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Increment RPM Release Number for ifix/efix RPM Releases

Increment RPM release number for ifix/efix RPM releases so they're differentiated by "rpm" and "yum", and thus not require the use of "yum reinstall" or "rpm --force -U" to install. Properly incremented release numbers will allow for a normal upgr...
about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

SVC automatic space reclamation

We need an automatic space reclamation for frontend LUNs which are presented by SVC to VMware .
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Provide easy to consume day 1 modifications for Openshift to allow large scale Spectrum Discover deployments

Attempting to install a Spectrum Discover v2.0.5 system into a newly installed Openshift v4.10 cluster does only allow "small" deployments. E.g. attempting to install a size 3 mln 9 system results in the following error message and a DB2U that has...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Delivered

Implement easy node selection for controlled deployment of Spectrum Discover in Openshift

Attempting to deploy Openshift with node labeling / node selection results in parts of the product being deployed on unlabeld nodes anyways. Also production cluster scaling will mandatory need node labeling / selection to scale out Spectrum Discov...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Delivered

Expand Volume size of a Global Mirror primary

I'd like to be able to expand the volume size of a Global Mirror primary without having to: 1) Delete the relationship.2) Increase the size of all the volumes. All volumes in a relationship must have the exact same size (virtual capacity).3) Re-cr...
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Install Spectrum Discover into non default Openshift namespace

Attempting to install Spectrum Discover into non default Openshift namespace results in a "hanging gui" install. All install steps from the knowledge center can be completed, but the system is unusable after. Please allow for non default Openshift...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Delivered

Immutable feature on Object storage

We would like to keep the backup data that we copied on cloud as immutable.This means that the data will remain indelible for the period we set.Thus, we can protect our data from attacks such as hackers who intentionally want to delete them.Spectr...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 4 Delivered

In Spectrum Scale with Spectrum Archive ES solution, customer want to know hwo many data are in disk and tapes

Customer attaches few x86 nodes into ESS cluster and enable Spectrum Archive EE in those x86 nodes to archive cold data from ESS tapes. Customer create few fileset to provide data service for their end uses in different department. The requirement...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Ability to hydrate volume group snapshots to existing volumes for subsequent days

Customer has come from A9000 to FS9500 and wanted to used Volume Group snapshots but found that he couldn't do subsequent rehydration onto known volumes so made it difficult to script nightly snapshots to perform backups on media server. We need t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Increase number of compressed volumes in an I/O group to beyond 200

Real-time Compression delivers great value to Storwize V7000 and SVC products. <br /><br />Currently the number of compressed volume copies is limited to 200 per I/O group. This limitation imposes challenges in the field with user...
about 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered