using this configuration since we have been...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

Policy Based replication - Keep the target volume mapped to the host when the source volume is removed from the source volume group

On Policy Based replication, When I remove a volume from the source volume group, it should only remove the volume from the target volume group, the volume should not get removed from the array or mapping. It should still be available under the ho...
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring FlashSystem / Spectrum Virtualize with Prometheus and Grafana

An increasing number of our clients is using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor their infrastructure. For Spectrum Virtualize-based storage only the following exporter is available on GitHub: https://github.com/IBM/spectrum-virtualize-exporter Ther...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release