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    mmhealth incorrectly reports Windows nodes as FAILED

    Scale 4.2.3NSD nodes on x86, rhel7.3client nodes on x86, rhel and Windows 2012 R2When executed on NSD node, mmhealth incorrectly shows Windows node as FAILED:---# mmhealth cluster show node Component Node Status Reasons----------------------------...
    almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

    TS3500 (3584) time synchronization (NTP)

    We have a TS3500 Tape Library and we can not set the date & time synchronization to the company's internal NTP server, there is no such option on the Web-based Administration Interface.Please give us an advice how to do this or please enhance ...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Reliability option for when suspension of disk occurs on disk outages

    IBM: Currently when allocating disk space, gpfs only consider the disk status(ready,suspended/to-be-emptied, emptied, replacing, replacement) but not "availability"(up, down, recovering, unrecovered). for "availability", it will impact whether GPF...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

    mmunlinkfileset -f report unmatch error message

    [root@pnsd1 ~]# mmunlinkfileset aggr3 user_scratch -fUnable to quiesce fileset at all nodes.Fileset user_scratch has open files. Specify -f to force unlink. From above output we can see the error is not accurate reflecting customer's issue. They h...
    about 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Is a defect

    incremantal backup via NDMP

    Since TSM's limitation of doing NDMP backup of filer as full+differential. So if its having feature of adding incremental as one option, so we don't need to waste space by having differential backup as its become so large at one point until u do f...
    about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    Add warnning message for Filesystem NFS excluded from Backup in option "all-local"

    We use the "Client option set" to make a backups for a group of servers. When we use the domain "All-local" and specify a NFS Filesystem in a "Include" statement, the TSM Server doesn't show a message warnning reporting that are exclude of backup.
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    GUI vs. waiters

    GUI thread fork()s mmlsfs ... but when the cluster is hanging anyway .. it does not makes any sense , maybe GUI can be optimized to check cluster state/waiters ... As if a cluster hnags (has waiters) adding more monitoring hanging processes on top...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    TwoFactorAuthentication for OC

    We would like to use two factor authentication with smart cards to log in to our Operations Center in order to enhance security
    over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

    Spectrum Scale (ESS) request for SMI-S CIM Agent for 3rd party SRM monitoring support

    Require an SMI-S CIM Agent to be developed for SCALE / ESS to allow 3rd party SRM tool discovery and support (NetApp OnCommand, SolarWinds....etc) for capacity and performance monitoring. It is understood that Spectrum Control can be used with the...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

    Need approved process to create new secondary for protocol cluster AFM-based DR

    With AFM-based DR, I am familiar with the process for creating a new secondary when the original secondary is lost (mmafmctl <filesystem> changeSecondary). What is the process for creating a new secondary when mmcesdr is being used to manage...
    over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

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