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Status Under review
Workspace IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 15, 2025

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Allow choosing the snapshot name for a volume group

Hello Development Team,

One of our main FlashSystem platform customers in Brazil, the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3), believes that, for a more customized experience, it would be important to allow choosing the snapshot name when a snapshot policy is applied to a Volume Group. This would make it easier to manage the solution and reuse the volume when it is restored.

We explained to the customer that it is possible to rename a snapshot manually, and they tested it successfully. However, the customer believes that having the option to define the name at creation time would make solution management easier.

Thanks in advance.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Dec 9, 2025

    Hello Philip, sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

    Please find the customer’s response below:

    "Basically, we implemented routines in Control-M that generate these snapshots by jobs in any old and new environments, so that we can track when they are done, completed, fail, etc. This also makes it easier to identify which group each SNAP belongs to."

    Let me know if you need any additional information. Thanks.

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  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Sep 26, 2025

    Thank you for submitting this Idea. We are currently evaluating your request.

    Can you please provide more detail about the use case for choosing the snapshot name?

    A snapshot is not an object that can be directly manipulated. It is an immutable point in time copy of the data that you cannot read/write or map to a host. The GUI and CLI already provide means to view snapshots associated with a volume group.

    To recover data from a snapshot you can either restore in place (overwrite the production volume from the snapshot) or you can recover to a new volume as a thin-clone.

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/flashsystem-9x00/9.1.0?topic=volumes-snapshots


    Thanks,
    FlashSystem Team

    philipclark@ibm.com

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  • Admin
    Philip Clark
    Sep 26, 2025

    Sorry for the previous question. It was posted to the wrong Idea. Deleted.

    Reply

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