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Pagepool enhancements

Today, the pagepool value in GPFS is set once typically at install. However if the workloads change, the setting needs to be done by customer intervention. One example, the pagepool needs to be readjusted when there is not enough memory left for t...
about 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

new Spectrum Protect Client API to provide "QUERY OCCUPANCY" details + possibly "Q STGPOOL capacity details

Hi,The SPFS solution is a virtual filesystem that makes it possible to mount Spectrum Protect server storage directly on the server, so that it is possible to protect almost anydata with Spectrum Protect using normal file operations. SPFS uses Spe...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Not under consideration

VMotion DRS Support for Scale RDM NSD + Quorum Nodes

This IDEA is to support vMotion for NSD RDM nodes. VMware clients - vMotion DRS is enabled by default, used by all clients. To use Scale RDM with ESXi - vMotion is either enabled (automatic) or disabled (manual). To confirm disabled simply means ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Keep supporting TSM API (backup to TSM via BRMS on IBM i)

Please do not discontinue this support.
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

GPFS Client/Server Capable of AIX Live Update Function

Enhance GPFS code base to allow for a AIX 7.2 GPFS Client/Server to be capable of the AIX Live Update Function.
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Simplified descOnly support on virtual quorum node

We should support using VM internal partition for descOnly NSD. Should not require the complexity of raw device mapping for this simple functionality, that also doesn't have any risk of data loss. I asked on the internal General Parallel File Syst...
about 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Not under consideration

Hyperswap - estimator showing time running with failed communication

It would be nice to have command showing estimated time based on current and historical data transfer for which communication between sites can be broken till free space would be exhaused.
11 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

CNSA / CSI add support for Access Mode ROX (ReadOnlyMany)

There are UseCases where Data should be shared between PODs or among different Clusters. To protect Data and prevent inconsistency it would be beneficial to enforce a ReadOnly Mode at OpenShift PV Level. Currently, ReadOnly can only be set in the ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Not under consideration

Backup data from ESX host without vcenter

Spectrum Protect Plus requires vcenter in virtual machine backups.But not every customer has vCenter, their virtual environment only runs on the ESX host.In addition, many backup products can take backups from the ESX host without the need for vce...
about 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time

Enable Replication to start on backup completion rather than having to state a start time.
about 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 3 Not under consideration

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