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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

Commands in FS7200 CLI needs more verbosity levels

In troubleshooting connections and logins, ie inside DNS, LDAP, Proxy, Call Home tests then cli does not give enough information. All the time snaps are needed and then look into those to troubleshoot.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Remove -force option from stopsystem command when issued via the GUI (or make it optional)

When using the GUI (node actions -> power off) to power off a specific SVC node (eg a hardware repair action) the -force option is used in the command svctask stopsystem -force -gui -node x This bypasses the checks for volumes going offline or ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Add support for SSH Batch Mode with MFA enabled

In current 8.6.x code, if MFA is enabled on a system, SSH Batch Mode functionality is broken (per SVAPAR-112569). SSH Batch Mode functionality is required for functionality of some external 3rd-party applications (including Galileo Performance Exp...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Make IP Quorum App run as a service by default when it's installed.

Today the IP Quorum App is not installed as a service in the Operating Systems, so when the host where it resides is rebooted the client has to manually start the IP Quorum app again. If this is made as a service automatically during the install t...
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

FS7200, use interfaces more dynamically

FS7200 network configuration is not suitable for our network design and security aspects.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

DRP Pool -> improve vDisk copy delete function and progress

Deleting a vDisk copy in the DRP pool can be a long process if the copy is compressed or deduplicated. Unfortunately, you can not figure out how long it will take. This would require a display in the GUI and a command on the command line. During t...
over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

SpVirt cluster-wide throttle definitions

Host throttling operates at the node level and therefore applies only to the volumes in that IO group. Need to be able to define a cluster-wide throttle.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Show the sum of used capacity when selecting multiple volumes via GUI

When selecting multiple volumes via GUI, show the sum of Used Capacity for the selected volumes, along with the Capacity that is already displayed today.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration

Include "date" command to report system-date on IBM Storage Virtualize products . . .

During automation, lot of times system date needs to be retrieved from storage system. Currently one has to run undocumented "svqueryclock" command. Would be better if we can provide/support "date" command (or some one word variance of it) to offi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Future consideration