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Multi-cluster Hyperswap for Spectrum Virtualize

Current Hyperswap implementation exists within a single Spectrum Virtualize cluster. An outage of the entire cluster is possible, thereby offering a lesser degree of availability
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SV PBR support for CSM

To push or force customers to move from Standard GM o GMCV to the new PBR where the CSM is exstesively implemented, it is mandatory that CSM will support the PBR as weel soon.
about 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Utilise RACF PassTickets for Host Connections from CSM on DS8K HMC to z/OS system.

Current and only available method for Host connection from the CSM residing on the DS8K HMC to the z/OS system requires authentication via a normal RACF defined userid and password on z/OS. However, customer password expiration policies dictate a ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Enable partial scans of directories including subdirectories instead of whole shares

A scan in Spectrum Discover currently scans the whole share. Given the following example scenario: We have a large share with 100.000+ of files Some directories are rather static whereas other directories see daily or weekly changes In order to sp...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Delivered

Ability to expand existing mdisk by adding a single disk

Allow an existing mdisk to be expanded.An existing mdisk RAID 5/6 or DRAID would be able to be expanded by adding a single disk.An existing mdisk RAID 10 would be able to be expanded by adding a pair of disks.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Delivered

start services after gpfs (filesystems) is ready using systemd

the current systemd units gpfs.service and <fs-mountpoint>.mount units can't be used to depend on (After/Required/.. systemd attributes) for other services. GPFS service is reporting itself as successfully started long before it actually com...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Delivered

Add number of mounts to REST GET DataCartridges response

With the new media lifecycle information provided in mount history report and via REST, clienst will also want to know the number of mounts for cartridges. The mount history report provides the mount count, the REST API doesn't. For automation pur...
10 months ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

IP quorum support double SAN switch failure.

The IP quorum on the Hyperswap solution creates a huge risks in the fact that you can't fail double SAN switches on a single site. Doing this will cause the complete solution to reboot and will cause downtime on both your sites. We would like IBM ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize needs a replication Wizard which advises on ALL parameters

Replication setup can be highly impactful if done incorrectly. Most mistakes revolve around either 1) Defaults such as buffer size, partnership bandwidth, and gm link tolerance. 2) Improper FCIP Switch Configuration
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Better hardware alerting \ callhome

In SVCs we see certain scenarios where hardware issues especially on DIMMs do not call home and do not post any alert messages. Is is possible to get development to make the SVC alert us about these events?Example - PMR 10919,004,000Event log is c...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

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