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Allow acknowledging of host problems on Spectrum Scale GUI

System: Spectrum Scale GUIActor: Admins monitoring the system The GUI is our primary way of monitoring the health and performance of the system. When a worker node goes down, which is common in a large HPC system, the health of the filesystems sho...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

SP Operations Center Reports in Attached Format

SP Operations Center Reports in Attached Format
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Create 'Retention set on Tape' for SQL and DB2

Creating Retention sets on tape are only possible for TDP Vmware/Hyper-V and BAclient; we would like the capability to be extended to DB2 and SQL as well. ANR1017E UPDATE RETRULE: File space SQLREP\SQL02\meta\0000 that belongs to node SQL01N1_SQL ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Commands in FS7200 CLI needs more verbosity levels

In troubleshooting connections and logins, ie inside DNS, LDAP, Proxy, Call Home tests then cli does not give enough information. All the time snaps are needed and then look into those to troubleshoot.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Temporarily suspend deactivation and expiration of backup data.

We have received a number of customer requests, to temporarily suspend deactivation and deletion of backups due to retention policies. Often happens during and after ransomware attacks, where the customer have a temporary need for retaining deacti...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Enhance mmperfmon sensors to generate DF statistics also for .snapshots in Filesystem and filset structure

In the area of Cybercrime we are in preparation of using saveguarded snapshots in our scale based Storage Protect environment. Because of the usage of immutable snapshots we had no sensor that generate space utilisation statistics of snapshots in ...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Metro DR and Regional DR for Fusion SDS (Fusion Data Foundation) without external IBM Ceph dependency

Our customer Euro Information is a very large banking company. They are planning to deploy an OpenShift environment with their common requirements in terms of storage resilience using several datacenters. This means using Metro DR with synchronous...
over 1 year ago in Storage Fusion 2 Future consideration

Increase the published limts on stored OBJECTS for DAS/HPO (NooBaa)

The published limits of DAS/HPO do not meet the enterprise requirements of Millennium Partners. The client has requested the following improvements. The IBM Spectrum Scale DAS supports the following scaling options: Up to 10 TB single object size ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Moving/VMotioning a VM should reset the tagging automatically.

This is a manual process but SP4VE is touted as an enterprise solution, so this should be automatically addressed. We do NOT use the plugin and ARE using tagging. We have 2 ESX environments each associated with a separate TSM instance. When utiliz...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Snapshot directory to show valid creation date

When we do ls -l on the .snapshots directory from NFS client, or GPFS client.We see strange dates which are not related to the snapshots : he dates on the snapshots directories look strange. [root@ems4 @GMT-2023.12.26-02.00.55]# mmlssnapshot gpfsO...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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