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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 22, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

When Safeguarded Copies are in place it should not be possible to delete a Mdisk (should be a part of TPI)

At the moment, when you are using Safeguarded Copy, you can delete a VDisk of\and MDisk (even if TPI enabled). When deleting one or more Mdisks, Safeguarded Copy won't help you. So there must be a way to prevent deleting Mdisk(s) when SGC is in place.  

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Sep 16, 2026

    Thank you for submitting this Idea.

    FlashSystem TPI is designed to protect Safeguarded Copies. Deleting a volume is not an attack on the SGC.

    Deleting an mdisk/pool which would cause volumes and snapshots to be deleted should also not be possible. However, it may be possible to delete an mdisk and shrink the pool capacity, but that falls under normal capacity management concerns.

    See similar Ideas below to expand TPI to cover more actions:

    SCSI-I-1233 Expand TPI to more actions

    SCSI-I-1256 Two Person Integrity for Restricted Admins

    SCSI-I-1576 Requiring Elevated Access When Deleting Source Volume with SGC and TPI


    Thanks,
    FlashSystem Team

    philipclark@ibm.com

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