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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Allow longer names for flash copy related items.

Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect when using FCM and SVC: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controlle...
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Add Expand capability for fully allocated hyperswap volumes

Recently an option was added (8.4?) to FlashSystem software (Storwize) allowing easy expansion of in-use Hyperswap volumes through the GUI. An unfortunate restriction of this for us was that it cannot be used with fully allocated hyperswap volumes...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Three site Async Replication - Spectrum Virtualize

The customer requirement consists of an application that needs to be in a 3-way async replication configuration between their 3 data centers which are outside of Sync distances.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Separation of SCSI UNMAP and other offload workloads from offload throttle

SCSI UNMAP rate can oversubscribe backend storage, and rate can be reduced with application of offload throttle on cluster. But this bring other challenges where this offload throttle also throttles XCOPY and other related offload workloads - whic...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Turn Thin Provisioning vdisks into read only instead of offline when they get full.

When a Thin Provisioning gets full, instead of taking the vdisk offline turn it into read-only, so it's still available for read operations and avoids customer impacting events.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Management interface bond (port-channel)

For environments that rely heavily on a working management interface (automation, flashcopy scripts) would benfit greatly with the ability to bond two of the ethernet ports for management. If common that the upstream switch can run a port-channel ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

FlashSystem NAS

Japanese VAD. I am afraid this is a simple question.Why is it that only IBM does not have a NAS that can be bought for about 1 to 2 million yen?FlashSystem's FCM is excellent as block storage.However, we are often told by our Japanese customers.In...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Policy Based Replication Recovery Volume Names

We appreciate the simplicity of Policy Based Replication setup; however, we are in need of these two features to be added: 1. Allow custom naming of the recovery volumes. This is needed because we do not use the same system names between each site...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

SCSI Unmap at thin SVC volumes: recalculate after Unmap operation the reported value of actual written capacity

If SCSI Unmap operations are executed at SVC thin provisioned volumes, then the SVC GUI reflects the related physical allocation reduction on a consistent way (please see column “Usable Capacity” in the “Pools” view of the SVC GUI). But the data v...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

IBM SV data change rate integrated report

IBM SV (SVC or FS family) need to have an intgrated way with GUI or Cli to collect data change rate in a specific time window and interval to enable SGC to be easier and correctly sized. It will helps to be more pervasive in SGC diffusion and more...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Future consideration

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