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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between the same two storages.

Here in Brazil, we have some customers who have only two storages and they ask us (IBM) for the ability to configure PB-HA and PB-R between these two storages. Today, we only support PB-R or PB-HA between the same storages, to support PB-R and PB-...
27 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

Controller ownership: backend disks and data - new architecture and/or implementation

Hello Product and Development teams, Over Latin America we faced some situation where customers did see (a lot) value in solutions where multiple controllers can work together, to minimize downtime, to achieve some workload requirements and so on....
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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.
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

IBM block storage --- CSI driver -- support for hosted bare metal worker

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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Policy based replication with high availability must support hosts that has luns in multiple partitions.

In a virtual environment, esx hosts can have luns presented from multiple sources based upon needs. Some luns are single site, and other are dual site. With current version (8.7), one host/region can only have one type of storage (single site or r...
4 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Under review

Harmonize SV3 limits with 9500 ones

SVC SV3 nodes are identical to FS9500 canisters. But even when customers are running SV3 nodes only clusters, the limits (eg volume count) are lower than for 9500s. This is hard to explain to customers if they're not running clusters with mixed ge...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Enable IBM Block storage CSI driver to choose other than the default TCP port 22 when used with FlashSystem

Currently, IBM Block storage CSI driver interacts with FlashSystem devices via the default SSH port (TCP/22). Please provide a way to change the port usage. See the discussion on a Slack channel #get-help_CSi: https://ibm-systems-storage.slack.com...
2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Throttle/QoS for Volume Groups

Hello, I would like to suggest an enhancement that could combine throttle and volume groups. Since we are moving to volume groups related to all aspects and is possible to define the RPO objective (of PBR) directly in the replication policy, one p...
3 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Relaxing IP quorums placement dependency on the Ethernet ports where the service IP address assigned.

Currently, IP quorums for HyperSwap as well as Policy-Based HA configurations need to be connected to the systems' Ethernet port where the service IP address being assigned. This current design of placing IP quorums prohibits from having a secure ...
5 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Disable Host Degraded for Direct-Attached Hosts

This client has multiple distribution centers with small FS5x00s that are directly attached to a few ESX servers. The site is too small to justify SAN switches, and direct-attach is supported with NPIV enabled on 8.6+ code. In our configuration, e...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

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