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Allow wildcard patterns for node names in tiering rules

Support the usage of wildcard pattern for node names in storage tiering rules.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Product requirements related to performance monitoring

1.Distinguish between creating and opening indicators at the VFS level 2.When multiple clusters mount and access storage, distinguish the read and write latency indicators of different clusters. 3.When multiple clusters mount and access storage, d...
8 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

extend number of independent filesets

For a file system used in a large research facility with a capacity beyond 20 PB, we would like to generate at least 5000 independent filesets for projects being active in processing and generating data. We expect initially a demand for 5000 indep...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Create customer-viewable "Storage Fusion IBM Service/Support Reference Guide"

The consensus of several IBM Storage Fusion HCI users and IBMers ( including Storage Fusion HCI HW Service Planning) is: A "Storage Fusion HCI / SW Support Reference Guide", similar to the external customer-facing IBM Elastic Storage Server Suppor...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 0 Functionality already exists

Add new statistics for internally generated operations that contribute to backend I/O

Add new statistics for internally generated operations that contribute to backend I/O.The new statistics should be reported for the mdisks by node.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

DRP Pool Metrics per vDisk -> Sizes and Savings

The vDisk display in DRP pools must match those of the legacy pools. Especially the size display and the savings have to be transparent. New functions like deduplication and compaction schould get their own metric as well.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

SPP re-catalog from vSnap content (consistency audit)

Ability for SPP server to populate/crosscheck its catalog information based on Vsnap content. Just like an audit to ensure that everything that is stored on Vsnap is known in the catalog, plus the ability to register images found on vSnap which wo...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect OneDrive Support

IBM Spectrum Protect need to be able to protect data on Microsoft OneDrive. Our competition can do this today and customers have started asking if we can do this or not.
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

Support COHESITY SmartFiles S3 Object Lock for IBM Storage Protect Container Storage Pools

It is a major Storage Protect customer request. This customer has a project to integrate COHESITY SmartFiles and wants to use it to host immutable backups. It should work as it is the case with Storage Protect on AWS Object Lock today.
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Column heading if " damadmc -COMMAdelimited"

am startingdsmadmc -TCPSERVERADDRESS=IP -tcpport=1500 -COMMAdelimited -id=MyID -password=(MyPassword) Is there a way to provide reasonable column header. I.e.Protect: TSMUNX04>q stat will provide next output ..... SrvName,,1500,On,Yes,2013.07.2...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

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