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Dynamic RAID / Declustered RAID for Next DS8880

Distributed RAID or Declustered RAID or Dynamic RAID is especially popular with RAID-6 (what is now a default), and larger drive capacities.With larger drive capacities, the rebuild times in general grow a lot. Now this Distributed RAID not only d...
over 7 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Recommision node / reverting decommission node command

Implementing a recommission node command to stop the decommission node process without restoring database.
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

FlashDrive - Allowing RCL to continue, rather than halt to perform repair (fail drive/replacement) before continuing.

This would benefit tremendously as a failure then requires coordination and scheduling to complete, which usually puts us outside our scheduled maintenance window with the potential of not getting another window at that time.
about 2 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Not under consideration

GPFS supports the dirsync mount option

Our bussinuss architure is like FuseClient --> FileServer(GPFS NativeClient)-->GPFS. IBM GPFS does not support dirsync mount option in Linux. GPFS Native Client will save the dir meta changes(create/mknod/link/unlink/rename...) in cache. The...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

nsdInlineWriteMax >8K

Dear developers Please enable feature nsdInlineWriteMax >8K for version 5.0.1.x with RDMA enabled. We are using it for small files writing. It's working for version 4.2.3.x Regards Alexander
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Support for RoW on snapshots

Redirect on Write (RoW) is a less space consuming option for snapshots (at potential expense of more workload required for deletions).
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Allow VDI timeout to be user controlled (SP for MSSQL, legacy backups)

When using Spectrum Protect's data protection for MSSQL (legacy backups), there is a hardcoded timeout limit for the TDP to wait for the availability of the VDI. Currently this is set to 60 seconds, and can only be observed by tracing the TDP oper...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Databases 1 Future consideration

Enable Aspera for Spectrum Protect on Power Linux server

The customer has ISP on Power AIX server and want to enhance BCP between two sites with low bandwidth.I understand that Linux on IA server is supported.But this customer want to get end to end support from IBM.And we also want to exclude competito...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

SPP 3.rd recovery

Customer wants a third site for recovery. They are planning for a 3rd site recovery site to start up the workload from backup. Today we can recover SPP catalog from vsnaps. And the vsnaps can store data as archive to OSSM/S3/SP (this will act as s...
about 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

snapdiff AIX

Please re-add snapdiff functionality to the AIX dsmc. This exists in 7.1 but was dropped in 8.1.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Not under consideration

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