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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Configuration of NTP must be done using NTP-SHA2 algorithm using symmetric key

RBI has brought a notice to banks in India for below: Observation details & Manner of Compliance: Observation as per the report 3.9.15 - 'Stratum' Network Time Protocol (NTP) solution used by the bank for NTP synchronization configured with NT...
about 18 hours ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Allow the refreshfromsnapshot command to run when the target has snapshots and/or a snapshot policy.

The refreshfromsnapshot command currently requires that you delete all snapshots and the snapshot policy of a target volume group before refreshing. This isn't ideal in the case when you are refreshing a volume group since you may need to restore ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Policy Based Replication - Need a way to monitor how far out of sync destination volumes are from the source volumes for different Volume Groups

When adding IBM flashsystems to a monitoring tool (we have Zabbix), it can see the Volume Groups made on the flashsystems, but it is not able to get any information that shows how far out of sync the destination volumes are from the source volumes...
9 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

IBM Block CSI Driver support for FIPS-mode OCP

Customers running OpenShift Container Platform in FIPS-mode would be able to leverage IBM FlashSystem block storage for container workloads. Today, deploying the driver on a FIPS-enabled OCP cluster fails HostDefiner object creation with "ValueErr...
17 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

internal E-Mail client - add "sender address" and make authentication optional

with one of the recent major Versions, Storage Virtualize introduced a completetly new e-mail client, which is a great addition to the previous implementation. In the new client we can have a custom port and support for encryption. Also authentica...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 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...
9 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Under review

Schedule a snapshot every 4 weeks via GUI (currently only available via CLI)

A snapshot schedule created via GUI does not allow this schedule: mksnapshotpolicy -backupunit week -backupinterval 4 Using the GUI, only once a month can be set but customer needs every 4 weeks for his schedule. He primarily uses GUI, rather than...
13 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Initiate a SafeGuarded Copy from the GUI without using policies (currently only CLI)

Customer needs a way to initiate an adhoc SGC of a volume. This is currently only possible via CLI.
13 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

Ability to rename a snapshot from GUI (currently only CLI)

Customer uses this regularly and would like to be available via GUI, not just CLI.
13 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

PBHA/R: increase total vol capacity

There is a limit of 4096 TiB for HA or 2048 TiB for 3-site HA+async. This limit is in terms of the total virtual capacity of the replicated volumes (hidden volumes - change volumes - don't count towards this figure). Limit is reached in this 3-sit...
13 days ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review