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Document Spectrum Fusion's CPU,Memory, and PV req's for each version

Other IBM Storage software products are publicly documenting their CPU, memory, and persistent volume sizing information. Spectrum Fusion should do this too. An example is table 2 and table 3 in this SPP support page. https://www.ibm.com/support/p...
over 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 4 Delivered

Automated Backup of TS7700 database

Provide a way to allow customers to backup/restore the database and metadata for each VTS cluster within the grid. This needs to be a process that can be on demand or automated. This may be a duplicate of RFE 79372 but not sure if it included all ...
over 3 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

User Exit to be utilized for application consistency volume copies

In order to have application-consistent volume copies, the product should provide a user exit before and after a task for FlashCopy and/or Remote Copy in conjunction with IBM Spectrum Virtualize. Those user exits must provide a facility to handle ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Ability to supress IWNR4005I messages in CSM console.

In CSM 6.3.4 message IWNR4005I is logged to the console for every logon to the CSM webui. Please consider allowing the suppression of the message for particluar users or entirely.
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Display both the main (DKC) microcode and the (SVP) microcode on Hitachi storage arrays

Currently, storage insights only displays the svp firmware levels, which is not the firmware level of the array itself. It would be best to display both levels of firmware as they are two separate levels that normally are not the same.
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Customer is asking if storage insights can track in it's log which users are accessing what data.

Required from an audit perspective to determine which employees are accessing SI and reviewing data collected by SI.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

Disable the Spectrum Scale GUI service without disabling the REST API service in Spectrum Scale

Bank of America is a tier 1 segment client that adopts lots of IBM technologies. At this moment, they are adopting Openshift and making its way into the corporation. To feed this openshift environment, the containers need to access a shared filesy...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

CSM to be Qualified for Use with Windows Server 2022

It would be nice to have CSM be qualified with Windows Server 2022 so as we are deploying new instances of it, we have them future-proofed.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Delivered

Support for more host site WWPN per I/O Group for IBM San Volume Controller

The customer has exhausted the WWPN hot ports inside an IBM SVC I/O Group, which his 2048. We want to know if it would be feasible to increase this value or if this is something that is technically not feasible.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC - Need to enable DNS support for LDAP server configuration

We use LDAP to manage authentication to our SVC arrays. The SVC however does not support using DNS names to define the LDAP server, we are forced to specify IP addresses for 2-3 LDAP servers. This is a problem as in our dynamic environment, the IP...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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