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V7000 / SVC mdisk secure wipe

V7000 and SVC should have the ability to wipe (secure erase) unused extents in mdisks. This would require a CLI command to issue a wipe against unused extents using one or more commercially reasonable secure erase algorithms.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Comprhensive management tool for multiple Storwize V7000 systems

Need to enhance the management GUI for Storwize V7000 to manage multiple Storwize V7000 systems
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Volume in FF20 category

This RFE is to request a new message that will be sent from TS7700 to z/OS.It intends to alert the host about a logical volume damaged as soon as the TS7700 microcode detects the situation and insert the logical volume in FF20 category. For exampl...
over 8 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 1 Delivered

cloud storage support for HCP with TSM

Please consider adding support for Hitachi HCP cloud storage on TSM server 7.x going forward.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Delivered

ANS1360I message only in clientlog, but not in Servers actlog

following message in dsmsched.log: 11/23/2011 21:02:26 Normal File--> 47,610 \\server1\c$\xxx\file_name.pdfANS1360I Compressed Data Grew It is not possible to monitor this error automatically, because its only in clients error log. also it is a...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

Support for Cleversafe Locked Vault feature to provide retention conpliance

We have opportunities with National records and Archives Oman for a 100PB archive solution and with Ahli United Bank in Kuwait for a 1PB archive solution in both cases IBM's object storage Cleversafe is being proposed and we would like to include ...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Delivered

We have a customer who wants backup up Exchange-2013.

HiI am writing to you because the support has recommended it to me.We have a customer who wants backup up Exchange-2013.Unfortunately, I can understand that there is no BA/TDP clients to the version yetCan you then tell me if it in any way is poss...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Delivered

Recommend 4 GB extent size - V7000 & Spectrum Virtualize during DRP Pool Creation

By default the Extent size is being shown to use as 1 GB while creating Data Reduction Pools (DRP) on Storwize & Spectrum Virtualize products. By using 1 GB extent size, the physical usable cap is only 128 TB, and beyond that we can not use it.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support for multiple AD services on one GPFS/Scale cluster

Allowing support for more than one Active Directory service per GPFS cluster would be extremely helpful in those situations where we are serving customers who are trying to create a shared storage repository for multiple sub-groups (departments, r...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

When updating SVC firmware in Enhanced Stretch, monitor volume mirror states before continuing update

In an SVC enhanced stretched cluster environment. When updating the SVC firmware. The customer performed an automatic update. All volumes are mirrored and in sync.1st node got updated and waited 30 minutes, most of the volumes returned in sync dur...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

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