IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    Ability to set a low water mark used capacity threshold for flash/SCM tiers.

    Hypothetical Use case: Easy tier hybrid pool with tier 0 flash, tier 1 flash and tier nearline. In the current scenario, when a lot of cold data resides on tier 1, these extents will be migrated to nearline regardless of whether tier 1 extents are...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Add product_id to display on gui Pools, Internal storage

    I am looking at this site: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/873170 There is nothing there to tie my drives on my FS7300 running 8.5.0.10 to anything on that site. I am trying to use the GUI. I go into Pools, Internal Storage. I even tried to...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Hyperswap with FS9200 : prefered site selection with GUI 8.4, as it was possible with GUI 8.3

    When creatin an hyperswap volume in FS9200 GUI version 8.3, it was possible to select a prefered site; now, with GUI 8.4, it's no more possible.We request this possibility for hyperswap volumes to select in the GUI a prefered site to be implemente...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

    More intelligent Caching

    With the DS8000 IBM has several patents and very efficient caching algorithms. This interlectural property should be also available in the SVC
    almost 12 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    Sp. Virtualise for Public Cloud support for Google Cloud

    IBM has responded to a global RFP for HSBC which will replace 60PB of EMC Tier storage. It was made clear to us that without support for cloud integration / tiering to Google (HSBCs strategic cloud provider) our chances would be slim
    over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

    SVC vSphere Plug-in supporting vdisk mirror

    The vSpehere Plug-in for VMware should be enhance so that the admin using the plug-in will be able t specify more detailed properties when creating a vdisk on SVC. Especially the definition of vdisk mirroring is important because we use SVC Split ...
    over 13 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Add "Remove" disk to Virtualize GUI

    Add "remove disk" function to the GUI. To remove a disk required using the CLI. In the above ticket, the SV1 phoned home for a drive throwing errors. It was determined the drive needed to be replaced. The SSR went on site and was working with the ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    SVC GMCV single shot mode

    Currently the Global Mirror with Change Volumes is designed to be a continuous replication technology.Customer have brought up the suggestion that the underlying implementation could actually also be used for Snapshot based backups that will be tr...
    about 11 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    IBM Spectrum virtulize should generate alert before rebuilding of a failed disk

    One of our customer have large infrastructure of IBM Storage deployed ,where IBM FS 840 /FS 900 / SVC / IBM V7000 / IBM FS 9150 / IBM FS 9200 installed across India. Although we have call home configured and working for all devices , fault like di...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

    NVMeoF vVol Protocol Endpoints support is missing.

    As of now (8.6.3.0) there is only support for SCSI PE's in a VMware/vVol environment. So, VMFS volumes work fine with End-to-End NVMeoF from host to storage, vVol does not.To use vVols (which is a perfect match with NVMeoF) i need to create duplic...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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