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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Compatibility matrix of Spectrum Virtualize - Automated process.

Customers always have a hard time to check the compatibility matrix each time they need to upgrade version of Spectrum Virtualize. They need to do extensive manual workload to check the compatibility and they always complaining about it. Also cust...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

SRA snapshots require meaningful name

snapshots created during failover/failback are being created without any decent naming convention (vdisk0 vdisk1 etc.. as vdisk names ; fcmap0 fcmap1 etc.. as fcmap names ; fcconsistgrp0 fcconsistgrp1 etc.. as consistency group names) > these s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

SCSI Unmap at thin SVC volumes: recalculate after Unmap operation the reported value of actual written capacity

If SCSI Unmap operations are executed at SVC thin provisioned volumes, then the SVC GUI reflects the related physical allocation reduction on a consistent way (please see column “Usable Capacity” in the “Pools” view of the SVC GUI). But the data v...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Error/warning on degraded hosts

Currently when a host is in degraded state, the events are not showing any warning or error. Hence there is a chance that these degraded hosts goes unnoticed. So I suggest to have a warning/error to be reported in the events for any host went into...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Capability to generate a "application consistent" snapshot on a secondary when replicating data with new policy-based async replication

Scenario is quite simple: client wants to generate an "application consistent" snapshot on his secondary site while data are replicated using new policy-based replication. To do so client will freeze I/O on primary site once application is in a co...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

Host across ownership group

Customer replaced A9000 with FS9500 and runs into this issue: on SpVirt, the host object is part of the ownership group (tenant domain) (<> A9 did not consider hosts as part of the 'tenancy domain'). There is a manual workaround (chghostcl c...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Management interface bond (port-channel)

For environments that rely heavily on a working management interface (automation, flashcopy scripts) would benfit greatly with the ability to bond two of the ethernet ports for management. If common that the upstream switch can run a port-channel ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

CLI to set Restful API requests limits

As for now request limits for restful API are hard-coded in SVC. See table in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sanvolumecontroller/8.5.x?topic=svc-spectrum-virtualize-restful-api. For some use cases it makes sense to set the limits higher to enable aut...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Use Volume Groups for host mapping

Volume groups have become more and more useful for new functions such as SafeGuarded Copy, Snapshows 2.0 and regently Policy Based Reprication. While some customers my not be able to utilize the new functions new or when they start with a new flas...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

See current system time in Gui when NTP is set.

Would like to be able to see the current system time in Gui on the NTP Tab, even if we have the possibility to use svqueryclock in Cli. Will make PD easier when comparing the time in tasks and events.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

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