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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    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 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    The run fix procedure schould check for all equal errors in one step

    ease of use, faster checks. If we update the backend systems behind a SVC or flash system the recovery procedure does a cleanup only for one item at a time, so if you updated a bunch of systems behind a SVC, you have a minimum of two events in the...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    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...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

    Alert for AC Power missing on Fs9500

    Fs9500 is considered Enterprise Storage. When AC power is missing, IBM service notification is NOT opened. Other Enterprise Storage like A9K and Ds8K are reporting this event. Moreover, even if Fs9500 is equipped with 4 different PSU, since AC pow...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 6 Not under consideration

    Ability to rename a snapshot (local or HA)

    Use case: currently snapshots are created with automatically generated names that are very random, with a string of numbers that are meaningless to the customer. Cu will sometimes take individual snapshots via the GUI, as a backup before a major a...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

    PBHA/R limit: how much in use?

    There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. It is not easy for a user to see how much can be added before that limit is reached . Can we provide this in GUI (or CLI). This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of...
    9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    IO pause data capture for both controller during code upgrade or node maintenance activity of IBM 9500

    During an upgrade of IBM 9500 Flash Systems, even if logs are collected immediately, we will get IO pause data from 1 node only. This is impacting the investigation during production issue due lack of logs & evidence of IO pause which is not g...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

    Add volume and host tagging and notes capability

    It would be helpful to have the ability to apply filter-able tags and/or notes to volumes and hosts. VMware has this capability and it is useful for automation as well as organization. Tags can be used by automation to find a collection of objects...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    IBM Block CSI Driver support for FIPS-mode OCP

    Customers running OpenShift Container Platform in FIPS-mode would be able to leverage IBM FlashSystem block storage for container workloads. Today, deploying the driver on a FIPS-enabled OCP cluster fails HostDefiner object creation with "ValueErr...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

    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 ...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

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