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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between the same two storages.

Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
16 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Flashcopy Mapping - right click restore

Problem Description I just spent 3 days with IBM support trying to figure out how to restore a flashcopy from a target volume to a source volume. Finally support found a 2013 storewize v7000 redbook that listed to 2 commands. (ie Creating a revers...
about 22 hours ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

PB- Replication: In certain instances the QA databases are refreshed daily from the Global Mirror targets. With the current process on the SVC you can specify the replication direction for example “svctask startrcconsistgrp -force -primary master 5”. On the new policy based replication it is very easy for someone to accidentally restart the replication in the wrong direction using the command line on the wrong storage device(DR), e.g.if they should issue “chvolumegroupreplication -mode production 5” on the wrong storage device(DR). This will restart replication backwards and overwrite production with old data. The GUI is verifying that via a message, before allowing.

Anyone doing such tasks, can do easily fatal overwrites in the wrong direction when using the CLI. Especially in an Disaster Recovery Situation.A message like you are intending to replicate / sync from X to Y. Are you sure?
2 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Proxmox support for PBHA

In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
23 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for hosted bare metal worker

For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Policy based replication with high availability must support hosts that has luns in multiple partitions.

In a virtual environment, esx hosts can have luns presented from multiple sources based upon needs. Some luns are single site, and other are dual site. With current version (8.7), one host/region can only have one type of storage (single site or r...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
23 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less

Flash Grid updates refresh time for SI to be configurable so we can change it from 5 minutes to less for the puprose of daily work 5 minutes gap between doing action from SI and seeing results on storage may cause customers to do some other action...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Future consideration

Enable IBM Block storage CSI driver to choose other than the default TCP port 22 when used with FlashSystem

Currently, IBM Block storage CSI driver interacts with FlashSystem devices via the default SSH port (TCP/22). Please provide a way to change the port usage. See the discussion on a Slack channel #get-help_CSi: https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review