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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

IBM block storage CSI driver, increase ssh connections on FlashSystem

Who benefits: OpenShift customers with one FlashSystem, but more than one Openshift Cluster How it should work: the FlashSystem Software should increase the number of SSH connections. This enable customers to use a single FlashSystem as a Storag...
6 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Allow the auto_zone_prefix to be added even after an auto zone enabled portset has been created.

If a customer has already setup the portsets for auto zoning, then realizes they could have setup a prefix name to help with the zone naming convention, they cannot setup the prefix without tearing down all the auto zone portsets.
2 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Recommend adding the host name, as specified in the host definition, to the zone name

FlashSystem auto zone in 9.1.2.1 code does not work with AIX LPM hosts, where host definitions include both the active and offline WWPNs. My speculation is, if a live WWPN cannot be seen there is no way to identify which fabric they are logged int...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

3-site support for low-bandwidth links to DR system with automatic mode switching

Since 8.7.1 we offer a 3-site HA+DR solution, but it requires a high bandwidth link to the DR system. Most customers are asking for a 3 site solution with a low-bandwidth link to the third site. Standard PB Replication offers an automatic mode swi...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Planned for future release

Timezone to be shown in log entries for security and system events

Customer recently had an internal security audit for Virtualize 9.1. One of their findings was to ask for the timezone to be shown in the log entries.
12 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

IBM Storage Virtualize in PBHA+DR deployments

Hello IBM Team, We would like to submit a Request for Enhancement for IBM Storage Virtualize in PBHA+DR deployments. In our environment, we have implemented a 3-site replication topology based on PBHA+DR architecture, where two storage systems for...
23 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

IBM Block CSI OpenShift Linux User Namespace Support

Linux user namespaces (hostUsers: false) in OpenShift 4.20 enable stronger workload isolation by removing the need for containers to run with host-level UIDs. This is a key security feature aligned with modern Kubernetes best practices and Red Hat...
13 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Submitted

Add SAS Enclosure Compatibility to the FS7600 and Above

Many of our customers still require SAS HDD storage and cannot afford to go "All Flash." The lack of SAS enclosures on the large Flash Systems is becoming a technical problem that will limit our ability to sell Flash Systems to more budget conscio...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

VM clones should be created and made available in seconds, not minutes

For our ETH Zurich internal customers we need to be able to provide new VMs automatically, sometimes in large numbers, and we must be capable of creating and making such VM clones available within a few seconds. Moving VMs within a VM datastore cl...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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