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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Initiate a SafeGuarded Copy from the GUI without using policies (currently only CLI)

Customer needs a way to initiate an adhoc SGC of a volume. This is currently only possible via CLI. Use case: their SLA’s include taking an immutable snapshot and keeping it for x days (up to a year), immediately after certain changes. Examples in...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

PBHA/R: increase total vol capacity

There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of the replicated volumes (hidden volumes - change volumes - don't count towards this figure). Limit is reached in this 3-sit...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Volume creation with CSI based on capacity and/or performance of target FlashSystems

Customer is finishing a PoC that will select OpenShift as their VMware replacement platform. During their day-to-day operations, they provision a large number of volumes for new workloads. This will increase with OpenShift, which requires more vol...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Allow customer to choose the amount of memory allocated to CSI driver

Customer during provisioning of a large number of volumes from within OpenShift to FlashStorage FS9500 on the back-end, hit a limit related to the amount of memory allocated to the CSI driver by default. The customer would like to be able to selec...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Make "Hold service state" persist across power cycles.

Currently, at a remote location, there is no way to make a FlashSystem stay offline across power cycles. There are cases where power maintenance activities take place, and it is expected that power may go up & down multiple times. Having a Fla...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Support of CSI drivers for Rancher

There are various customers and prospective using rancher for their kubernetes containers, so it could be valueable to think and work on the support for those environments
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Flashsystem Storage systems to have basic monitoring capability in the GUI itself. Eg: alert or notify on volume capacity used or state based on set threshold on the system itself. Basically, the system itself to have basic/flexible monitoring capability

This is useful when we look at the system we can get all kind of alert/notification including volume used capacity. This will enhance visibility with respect to monitoring and alerting and will add an extra layer of protection from causing outage ...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration