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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Allow CSI driver for Flashsystem to define PortSet

The client is using FS9500 to automatically provision Block Storage to BareMetal Openshift servers through the IBM CSI Driver.As a shared infrastructure the client has deployed separated private network for each OCP cluster with Portsets.Today the...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

3rd vdisk copy for volume migration

The vdisk mirror function is great, but there are a couple of scenarios where two mirrored copies are actually not enough for many customers. Typically this is when customers mandate that there are ALWAYS two copies of a volume. The function does ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

Additional parameter for repairvdiskcopy

Additional parameter "-stoplba lba" for "repairvdiskcopy" command needed: -stoplba lba(Optional) Specifies the last logical block address (LBA) on which to finish the command. The LBA must be specified in hex, with a 0x prefix.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Default behavior of formatting a vdisk should be selectable

Default behavior when creating or expanding a vdisk is to format the new capacity. Please allow the customer to customize at the cluster level whether the default is to format or not format.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Allow more than one NTP server in Spectrum Virtualize Products

Most products that require time synchronization allow more than one NTP server to be specified. Spectrum Virtualize products only allow one server and that only via the IP address. Here, IBM has to make improvements and allow more than one server....
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

Policy Based Replication Allow rename of Volume group with replication policy assigned

For our larger customers where we are (currently) replicating with GM/GMCV consistency group names are chosen alongside with the customer as they would like to easily identify by CG name to which application the volumes in the consistency group be...
8 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

add SVC log message when volume mirror copies run out-of-sync

Please add an informational log message to SVC when volume copies 0 and 1 get out-of-sync. Despite the two policies that can be set with the 'mirrorwritepriority' option it would be very helpful to notice problems in the back-end when volume copie...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Not under consideration

Support for certificates with MS Entra SSO

The customer has requested SSO integration with MS Entra to use certificates (instead of a client secret) as a credential.
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

Warning when deleting volumes they still have snapshots associated with them.

Within the FlashSystem OS, when you delete a volume, the volume does not go away and remains in the system if there is a snapshot(s) associated with it. The OS does not tell you that it cannot delete, but simply places the volume in a delete(ing) ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review