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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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storwize remote mirror bitmap space in hyperswap

in a hyperswap environment with heavy overprovisioning there is a lack of bitmap space for remote copy operations inside the hyperswap. we can extent flashcopy bitmap space to 2GB, but remotecopy is shared with other features an limited to 552 MB ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

SVC ALUA support for VMware

SVC does support the SCSI ALUA standard as well as VMware. VMware has a dedicated Storage Array Type Plug-in (SATP) for using ALUA called VMW_SATP_ALUA SATP. This SATP needs to support SVC just like it supports other IBM storage (e.g. DS3000, DS40...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Enable Audit log to be sent to a syslog server

Enable Audit log to be sent to a syslog server
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add more characters in MetroMirror name

Name of Mirror Relationship and Consistencygroup allows only 15 digits
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add DST flag to timestamp in Perfstat files

A small but helpful cleanup change: Could you please add the Daylight Savings Time (DST) Flag to the Timestamp in all 4 performance statistics filetypes (Nv, Nm, Nd, Nn)? End of October countries like Germany (TimeZone 360) have a negative clock c...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

Support for more host site WWPN per I/O Group for IBM San Volume Controller

The customer has exhausted the WWPN hot ports inside an IBM SVC I/O Group, which his 2048. We want to know if it would be feasible to increase this value or if this is something that is technically not feasible.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC - Need to enable DNS support for LDAP server configuration

We use LDAP to manage authentication to our SVC arrays. The SVC however does not support using DNS names to define the LDAP server, we are forced to specify IP addresses for 2-3 LDAP servers. This is a problem as in our dynamic environment, the IP...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Ability to move a volume's iogrp if still replicated

At present if a volume is mapped to a replication relationship then the non disruptive volume move feature can't be used as the relationship must be removed prior to moving the caching iogrp for both the master and the auxillary volume. It would b...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Minimizing IO delays when a node in a SVC cluster goes down or restarts.

System: The customer's large production systems where SVC is used Actor: Users requesting to improve the quality of SVC SVC is used to manage the customer's large storage systems which are used by many mission critical servers. To minimize IO fail...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC STAT Tool should show volume and pool names

Currently the IBM Storage Tier Advisor Tool does show volume IDs and pool ID instead of human readable names, In addition those IDs are shown in hex format which is nowhere used in the SVC CLI or GUI. The tools seems to be created/targeted at DS80...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 7 Delivered

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