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DS8000 SafeGuarded Copy - Create backup delayed

OS clients: IBM i and ZIndustry: Banking, Insurance and health When the SGC run at the DR site, we need to suspend GM session for creating backup.Stopping GM session for 5 (five!) minute only for backup and 10 minute for overall SGC task - increas...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 1 Delivered

mirror storage pool

For one storage pool to be an exact replica of another pool and be equivalent in every way, to the extend that if one pool becomes unavailable all activity continues on the remaining pool, including write activity. This would also involve changing...
almost 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

Ability to hydrate volume group snapshots to existing volumes for subsequent days

Customer has come from A9000 to FS9500 and wanted to used Volume Group snapshots but found that he couldn't do subsequent rehydration onto known volumes so made it difficult to script nightly snapshots to perform backups on media server. We need t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Support needed on client side dedupliaction for NextStgPool when MaxSize is being used on first storage pool.

Support is needed for client deduplication not being disabled for the rest of the session, if an object from a client exceed the defined MaxSize on the first storage pool, and then is being backed up to the next storage pool (which might or might ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

mmbackup does not handle EXCLUDE.DIR rules preferentially over EXCLUDE rules

The TSM BA client dsmc by default includes everything in the backup domain (defaults to all local filesystems), optionally allowing one to exclude paths and even re-include paths that would by excluded by previous rules. There are two mechanisms f...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

multi network connections support (multirail)

Michael Daubman and Lisa visited CMA(China Meteorological Administration). in the meeting, CMA raised this requirement: they hope GPFS to provide the network connection fault tolerance. Linux bond doesn't help CMA because their clusters have two s...
almost 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

possibility to change the server or ip with mmkeyserv of the GKLM Server Definitions

There seems to be a Gap to reconfigure the gklm mmkeyserv server configuration on the scale cluster if there are changes in the IP or DNS-Names on the same GKLM-Servers. The only possible Solution to delete the current config and reestablish these...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

DNS names instead of IP addresses

The system currently limits our flexibility to change our environment. If a syslog server or a NTP server can only be specified by IP address and not by DNS name this limits my migration options. If the StorWize would accept DNS names instead of a...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

V7000 Performance Monitoring for EACH MDisk and Volume

V7000 Performance Monitoring should have selectable details and panels for EACH MDisk and Volume, in order to let users see different behaviour of each environment/host type connected to the SAN
over 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

SCSI UNMAP Support for SVC 7.7.1.6

Space reclamation is esstential for our Enterprise as space is rapidly consumed. The use of the SCSI UNMAP command is necessary to reclaim large amounts of space that has recently freed up by servers in the environment.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

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