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Policy based purge of defunct nodes and data

Today, if you need to purge a node from the environment because it has been retired or no longer needed, one waits for the data t age through its retention policy, then delete fi (of any active data remaining) and then remove node. This process is...
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Delivered

SFP Tx/Rx values at SpecV/Storwize UI

For each Port in an SpecV or Backend Storage System like FS or Storwize it schould be visible which Tx/Rx Values the SFP has. At the moment these values are only visible for the IBM support and it takes a while to determine this as a source for an...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Add Cluster Definition to SVC for grouping hosts and managing SCSI ID

Ability to create a 'cluster' of hosts in SVC and map a lun to the cluster. SVC would then manage SCSI IDs for all the hosts defined for the 'cluster'.
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SKLM to Tape Library to use SSL(TLSv1.2) same as TS3200&TS4300

SKLM to Tape Library to use SSL(TLSv1.2) same as TS3200&TS4300. Please add support for SSL for SKLM to Library communications
over 5 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Delivered

IBM TS7700 should allow reinitialization of tapes

We have a large number of TS7700's spread across multiple data centers. Many of these have physical tape drives behind them. There are times where we need to move physical volumes between these VTS's and relabel them to a different volser range. W...
about 7 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Delivered

Support for Multi-Target GM Copies

This is around having single volumes use GM to do multi-target copies to two different sites. i.e. A to B and A to C (both async) simultaneously. [Cascaded A to B, then B to C both async would also be fine]. In Sametime session with Gail Spears, s...
almost 6 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

Make all drives visible to all spectrum archive servers

Right now we have to limit via Fiber channel zoning the visibility of drives to spectrum archive servers. We would like the possibility to configure visibility of all tape drives from all spectrum archive servers. When configuring spectrum archive...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Delivered

DS8 Create Volumes GUI from Host View Should Allow Space Efficient Volumes

From the DS8880 GUI, when we go to Create Volumes from a host in the Hosts or Volumes by Host screen, we cannot choose Space Efficient volumes when creating a volume. There is no option for it in the normal volume creation window and the Custom vo...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

EasyTier Behavior is not transparent enough

EasyTier behavior and optimal configurations are not explained very well and you cannot see EasyTier in action live from the GUI or CLI. This makes it difficult to understand
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize lacks node awareness

There is no intelligence around node restarts. If the other node in an IOgrp is restarting to recover for aforementioned error the Storwize will not wait for the restart to complete and carelessly restarts the secondary node before the first is fi...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

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