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Data Manager reports should recognize GPFS & VMFS as a cluster

The report Data Manager > Reporting > TPC-wide Storage Space > File System Space > By cluster does not show GPFS clusters or VMware ESX clusters as a cluster. They are shown under By Computer. As a result, the file space in /VMFS (ESX ...
about 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 3 Future consideration

SPP - Interactive Donut

SPP - Interactive Donut - drill down from the Manage Protection > Protection by Policy.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

Allow grouping of statistics by DS8000 internal resources for performance reporting

Provide the ability to group and subset performance statistics for the DS8000 based on the internal configuration of the disk subsystem. Metrics which could be used for grouping and subsetting would be: - Rank statistics : device adapter, tier, DD...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

remote awareness of TPC-R sessions

When a storage device needs to be deleted from the standby server, the standby needs to be made active, and the device deleted, then returned to the standby state. The additional steps places risk on the TPC-R database. The standby database should...
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Future consideration

Improve system memory hard limit for GPFS program startup to adapt to AI system

We hit the following issue on Spectrum Scale 5.1.6.1 when GPFS is starting up. 2023-12-13_21:22:28.648+0800: [I] Verifying minimum system memory configurations.2023-12-13_21:22:28.648+0800: [I] The system memory configuration is 2063930 MiB2023-12...
6 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Scale needs to be NIST 800-53 compliant.

After scanning our system, Stig report is generated and there is one case have been addressed from our side but is still not resolved. In additional details, the issue is being addressed.
12 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

start all available NSDs after reboot or with "mmchdisk start -a"

"mmchdisk FS start -a" fails if one or more NSDs of a file system is not available (e.g. did not spin up). This is very odd. Our expectation is, that all available NSDs are started, and only the unavailable devices stay down. Actually, all NSDs of...
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

RFE 145037: Support of mixed R&S Subenclosure configuration

Based on RFE ID 129266 ( Support of R&S Subenclosure) Additional support for the following setups: 2u24-84:SPYCERNODE-2U24 + SPYCERNODE-5U84-EBD 2u24-8484:SPYCERNODE-2U24 + SPYCERNODE-5U84-EBD + SPYCERNODE-5U84-EBD
almost 4 years ago in ESS 0 Future consideration

Exlusion of Filesystem on Spectrum protect client application with specific to filesystem type like exclude.fs.jfs

Spectrum Protect client is the product. Currently Spectrum protect client software manages backup and restore of files/directories of large Enterprise servers. Spectrum Protect (SP) client has feature to exclude only NAS filesystem with the comman...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Future consideration

Spectrum Protect Snapshot support for VMAX

Spectrum Protect Snapshot supports VMAX with Dell EMC Solution Enabler 8.1. Current version is 9.2. Could you update the Rocket Device Adapter Packs in order to support the new versions of Solution Enabler ? Thanks.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Future consideration

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