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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

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    add unmap enable/disable option to gui

    Default for flashsystem is host unmap off, and this feature is invisible to client until they hit 80% capacity or oos an support advise to enable it. We also want to keep clients in the gui, so it might be worth adding this option to the GUI.
    about 18 hours ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    3-site support for low-bandwidth links to DR system with automatic mode switching

    Since 8.7.1 we offer a 3-site HA+DR solution, but it requires a high bandwidth link to the DR system. Most customers are asking for a 3 site solution with a low-bandwidth link to the third site. Standard PB Replication offers an automatic mode swi...
    28 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Planned for future release

    when using a (pbha-) partitions ip address to access the (pbha-) partition via ssh: make the accessed partition visible. e.g. modify the ssh-prompt and add the partitions name.

    greater customer satisfaction when using ssh to access a partition.
    26 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

    VM clones should be created and made available in seconds, not minutes

    For our ETH Zurich internal customers we need to be able to provide new VMs automatically, sometimes in large numbers, and we must be capable of creating and making such VM clones available within a few seconds. Moving VMs within a VM datastore cl...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Send error notification in case a physical ISL in a PBHA System Partnership fails

    Can the IBM issue an error notification by the FlashSystem, that is joining a PBHA relationship, in case a physical ISL fails, which is part of the related System Partnership ? It would be good to get a similar error notification as the Cluster Pa...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Policy Based High Availability: send Warning Event Notification already if the first of two IP Quorum instances in a Partition gets unavailable.

    IBM recommends to configure at PBHA solutions for each HA Partition a second IP quorum as a backup for situations where theprimary quorum fails or requires maintenance. As of today the FlashSystem sends a Warning Event Notification as soon as the ...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Track Thermal Throttling on Drives

    We recently had a performance issue, that IBM support was able to track back to thermal throttling on a drive based on data from a Snap-4. Would it be possible to track this information in events so that we could have an insight into how frequentl...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Improve handling of Snapshot (hidden FCMap in stopping state) cleanup

    Currently, there isn't much to indicate that a FlashSystem is having a hard time doing it's VolumeGroup Snapshot cleanup. If you look at the VG in the GUI, you'll see that the count of snapshots is greater than the number of snapshots that are act...
    about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Under review

    Policy-based Quality of Service / Throttles

    Every vdisk out of a specific ressource (pool/childpool/host/cluster/vdisk-name) should get automatically a throttle per pre-defined policy.
    26 days ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    fixcentral communications - 8.7.0.10

    Hi Support, Please could you Post in RED/BOLD informing customers to not install, previous downloaded images. With the recent release of v8.7.0.10 and withdrawal from download site. we have flashsystem 5200 and flashsystem 5300. I downloaded v8.7....
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

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