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Introduce Support for fully qualified DNS names - IBM Remote Support

We have been trying to implement remote support access for UPS in order to enable remote code loads for their FlashSystem 9200 storage systems. UPS's firewall team has a policy that they will only use fully qualified DNS names in their proxy serve...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize and OIDC/OAuth2 authentication

UPS has begun to purchase FlashSystems storage. To date, they have deployed five FS9200 systems across two data centers, and we have an opportunity to sell more FS9200 storage systems moving to 2022. UPS recently informed us that they are adopting...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Enhance security for remote Spectrum Scale mounts

When a Spectrum Scale filesystem is mounted to a client (or a remote cluster), the entire filesystem is available. This is a potential security concern.
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Delivered

Create flashcopy from "Volumes by hosts and clusters" view

It would be great to be able to create flashcopies from other places than "Copy services", like "Volumes" or "Volumes by hosts and clusters". Today, you need to first check what volumes are attached to a specific host or cluster and then go into "...
12 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

CSM to Provide Capability to Preserve Data in a 5th Copy (Secondary) after Changing the Primary SRC in a 4-Site MM/GM Session

Currently, we are setting up to use the 3-Site GM/GC Session which helps us with maintaining the 3rd copy (LCP) and avoiding Full-Push exposure when region switching (PRESS) between Data Centers. We would like to see if there was a way to provide ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Enhanced Stretch Cluster / Site Awares for Servers

With SVC 7.2 the streched cluster is now site aware, but this is not reflected int the host connections. What is needed is a site awareness for the servers, so that SVC knows which host connection is in which location. Than SVC can use the ALUA pr...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC Hardware refresh (BFN)

SVC Hardware Refresh: more ports, 16 Gpbs, more Cache, more CPU, direct SAS storage attachment
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

REPLICATE NODE needs a DURATION option

REPLICATE NODE locks filespaces. If bandwidth to the target is impaired, or if the target's storage is slow, then replicate node can effectively hang, locking filespaces for days. This causes backups to hang or fail, and other daily administration...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

I would like to have an option to disable "host degraded" warning message when using Live Partition Mobility on Power.

Virtual Fibre Channel configuration typically have 2 x WWPN to enable LPAR Mobility if they are AIX. Normally you are preparing the infrastructure by defining both WWPNs as part of the host aliases in both the SAN and the SVC (V7000).This automati...
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SPP patches released should contain readme for changes and fixes included with patch level

A customer who was instructed to apply SPP patch 1 (287) inquired as to the fixes or changes within patch 1 and was not able to locate a readme file with a list of changes for these patches. This readme or list of documented changes will help a cu...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

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