IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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Increase Max Drives per Cluster

Maximum drive limits need to be increased per cluster, to 4224 per clustered system.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Let Spectrum Protect Shapshot Support the SQL Server 2008 SP1

The customer want to construct the online backup of SQL server.Hypervisor is HyperV (Windows 2012) and SQL Server is 2008 SP1.The customer expect the Spectrum Protect Snapshot make it.However, Spectrum Protect Snapshot support not SQL Server 2008S...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Delivered

tsmdiskperf.pl doesn't work on RHEL7

I downloaded the latest blueprint scripts (v2.3) to get the tsmdiskperf.pl script I ran this on a RHEL6 server and got valid results. However running it on my RHEL7 server gave zero results. The problem appears to be that the script cannot match t...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Spectrum Scale should easily detect when only a single usable copy of any piece of data remains.

Spectrum Scale allows users to define multiple replicas of any portions of file systems. Upon disk failure, restriping allows replicated data to be replaced on other working local storage. Quality of service lets administrators regulate system res...
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

SVC upgrades with internal SSDs can stall or require manual intervention

In a SVC CG8 cluster, there is a potential for an upgrade to stall if there is Raid1 or Raid10 array built from the internal SSDs. If the partner node upgrade starts before array is synchronized, the upgrade will be stalled and a manual upgrade wi...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Enable opt-in flush-on-close feature in GPFS

Provide a mechanism by which a GPFS client may opt-in to enable implicit flush whenever close is called on a file opened for writing. This provides some additional safety against mmfsd crashes and node crashes impacting data which users believe wa...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Offload restore

There us already a function for offload backup. This works great. I would very much like a offload restore (not lanfree). Data would flow from tsm server to a offload host on dedicated luns. Once complete, the luns would be dismounted from the off...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Delivered

Generate dpa_heatxxx-file without having EasyTier License activated

System: Storwize V3700/V5000/V7000 EasyTier and Storage Advisory ToolActor: Customers who want to calculate the IO by the Storage Advisory Tool to judge how to utilize SSD drives for EasyTier. Currently customers who want to decide whether or not ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

iSCSI hosts supported with HyperSwap

HyperSwap is available for use with the SAN Volume Controller, Storwize V7000, and Storwize V5000 hardware platforms. However, Hyperswap as clustering over iSCSI is not supported.
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Support READ Only access for PPRC Secondary volumes

In ZDL solution design, a basic requirement is to read the DB2 active log from PPRC target volumes. Especially for the long leg MTPPRC secondary volumes can be accessed READ ONLY by another Sysplex.
about 9 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Delivered

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