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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 10, 2013

Need GUI wizard to perform reverse FlashCopy

Need ability in GUI to restore a FlashCopy snapshot quickly and easily. As it is today it is not even obvious you can do this in the GUI but even if you know it can be done the flow doesn't make sense and if select the default type of FC mapping, snapshot, then nothing happens and restore doesn't occur. We need a simple right click on FC mapping or consistency group to restore to a point-in-time of a previous snapshot like XIV offers. I am attaching screen shots of XIV GUI.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM Storwize V7000, V5000 and V3000

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM Storwize V7000, V5000 and V3000

  • Guest
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    Sep 10, 2013

    Attachment (Description): Example of XIV GUI we could emulate to provide this function in Storwize/SVC