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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

Move GUI suggested task pop-ups to another location

With the availability of code stream 8.2.1.x in the GUI suggested tasks have been introduced which are visible in the main GUI. (clipboard icon). But each time a storage admin logins the GUI these items are also visible as a sliding pop-up at the ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Warn user of active Flashcopy before shutting down I/O group

During a maintenance of a back plane replacement on I/O group 1, all volumes were moved to I/O group 0, caching I/O group was moved to I/O group 0. But FCmap remained on I/O group 1. This brought down source and target volumes with FCmaps. Expecta...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support of SVC stretched incremental snapshot by Spectrum Copy Data Management (SCDM)

According to SCDM documentation, ii should be able to create mirrored snapshot when using an SVC with Enhanced Streched Cluster. Unfortunately this is not yet supported/working when Incremental Snapshots are used.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

SVC Encryption

SVC should encrypt the data written to the backend and is possible also data mirrored between SVCs
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Increase number of Vdisks

Eg. 32.000 Volumes/Vdisks per SVC cluster
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

IMPORT an EXPORT on TAPE

In some cases, customers need to keep client nodes as they were on a monthly, or yearly basis.To meet this requirement, we use the EXPORT NODE command :EXPORT NODE node1,node2,…nodeXWhen access to exported data is requested, we use the IMPORT NODE...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Display iogrp memory settings in gui and make cmmvc messages helpful to the user

The set of errors preventing the user from defining the objects are relatively unhelpful in wording. For example: CMMVC5970E The Remote Copy relationship was not created because there is not enough memory. The feedback from the gui/cli does not of...
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Increment RPM Release Number for ifix/efix RPM Releases

Increment RPM release number for ifix/efix RPM releases so they're differentiated by "rpm" and "yum", and thus not require the use of "yum reinstall" or "rpm --force -U" to install. Properly incremented release numbers will allow for a normal upgr...
about 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Provide documentation for Logfile InventoryUpdate.csv contained in function "Export Library Logs"

It is possible to export the library logs from the starting page of the management interface. This contains also the file "InventoryUpdate.csv" which contains all changes to the inventory of the tapelibrary. This log is very useful when there are ...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Delivered

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