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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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IBM Block CSI Driver support for FIPS-mode OCP

Customers running OpenShift Container Platform in FIPS-mode would be able to leverage IBM FlashSystem block storage for container workloads. Today, deploying the driver on a FIPS-enabled OCP cluster fails HostDefiner object creation with "ValueErr...
5 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Schedule a snapshot every 4 weeks via GUI (currently only available via CLI)

A snapshot schedule created via GUI does not allow this schedule: mksnapshotpolicy -backupunit week -backupinterval 4 Using the GUI, only once a month can be set but customer needs every 4 weeks for his schedule. He primarily uses GUI, rather than...
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Initiate a SafeGuarded Copy from the GUI without using policies (currently only CLI)

Customer needs a way to initiate an adhoc SGC of a volume. This is currently only possible via CLI.
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Ability to rename a snapshot from GUI (currently only CLI)

Customer uses this regularly and would like to be available via GUI, not just CLI.
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

PBHA/R: increase total vol capacity

There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of the replicated volumes (hidden volumes - change volumes - don't count towards this figure). Limit is reached in this 3-sit...
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

PBHA/R limit: how much in use?

There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. It is not easy for a user to see how much can be added before that limit is reached . Can we provide this in GUI (or CLI). This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of...
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

3-site PBHA/R replication monitoring: show all VG's and their status in the main window

useful in a multi-VG partition; increased delay can indicate perf issue on the source, for the workload in that VG
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Add FC ports (also non-host) to performance overview pane

Monitor the intersystem links, to have an immediate indication of replication or HA link problems.
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

increase total volume limit

the total limit today is Basic volumes per system: 15,864 we already hitting this limit with only 970 volumes. we have svc Stretched Mode and we are trying to do safeguard copy 7 generation snapshot and we are hitting the limit (1 snap every morni...
6 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted