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Add Spectrum Visualize internode cluster traffic to Spectrum Control and Storage Insights

There isn't a way in SC or SI to monitor this performance.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Multipile tags created via single REST API request

Currently, tags must be created one by one using a POST request to spectrum discover. Attempting to send a list of tags in JSON like: [ { "tag" : "test1" , "type" : "Characteristics" , "value" : "[ \" True \" , \" False \" ]" } , { "tag" : "test2"...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Future consideration

Change of srvmon directory to different path instead of instance path

Our instance home directory which is 20 GB in size is getting full as the hidden collection folder in srvmon directory is using up to 15 GB of the space in instance directory before it can get purged.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Alter SGC volume threshold percentage via DSCLI

Currently 85% is the default set in IBM DS8k for SGC volumes threshold. To modify this percentage and to get alerting much earlier, this can be done only by IBM DS8K support team by modifying structure csSfgContNotifThreshold. If the option is ava...
over 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Future consideration

Allow for bulk add of mmces addresses in node-affinity

We have found that for deployments of 16 or more CES nodes that node-affinity mode is the most predictive and stable, the challenge is in deployment time. In balanced mode all of the addresses can be deployed in 1-2 minutes. With 32 CES nodes runn...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Add a VM replication module (for BCP/BRP/DRP)

this new module would copy x vms towards another Vcenter. instead of configuring a copy towards a vsnap and define severals versions (retention), this new feature would copy vms toward another ESX, datastore (on another vcenter) with a SLA with re...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Log backup of SQL system databases

Log backup of SQL system databases should be supported in Spectrum Protect Plus
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

SPP support for Cloud applications

Customers start asking for data protection of cloud applications to a larger extent.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

check if underlying file system is mounted when creating a NFS share

When a new NFS share is created, the mmnfs command should check if the underlying file system is mounted on all CES nodes and fail if this precondition is not fulfilled.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enabling the NVMe over TCP/IP with 5G network connectivity

1- Adding Advanced functionalities with easy programming for storage operations. 2- Enabling Fast, Standard, Reliable and Remote Storage Area Networking.
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Future consideration