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Workspace IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 31, 2012

RELATED IDEAS

SVC nodes with more than 4 FC ports

Instead of having the two 10 GB Ethernet ports in the SVC (2145-CG8) we need another 4 port FC adapter.

As an alternative a new SVC engine should have at least 8 FC ports.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     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 System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) / Spectrum Virtualize

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) / Spectrum Virtualize

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 26, 2012

    Agreed - customers need expansion options on SVC heads beyond what it currently offered. I suspect the majority of SVC users are deploying FibreChannel so additional FC ports (or the option to add them) would be very much welcome.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 10, 2012

    Development and product management are researching options for a near term solution but also have an uncommitted plan to achieve increased host ports in 2H2013.

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