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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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IBM Storage plug-in for VMware needs the ability to assign cache io group

When using the IBM Storage plugin for VMware to create RDM or when using the IBM VASA to create vVols we need to ability to assign the cache io group. when we create a new vdisk on storage pool io group1 we want the cache io group1 assign and not ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

QoS Settings Should be per Pool, not per Node

Currently QoS Settings for Pools are per Node, not per Cluster. QoS settings should exist per pool per Cluster instead. This will prevent excess effort in management and maintenance in storage environments.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to report IO Density in GUI for QoS Settings Montioring

Currently you cannot see the reports for the performance of volumes with QoS settings in the GUI. There is no indication of how closely the volumes are vs. the QoS settings nor their peaks.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Throttling at Pool Level Should Apply to All Volumes in Pool

The Bandwidth or IOPs settings should apply to all volumes in a pool instead of the pools themselves and be across whole clusters.This will save considerable operational effort and tooling development time.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Finding WWPNs for spare nodes in SpecVirt products is difficult

The main management interfaces for the Spectrum Virtualize family makes it difficult (CLI) to impossible (GUI) to find the WWPNs for spare nodes. On the CLI, the sainfo lsservicestatus command can be used to find the WWPNs on spare nodes, but addi...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Automatic pool size increment by simple resize of underlying mdisks (e.g. Storwize LUNs)

Increasing the size of a pool consisting of mdisks from Storewize needs the following steps according to an discussion with our external partner:- create new LUNs on Storwize and map to SVC- integrate into pool on SVC- migrate data to bigger LUNs ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

DRP Pool -> show internal volumes in vdisk list or on a seperate list

Producing transparency, not just accounting for the consumption of internal volumes in the pool, but displaying those volumes in the volume list of consumptions.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

Intellectual disk drive updates

If the system has multiple types of disks and a user tries to upgrade all of them, some disks may fail to update. This causes the whole upgrade process to stop and leave all the remaining disks (even upgradable) at an older version. In this case a...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

For DRP show used_capacity_before_reduction in the GUI

When using DRP, Real and used capacity is not shown in the GUI. Used capacity is actuyally available from command line as "used_capacity_before_reduction". I suggest that this value is presented in the GUI for DRP volumes.
7 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

We need "UNIX/LINUX clear/Windows cls" command to clear the screen. The "cls" command should be an alias of the "clear" command.

Need to clear the screen to focus on what is shown. It would improve debugging and when sharing a screen via WebEx.
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration