IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Need the semi promised disk drive upgrade utility for Storwize V7000

I am in ATS and am regularly being asked when we will have an automated way to upgrade all drive firmware on the SWV7K. We have customers run the upgradetest utility prior to doing software upgrades and it warns that drive firmware is not current ...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

vdisk_protection with Spectrum Protect Snapshot

The vdisk_protection_time and vdisk_protection_enabled, are two parameters provided in Spectrum Virtualize and Storwize to prevent accidental deletion and unmapping of a vdisk. Unfortunately, this vdisk_protection function is unusable if any autom...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize on-box performance graphs not granular enough

The on-box performance graphs on Spectrum Virtualize products do not provide enough granularity. In particular, they do not show sub-millisecond latencies and they only display data points every few seconds.
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Give sysadmin insight into the inner workings of the NSD server machinery, in particular the queue dynamics

Enhance mmdiag to provide visibility into NSD queues. Right now, the only way to look at the threads and queues on an NSD server is "mmfsadm dump NSD" - and this command will either hang or result in a server crash. This information is critical to...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

Increase Quorum Node MAximum limit from 8 to 9

Required for HSBC : Scale 5.1.x on Linux on x86. Stretch cluster across 3 x phys sites. Client has failure tolerence requirement for Scale stretch cluster to tolerate as follows: Scale must tolerate a single site failure AND a single quorum node f...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Metadata performance on a busy filesystem is poor

Spectrum Scale does not prioritize small I/O, notably metadata access, over large block I/O. This means that a busy filesystem, particularly one with many large blocks to transfer, suffers from poor metadata performance. The user experience is tha...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Delivered

Dynamic LUN Expansion on SVC when part of a Metro Mirror or FlashCopy relationship

We have a requirement to use dynamic LUN expansion on AIX which works well. However if the underlying SVC Volumes are part of a Metro Mirror or Flash Copy relationship, then the relationships have to be stopped and deleted in order to LUN expansio...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Export from Directory Containers

Export and Import is a vital function in TSM. Both for transfer node data between TSM servers and for Off-site and longterm storage of backup data. Directory-container pools are the latest and in many ways the best way to store local backup data i...
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

TSM for VE needs better VM selection/filtering mechanisms.

When creating a new backup schedule in the TSM for VE plugin in VMware (v 6.4.0.1), the user's options for selecting VM's to be backed up are severely limited. The first limitation is the view by host or datastore. If you want to backup particular...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

Renew Certificate for all clients

Now have many of our IBM Storage Protect Server been running for years and it is time to renew our certificate especially our self-signed version that many of our installations has been configured with. In the 8.1.20 Server version is it now possi...
12 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

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