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    Supporting half-populated R760 nodes in CD mode (concentrated dispersal mode)

    All generations of IBM COS hardware supported nodes with 12 disks in CD mode. We sold quite a few and when we need to replace them with newer generations (customers: Porsche Informatik, KSG, ...) we would need to have a solution similar to the exi...
    10 months ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 0 Under review

    Object Lock: Limit retention to a maximum number of days and add an option to disable COMPLIANCE lock on a bucket

    Add configuration on bucket or container vault or both that limits the maximum number of days allowed when using object lock. Configuration can be made using service API or GUI as this is not something supported on s3api. Another option that might...
    about 2 months ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 1 Submitted

    Compatibility with VMware Cloud Director

    Dear Support, I would like to suggest an improvement of Cloud Object Storage (COS on-prem). Just a background, we faced a limitation of our product Cloud Object Storage in a Public Auction (RFP) of a Governamental customer (Brazil). This customer ...
    almost 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 3 Under review

    Spectrum Protect (TSM) client for Space Management (HSM) for ppc (power) Linux

    With the evolution of Spectrum Scale (esp. ESS) running on our ppc Hardware on Linux it is required to have this capability to reduce the number of objects to manage (i.e. an extra AIX or x86 system to handle the HSM migration out of ESS or other ...
    over 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

    S3 to Tape

    Provide a mechanism to flush out/tier older objects at bucket level from COS to tape ideally while preserving some kind of object level reference in the source bucket not having to rely on data movement at the application layer or leverage the COS...
    about 3 years ago in Cloud Object Storage Ready Nodes 1 Submitted

    Need a support for data migration using AFM between two Spectrum Scale clusters with migrated data to tape by ISP HSM.

    Currently data on a source Spectrum Scale clucster(or ESS) can be migrated to a target cluster using AFM prefetch function.In case that a cluster uses HSM function which migrates data on GPFS to tape storage using ISP for Space Management, AFM pro...
    about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

    Rolling upgrades of space management client.

    When upgrading the space management client, event if there are multiple HSM nodes, it is required to disable HSM globally while space management and backup-archive clients and API are removed and reinstalled on all nodes. For clusters with multipl...
    almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

    Support current versions of Storage Scale in the Storage Protect for Space management client for Linux. Currently this would be Scale 5.2.2.x and 5.2.3.x.

    This would benefit all Storage Protect for Space management customers who are also Storage Scale System customers, or who use Storage Scale and want to run up to date versions of Scale. The latest version of Storage Protect for Space management cl...
    9 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Planned for future release

    Improve HSM logging to contain filenames

    Add a further option to HSMLOGEVENTFLAGS to also log the filenames and recallid for transparent recalls. Currently there's only exobjid and handle. Further extend dsmq toa) to produce machine readable outputb) show extobjid and handle
    almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

    Tape optimization recall termination improvement

    The product has several recall types.Tape optimization recall(TOR) is one of them.Now you terminate a TOR, it waits to complete the current recall. It is important to implement a more granular TOR termination technique.
    almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

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