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Spectrum Scale (ESS) AFM-DR Role Reversal Performance Enhancement

AFM (or AFM DR) uses the file handles (FH) for the replication. FH uniquely identifies the target path (DR) for the local file (primary). For NFS , NFSv3 file handle which is stored in the inode. NFSv3 FH can be directly used for the IO. When the ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Option to perform manual full backup of VMs

We need an option to override the incremental forever and force a (new) full backup of VMs.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

Server audit log for restore operations

In some scenarios it might be desirable, that restore operations for specific nodes can be logged - so that it later on is possible to do a traceback to identify a given account, that performed a restore of one or more objects on a client. The log...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Let me select what log I want to upload in Storage Insights

Request for new feature Or if this is already implemented , requesting to open up for general use ( demand is increasing for this … ) Customer created SNAP from SI and in parallel PMR got closed by SSR - so , SNAP never got uploaded to PMR and was...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Server and Storage agent support for SLES 12 Power (LE)

Currently the only officially supported Protect Server and Storage Agent on Power Linux Little Endian is RedHat. What about the customers with SLES 12 LE ?

Be able to replace defaul SSL certificate on the SVC / V7000

Government Security agencies are demanding that they be able to replace the SSL certificate within the SVC / V7000 with one generated by their departments.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

From CLI/RESTAPI be able to query setting on tape library

As a validation check we audit our estate daily looking for changes in configuration not following an agreed pattern. Can we please have a method via CLI or RESTAPI to query all the setting that can be set via the GUI Ideally I would like to get t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Create or Change CES Exports without restarting Ganesha

According to the ISS documentation, a change on a CES NFS Export, like adding an additional IP causes ISS to restart Ganesha on each CES Node. Since Ganesha also supports dynamically adding exports via DBUS, without causing restarts, we request th...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Spectrum Discover using Spectrum Protect

Hello, I request the 3 modifications below: 1) Modification of the metadata MgmtClass in Discover. We should not have 'DEFAULT' as a value for this metadata, but its real value.2) creation of a new metadata in Discover. This metadata called XXXXX ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Delivered

Metadata Slowness when list files in Spectrum Scale snapshot of an independent fileset with many dependent filesets. (fileset scaling)

Please refer to IBM Support Case ID: TS002244951 Listing of files in a Snapshot with 961 filesets takes about 3 min for the first time. The subseqent runs of ls -ltr command run much faster. In this case /ace/home is independent fileset with 961 d...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered