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IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem

Add SAS Enclosure Compatibility to the FS7600 and Above

Many of our customers still require SAS HDD storage and cannot afford to go "All Flash." The lack of SAS enclosures on the large Flash Systems is becoming a technical problem that will limit our ability to sell Flash Systems to more budget conscio...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

show UID's in lsvdiskanalysis output

lsvdiskanalysis currently only shows volume names so it would be a good addition when checking volumes
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Client suggest that we build a utility that can do a health check on the network connection between two partnered systems and report back if any necessary ports are open and correct certificate is in use. Vasiliy indicated that there is such a utility used by GPFS.

Clients setting up partnerships or troubleshooting connection errors after changes are made to the networks.
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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.
2 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

In the Grid Storage overview GUI you can see which systems are healthy or not. Give a clue why systems are not healthy

The Connectivity health can be healthy or not. If not, tell me why this is not healthy. I assume the grid knows why a storage system has unhealthy connectivity. The system will communicate this with the grid somehow. It saves time to determine why...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

NVMe/TCP Connectivity Support in IBM Block Storage CSI Driver

NVMe/TCP is supported by OpenShift and IBM FlashSystem. However, the IBM Block CSI driver only supports iSCSI and FC. For IP attached FlashSystems customers want the IBM Block CSI driver to leverage NVMe/TCP protocol rather than iSCSI. Target envi...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

FlashSystem Test Encryption Key Servers from GUI / Fix Wizard

It would be useful if the FlashSystem allowed for testing encryption key servers from the GUI and the Fix wizard. On the DS8 we can test key servers from the GUI but on the FlashSystem even when going through the Fix wizard the only option is to l...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

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...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review

Adopt naming of Replication Status for PBHA Volumes in Volume view to something more appropriate naming

Hello IBM team, can you adopt the naming of the Replication Status for PBHA Volumes in GUI's Volume view to a something more appropriate naming ? The current naming for the PBHA Volume's Replication Status is "Production". Can the naming be change...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 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....
3 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem Under review