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Tiring by occupancy

Add the ability to define tiring rule, that takes node occupancy into account.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Fusion HCI Regional DR with Scale protocol instead of NFSv3

Using NFSv3 across WAN links can be impossible when customers are using IP renaming technology (via VIP and WIPs). The hard dependency on NFSv3 for AFM-DR (regional DR) has been lifted by the Scale team as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 0 Under review

Request to forcibly disconnect multiple TS7760s from the grid by command operation.

The customer is requested to be able to forcibly disconnect multiple TS7760s from the grid by command operation.
over 5 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Reclaim process improvement

Every week, our team needs to export tape to an offline vault.Our use case involves having a large # of tapes that are not fully utilized.Thus, we like to consolidate these tapes into a few tape (as few as possible) before exporting them to offlin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Not under consideration

Pre-occupy system resource for GPFS on nodes

Since GPFS is so critical, any standard way (from GPFS engineering or support) to configure GPFS on each node (mgmt., NSD, FPO and clients) to pre-occupy certain amount of memory and no other processes can use. I know that RHEL cgroup may be a goo...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

Migration from CPS

Provide capability for customers to move from legacy CPS hardware to fusion
almost 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 2 Not under consideration

Requesting that customer system name be included in Call Homes for ESS and IBM Storage products.

It has been noted that ESS Call Home cases (inclusive of other IBM Storage as well) do not have the name of the system in the cases description. We are requesting that this change so that system names are included in the call home for the CSP case...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 0 Future consideration

Hyper-V Cloud Backup

Here is my requirement for hyper-v cloud backup and restore. FYI: Net Backup have all these features. 1)      Simultaneous Guest backups on Cluster Shared Volume.2)      Follows a Guest around the ...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 5 Not under consideration

Optimized backup support for deduplicated windows server file systems

TSM client cannot deal with natively deduplicated windows filesystems, it is only able to handle deduplicated data efficiently through image backups.The problem is that image backups are not incremental, they are huge and take too long to be viabl...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 3 Not under consideration

Virgina Tech: Allow/deny lists for APIs. IBM COS in our installation lives on a campus network with thousands of untrusted users. Narrowing the scope of networks that can access the manager and data APIs would be helpful in keeping the threat posed by untrusted users accessing an API to a minimum.

Allowing creation of allow/deny lists for access to the manager API and data API, in addition to the included controls on IPs allowed to access vaults, and our own two factor solution for authenticating users would be helpful.
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Object Storage System 0 Submitted