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Enhance mmperfmon sensors to generate DF statistics also for .snapshots in Filesystem and filset structure

In the area of Cybercrime we are in preparation of using saveguarded snapshots in our scale based Storage Protect environment. Because of the usage of immutable snapshots we had no sensor that generate space utilisation statistics of snapshots in ...
10 months ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

mmrestripefs % complete metric is near useless

Current behavior------------------mmrestripefs (and mmdeldisk) displays a % complete metric while it is going. Unforunately, this seems to be tracking the % of the inode of the whole filesystem that it is currently working on. Deficiency of this--...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

SP Operation Center - Enhance View - Storage --> Tape Device

In the OperationsCenter gui in Storage --> Tape Devices the link to 'Libraries' on the top left is pointing to the same location as the upper link: Storage --> Tape Devices https://servername:11090/oc/gui#tapeIt would make more sense to poin...
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Enhanced possiblities for defining password policy in SPP

SPP does only allow to configure a minimum password length within the Global Preferences. Setting further options like: - minimum number of upper case characters- minimum number of lower case characters- minimum number of special characters- minim...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Operation Center Client deployment - Package refresh cycle not visible as process

The package refresh cycle is not visibile on the hub server as a process, so it can not be monitored or observed in any way. it is even not really possible to see if it is running or not. We need to have this as a normal process like all other ope...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center Client deployment - query state of update package deployment

We need to be able to query the state of client deployment package distribution to spoke server. So which spoke server has successfully received its deployment package and is ready to update its client nodes, which spoke server failed to receive i...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Operation Center Client deployment - be able to deploy packages with command

Currently the polling and distributing of client deployment packages occurs every morning at 08:00 on the OC server, it is not officially possible to start this manually. Also if started manually with the undocumented refresh pkg command the proce...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Dual authentication for TS7700 constructs

Many of my TS7700 customers are starting to tight up security to protect the environment from both internal and external attack. In the TS7700 grid environment, there is a risk that the TS7700 constructs, especially the MGMTCLAS constructs, can be...
over 4 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Allow acknowledging of host problems on Spectrum Scale GUI

System: Spectrum Scale GUIActor: Admins monitoring the system The GUI is our primary way of monitoring the health and performance of the system. When a worker node goes down, which is common in a large HPC system, the health of the filesystems sho...
over 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Moving/VMotioning a VM should reset the tagging automatically.

This is a manual process but SP4VE is touted as an enterprise solution, so this should be automatically addressed. We do NOT use the plugin and ARE using tagging. We have 2 ESX environments each associated with a separate TSM instance. When utiliz...
10 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration