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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

Allowing a host to be a member of multiple host_clusters

Our strategic FlashSystem customers has requested an enhancement to improve flexibility in their environment. Today, a host can only be associated with a single host_cluster, which limits certain operational scenarios. The 1:1 restriction creates ...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Allow choosing the snapshot name for a volume group

Hello Development Team, One of our main FlashSystem platform customers in Brazil, the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3), believes that, for a more customized experience, it would be important to allow choosing the snapshot name when a snapshot policy ...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

introduce "lsvolume" as a successor for "lsvdisk" to better meet today's architectural designs

A few years ago, additional features such as e.g. Hyperswap have been introduced and required a better differentiation of types of volumes (a.k.a. vdisks). Hence new commands such as "mkvolume" or "lsvolumehostmap", "addvolumecopy" etc. had been i...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

add capability to filter for "empty" or "non-empty" fields in ls-command outputs

The "-filtervalue" parameter allows to filter for particular strings or substrings when using "listing" commands such as lsvdisk, lshost etc. Currently, the "-filtervalue" parameter syntax does not offer the capability to filter for objects that h...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

task-based TPI

The way Two Person Integrity (TPI) is currently implemented collides with our security policies and is not considered a true "4 eyes principal". When SecAdmin1 approves a time slot of X minutes for SecAdmin2 to do anything with superuser powers th...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

We want to use the secure port 587 instead of port 25 in the email server configuration section of IBM StoreWise storage systems.

We would like to add username and password authentication management to the email server configuration section of the IBM StoreWise storage GUI for versions below 8.6. This way, we would like to use the secure 587 port instead of port 25.
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Functionality already exists

Interop matrix for SRM v9.0.2 and SRA v4.2.0

Client has to upgrade Site Recovery Manager (SRM)from v8.7 to version 8.8.0.1 , upgrade vCenter servers at both sites from v 7.0 to version 8.0U3g. Upgrade SRM from v8.8 to version 9.0.2 at both sites , upgrade distributed virtual switches (dvSwit...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Functionality already exists

Bundle for IP quorum hosted on an IBM cloud VM

Some customers do not wish to deploy a VM for the IP quorum on a third site, in their environment. Competition offers an option where the Quorum is hosted and running on a cloud-based VM. It would be a kind of bundle: IP Quorum app + small VM on I...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Volume groups should not be allowed to be deleted if volumes containing snapshots are associated with them

Summary: Volume groups should not be allowed to be deleted if volumes containing snapshots are associated with them. Simple check.
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Needs more information

rmsyslogserver should be sent to remote syslog server

Setting up a remote syslog server to catch notifications from StorV is an important component in any security framework. Likewise it is important to monitor if syslog notifications get unconfigured. As of today, removing the last/only syslog serve...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

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