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Increase REST API ability above 2000 objects

Current REST API limitation is 2000 objects and above that API may experience a loss of service. Current Spectrum Virtualize/ SVC/ FlashSystems can provide up to 10,000 volumes, and in enterprise environments there will be multiple systems and can...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Increase Flashcopy memory limit

Increase the maximum Flashcopy memory limit beyond 2048MiB.
about 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

Inline/Realtime De-duplication

SVC can do compression today, but for other types of data deduplication is the better alternative, so SVC sould be anabled to do either function, and maybe reuse the ProtectTier code
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

DRP configuration limits are not high enough

Currently, the recommendations for DRPs are to use an extent size of 4GiB and a maximum size of 512TiB. The maximum number of DRPs per cluster is 4. With large, multi-petabyte storage systems and also with HyperSwap configurations, these limits ma...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

DS8K extent pool utilization should be collected with performance data instead of only during probe

We leverage ESE along with FlashCopy in our environment and it would be useful for us to monitor the extent usage rate to fine tune our capacity planning. Currently the extent pool physical allocation is only measured when the probe runs against t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

support nsd network checksums in non gnr environment

Support nsd network checksums in environments without ESS/GNR (see the settings mentioned in this thread https://www.mail-archive.com/gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org/msg02705.html).
over 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Contention on client on mutex BufDescCacheObjMutex when multiple local processes access same file

When Running DIII-D tests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIII-D_(tokamak) ) on Spectrum Scale we see when adding more clients contention on the refered mutex. Details on https://jazz07.rchland.ibm.com:21443/jazz/web/projects/GPFS#action=com.ibm.te...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

Spectrum Virtulize limits

Today there are limitations of Remote Copy consistency groups per system - 256.This limitation is not longer suitable for enterprise customers.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

EasyTier to stop hot writing when performance problem detected

Easy Tier should be able to detect when a performance problem is caused by an incorrectly labeled mdisk and back off hot writing.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Multi-socket TCPIP for gpfs clients

Customer has asked that we change the way GPFS clients connect to the server. Instead of single single stream to a single socket they would like to multi-stream TCPIP for gpfs clients, so they wouldn't be limited to a single socket (and in turn, l...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

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