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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Add vdisk home tier option for provisioning policies.

Depending on the type of mdisk tiers in an easy tier enabled pool, newly created vdisks may have their extents placed on a non-preferred tier according to customer preference. For example, in a pool with tier0_flash and tier_nearline, new vdisk ca...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Include feature license entitlement information in CLI/REST API output (e.g. lslicense cmd) to distinguish between "all inclusive" and "traditional" license model

With the introduction of the FlashSystem models, the licensing for flashcopy, virtualization and remote copy requires no additional license anymore, but rather all these features are already included by default. This renders the license attributes...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Build a possibility to upgrade existing FCM4 arays created by <8.6.2 to the new functionality with ransomware detection

Many customer will install on LTS versions for stability and fast coming PTFs. We will now deliver FCM4 modules with better ransomware detection possibilities. But it will not possible to use this with arrays formatted <8.6.2 , what is a CD ver...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Extend PBR command set

Currently PBR has some "limited" set of command available, because the idea was to keep it simple and more automatic possible. Some customer which are exploring PBR, believe that having the chance to "STOP" and "START" a VG replication w/o necessa...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Automatic Reclaim for VMWare Volumes in Standard Pools

• Thick at host• Thin at storage• Space reclamation is not working on Standalone Storage Affects multiple clients; results in manual re-thinning (which is significant work) needed for accurate billing. This works automatically for virtualized pool...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Volume hot expansion support for PBHA solution

The client has two FS5200 and implemented PBHA, but is questioning that it is not possible to perform hot volume expansion, he requested documentation showing that it is on the roadmap.
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem enhanced scheduling

Customers like to schedule Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem with a daytime granularity. For example, they like to schedule some copies only during working hours or working days.The copies' refresh counting must be based only on the hours/days ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

volume formatting visibility

it would be great to display or at least inform the user that volumes are being formatted at creation or extension in the gui maybe allow to disable the format option in the gui
6 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Needs more information

Enable for storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time

Hello IBM-team,can you please enable for SVC storage pool utilizations three different threshold limits, which can set at the same time ?The goal is: generate warning events at three different storage pool utilization levels, which can individuall...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

increase total volume limit

the total limit today is Basic volumes per system: 15,864 we already hitting this limit with only 970 volumes. we have svc Stretched Mode and we are trying to do safeguard copy 7 generation snapshot and we are hitting the limit (1 snap every morni...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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