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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Provide meaningfull names for volumes created by HyperSwap volume pair allocation by CLI and GUI

When allocating an HyperSwap volume pair, the client input naming the HyperSwap volume (let's assume it is new_HS_volume) is only used to name the Master copy of the quadruplet created by the allocation dialogue. The 3 other volumes (Auxiliary, Ma...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Flash System 9200 - Notification of System Software Update Completion

Client would like to receive email notification and SNMP alert when System Software Upgrade starts and ends. While this is currently available by selecting 'Informational' events', the client would like this notification to be separate and does no...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

FlashSystem Single Pool spanning multiple controllers data placement

Requesting an option on a storage pool spanning multiple control enclosures for extents for each volume to be placed on the mdisks local to the access control enclosure/io group
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Increase StripeWidth when expanding DRAID

Increase the stripe width when expanding a DRAID to maximize the capacity.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Increase number of extents per cluster

Currently a system with extent size of 1 GiB does only support a managed capacity of 4 PiB. We need more scalability without using a larger extent size, e.g. managed capacity of 8 PiB with an extent size of 1 GiB.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Virtualize FQDN support

The Spectrum Virtualize SW stack needs to support FQDN/DNS addresses for LDAP/AD, NTP, SMTP, External Encryption Servers, or SNMP. Currently requires hard-coded IP addresses.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Flashsystem 7200 expansion enclosure NVME

The expansion enclosures of the flashsystem 7200 do not support NVME. All government agency procurement processes are requesting and we are taking a beating from Dell, Purestorage and Huawey. We need to fix this or we will no longer sell to govern...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Backport lsportstats to 8.3.1.x code stream

In the SVC 8.4 code SFP statistics have been made visible via the CLI lsportstats command. We would like to see this backported to the SVC 8.3.1.x code stream which is the current advised code stream by IBM.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Client needs "compressed size" and "Thin size" information be displayed in the GUI, like we have in lsvdiskanalysis.

Customer's Capacity plan Team needs "compressed size" and "Thin size" information be displayed in the GUI, like we have in lsvdiskanalysis.
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Need to internally archive audit logs when removing cluster data

When a T3 recovery is performed, cluster logs for the previous instance of the system are destroyed. This means if a malicious user were to perform unauthorized changes, then do a T3 recovery, that the audit trail documenting said actions is lost....
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration