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eeadm migrate suport also just filename or directory

For testing purpose or to provide an easy interface to users, for urgent migrations. We would like that "eeadm migrate" is able to accept also filename or directory directly to migratethose files/directories. eeadm migrate <FILE|DIR>
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Archive 1 Delivered

Allow later kernel gpfs.gplbin to be installed without taking down GPFS

Kernel upgrades are done by installing the new kernel while the current systems is running. When the server is rebooted, it picks up the new kernel. The new level of gpfs.gplbin that matches that new kernel cannot be added while Scale is up, even ...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

include directories and symlinks and possibly device nodes

if we, Airbus understand correctly Spectrum Discover is currently working with files only, right? Are there plans to put directories and their metadata (owner, group, access rights, ...) into Spectrum Discover as well? I consider the following sea...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 2 Delivered

EasyTier Tiers and Drive Classification is Manual

In Spectrum Virtualize Tier Classification of managed backend storage devices is manual. This results in numerous seemingly random performance impacts as EasyTier functionality migrates data to and from mis-classifed drives.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Send auditentries and events to syslog for SVC

Today the SVC will only send events to remote syslog. We need to send every entry to the audit log to a remote syslog server.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support for multiple daemon networks

Currently GPFS has a major networking restriction which is (from the developer works site): When configuring a GPFS cluster you start by defining an IP address that can be used for all nodes to communicate. This is the IP address that you specify...
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

REST API Endpoints for Usage Feedback of Filesystems and Filesets

We are currently developing a self service portal for Spectrum Scale, mainly based on the REST API. We would like to feed back filesystem and fileset usages (used capacity and used inodes), like the GUI does already. However currently the REST API...
about 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Abiloty to backup Spectrum Protect Database to Cloud

With the movement to cloud based storage, Spectrum protect needs to be able to back up its database to cloud storage to allow local restore of the entire database for DR. This could be required where:1. Customer has single SP server, and no targer...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

date format in SP Operations center

Please add options to change date/time format in IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center.Now there is only US date/time format (am/pm)
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Delivered

Move automatic client deployment from DES to AES authentication

Currently automatic client deployment is only possible if the dsmserv option ALLOWDESAUTH is set to YES. Otherwise the client deployment will fail.Documented here - see Restrictions:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEQVQ_8.1.9/srv.r...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Delivered

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