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Hot spare node

Customers need more redundancy in case of a node failure, and since the SVC hardware is reasonable priced having 1 or 2 more nodes is an option.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

start services after gpfs (filesystems) is ready using systemd

the current systemd units gpfs.service and <fs-mountpoint>.mount units can't be used to depend on (After/Required/.. systemd attributes) for other services. GPFS service is reporting itself as successfully started long before it actually com...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 7 Delivered

Implement full LDAPS

We have a requirement from a client to implement all IBM tooling along with Spectrum Protect (8.1.2) via LDAPS. We have successfully proved the current form of integration with StartTLS but the client in question is a bank and has concerns around ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 3 Delivered

SNMP V3 support for SVC

Customers are requesting that SNMP be upgraded to V3.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC STAT Tool should show volume and pool names

Currently the IBM Storage Tier Advisor Tool does show volume IDs and pool ID instead of human readable names, In addition those IDs are shown in hex format which is nowhere used in the SVC CLI or GUI. The tools seems to be created/targeted at DS80...
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 7 Delivered

TS4500 implement for Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) / Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, users must utilize multifactor authentication in many systems today to prevent potential misuse and compromise of a system. For this and other customers security and related resiliency i...
about 2 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Unable to change the HOSTNAME in rsyslog

Customer is not able to change the hostname of the library for the rsyslog. Request is to have a GUI function for the customer to change this field within the database.
almost 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 3 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize needs a replication Wizard which advises on ALL parameters

Replication setup can be highly impactful if done incorrectly. Most mistakes revolve around either 1) Defaults such as buffer size, partnership bandwidth, and gm link tolerance. 2) Improper FCIP Switch Configuration
over 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TSM4VE - Easier include/exclude of harddisks for a VM and integration of that in graphical interfaces

Include/Exclude for VM harddisks is made within client option file only, hence the direct usage and visibility in any graphical interface is not given. The user cannot choose within the graphical interfaces which harddisks to include (i.e. during ...
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 4 Delivered

Customer wants to extend the time between node upgrades with the SVC

Customer had multiple servers go down during their last upgrade. They would like the time between node upgrades to be tunable instead of the standard 30 minutes in length. Ideally they feel that if they had more time they could complete the valida...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

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