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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Policy Based Replication - Secondary Volumes Always Offline

My customer is planning to tech refresh their existing SAN Storage and IBM is one of the 4 vendors participated in the POC. With customer existing DR operations, the storage DR volumes are always at Online status, hence the volumes are always moun...
24 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

Allow "modify volume capacity" of a volume in a volume group with PBR applied

For the moment, it is not possible to modify (in our case extend) a volume which is in a volume group where a replication policy is applied. This has a huge impact if we simply want to extend a volume (to increase a datastore capaciy for example)....
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Proxmox support for PBHA

In order to attract disgruntled VMware customers, we need an official support statement for policy-based high-availability (PBHA) for Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). For both, Proxmox stand-alone servers and clustered ones.
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Policy Based Replication Allow rename of volumes into a volume group with replication policy assigned

We sometime need to rename a volume because it makes things cleared when you want to add other volumes or other vlume groups. For the moment, as soon as a policy is applied, the rename of a volume inside a volume group is not possible. Could you p...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for Hosted Control Plane (HCP)

For this SAN discussion we are focused on RedHat Open Shift (RHOS) environment. Here we will enable the Virtualization feature of RHOS soon. Our challenge: Attach SAN storage (IBM Storage Virtualize) for stateful data.We have bare-metal worker nod...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Volume hot expansion support for PBHA solution

The client has two FS5200 and implemented PBHA, but is questioning that it is not possible to perform hot volume expansion, he requested documentation showing that it is on the roadmap.
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

IBM FlashSystems using PBR is readonly on the AIX Hosts. Cannot send any IO to the luns so the AIX host is failing the paths.

IBM FlashSystems using PBR is no IO (No read or write) on the Mirror/DR side impacting operation procedures on the AIX Hosts. They cannot send any IO to the luns so the AIX host is failing the Paths. Validate the paths are clean by doing a healthc...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem enhanced scheduling

Customers like to schedule Safeguarded Copy for IBM FlashSystem with a daytime granularity. For example, they like to schedule some copies only during working hours or working days.The copies' refresh counting must be based only on the hours/days ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Planned for future release

non-destructive later-on encryption activation

When customers decide not to buy encryption enablement right away with a new FlashSystem but later on because eg they get this as a new requirement or change in corporate policy, they need to destroy all data on the system and re-create arrays to ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

Spectrum Virtualize "IO pause" on node leave and join is entirely too long

When a node leaves or joins a Spectrum Virtualize cluster (SVC, V7K, FS9100, etc), the cluster imposes an "IO pause" on the order of 10 or more seconds. This is unacceptably long, especially in a flash environment.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Planned for future release

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