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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Password expire message on GUI

Customer has a suggestion for improvement so that when a password expires or is about to expire, a corresponding message appears in the GUI when trying to log in, as it currently only appears on the CLI.
1 day ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Support for AWS Outposts with FlashSystem Storage.

Currently NetApp and Pure Storage seem to be the only vendors which do support this on-premises delivery model for Amazon. If we had support for this as part of the FlashSystem/Storage Virtualize portfolio, our Business Partners would have an IBM ...
2 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Include feature license entitlement information in CLI/REST API output (e.g. lslicense cmd) to distinguish between "all inclusive" and "legacy" license model

With the introduction of the FlashSystem models, the licensing for flashcopy, virtualization and remote copy requires no additional license anymore, but rather all these features are already included by default. This renders the license attributes...
6 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

Flashcopy Mapping - right click restore

Problem Description I just spent 3 days with IBM support trying to figure out how to restore a flashcopy from a target volume to a source volume. Finally support found a 2013 storewize v7000 redbook that listed to 2 commands. (ie Creating a revers...
8 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted

PB- Replication: In certain instances the QA databases are refreshed daily from the Global Mirror targets. With the current process on the SVC you can specify the replication direction for example “svctask startrcconsistgrp -force -primary master 5”. On the new policy based replication it is very easy for someone to accidentally restart the replication in the wrong direction using the command line on the wrong storage device(DR), e.g.if they should issue “chvolumegroupreplication -mode production 5” on the wrong storage device(DR). This will restart replication backwards and overwrite production with old data. The GUI is verifying that via a message, before allowing.

Anyone doing such tasks, can do easily fatal overwrites in the wrong direction when using the CLI. Especially in an Disaster Recovery Situation.A message like you are intending to replicate / sync from X to Y. Are you sure?
9 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Submitted