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PINNED Is there a use case for having a host with no ports in a host cluster?
A host cluster is an existing concept in FlashSystem used to simplify the configuration of a number of similar hosts, usually with the same volume mappings. The question is, is there a use case for having a host in a host cluster that has no ports...

IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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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 ...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

show rebuild V7000 under running tasks

As you can see we've had a hard disk with a lot errors. We've changed the hdd with a new one and reset the disk status back to spare disk. After this the array began to rebuild, but you can't see anything under the GUI of the V7000. Only with a sp...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Is a defect

V7000 Pool View: expanded vs. collapseed view

Customer asks for collapsed view of pools in the GUI. By default, the pool view shows expanded all pools - but this is with many pools not very handy. Maybe it's possible to add a setting like (expanded or collapsed display of the pools in the GUI...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

Enclosure-loss protection on Storwize V7000

Please implement contra-rotating SAS cabling for connections from Controller enclosure to drive enclosures. This gives additional failure protection and avoids enclosure interdependencies caused by "daisy-chain" connections. DS4000 / DS5000 custom...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

SVC planned maintenance for vdisk mirror

My customer is planning to use SVC stretched cluster as a high available solution for the two data centers that are located close to each other (less than 1 km distance). They are asking for a function to "suspend" the vdisk mirror on one side wit...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Not under consideration

SVC planned maintenance for vdisk mirror

My customer is planning to use SVC stretched cluster as a high available solution for the two data centers that are located close to each other (less than 1 km distance). They are asking for a function to "suspend" the vdisk mirror on one side wit...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Can a mechanism or a configuration table be built to show how large of an MDisk % is going to be large enough to populate all

Can a mechanism or a configuration table be built to show how large of an MDisk % is going to be large enough to populate all the MDisks (IE 2% is not large enough to be spread across 3 MDisks in the pool it would be spread to only 2. This would b...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Can a mechanism be built to better add / manage users from the V7000 into Microsoft AD?

Requesting a mechanism be built to better add / manage users from the V7000 into Microsoft AD?
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

mechanism be built to change the global V7000 values (TP grain size instead of each volume at a time) or all performance rela

Requesting a mechanism be built to change the global V7000 values (TP grain size instead of each volume at a time) or all performance related data)?
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

parallel threads of volume / vdisk migation in SVC GUI

It is not possible to change the amount of threads for vdisk / volume migrations between mdiskgroups / pools inside the SVC GUI version 6.x
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration