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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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SFP RX values on FC ports on SVC

one "response" during the 65148,662,706was that RX values were low in SFP's on the SVC node. and yet no errors seen anywhere in SAN switch, eventlog, or TPC for errors on SVC port. indeed was advised this should be corrected before any firmware up...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Allow IBM support to modify the RAID Parity Scrub rate. This would be used in potential data loss situations.

I want to have the option to speed up the "RAID Parity Scrub rate, built into and available in the code. I envision it as something only IBM could enable, but also not opposed to having it be available, and perhaps just not advertised to the gener...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Increased FlashCopy bitmap space for SVC in 2022

EPIC 15665 is slated to expand FlashCopy Bitmap space in 2H22, but currently SVC is not slated for support. This customer is a long time IBM customer that is need of increased bitmap space for SVC.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Mask offline WWPNs in order to better monitor host status

In our AIX virtualized (NPIV) environment we've zoned all systems (lpars) with extra WWPN's that are used for lpar mobility. These WWPN's are not visible in the SAN for most of the time, but they are defined at the SVC level offcourse. This causes...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Secure wipe for drives (when decommissioning storage)

There is no functionality available in the Storwize line of storage systems which allows an admin to securely erase a drive in an enclosure (the DS8xxx line has SDO for this.) AIX has a diag tool which does it, but it only works on locally-attache...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Need the semi promised disk drive upgrade utility for Storwize V7000

I am in ATS and am regularly being asked when we will have an automated way to upgrade all drive firmware on the SWV7K. We have customers run the upgradetest utility prior to doing software upgrades and it warns that drive firmware is not current ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

vdisk_protection with Spectrum Protect Snapshot

The vdisk_protection_time and vdisk_protection_enabled, are two parameters provided in Spectrum Virtualize and Storwize to prevent accidental deletion and unmapping of a vdisk. Unfortunately, this vdisk_protection function is unusable if any autom...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize on-box performance graphs not granular enough

The on-box performance graphs on Spectrum Virtualize products do not provide enough granularity. In particular, they do not show sub-millisecond latencies and they only display data points every few seconds.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Dynamic LUN Expansion on SVC when part of a Metro Mirror or FlashCopy relationship

We have a requirement to use dynamic LUN expansion on AIX which works well. However if the underlying SVC Volumes are part of a Metro Mirror or Flash Copy relationship, then the relationships have to be stopped and deleted in order to LUN expansio...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Introduce Support for fully qualified DNS names - IBM Remote Support

We have been trying to implement remote support access for UPS in order to enable remote code loads for their FlashSystem 9200 storage systems. UPS's firewall team has a policy that they will only use fully qualified DNS names in their proxy serve...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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