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SVC - Multiple Thresholds

We like to see warnings on Pool usage but in a critical situation…a warning isn't enough. Today many warnings come through the system especially with Global Mirror….warning for pool space usage get lost easily. A warning with a higher criticality ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

multi-vmdk restore in parallel

multi-vmdk restore in parallel
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

create greater than 99 volumes in GUI simultaneously

Ability to create greater than 99 volumes simultaneously in the GUI. Current GUI interface is limited to 99, it would be useful to at least have 1500 simultaneous or better still the max current capable count of volumes.
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

TSM LAN-Free backup to Disk devices support

Need TSM support LAN-Free functions to backup data to disk devices.Formerly, TSM using SANergy to achive this , but now SANergy is end of market. We need a feasible solution for the Lan-Free functions to disk support
about 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Delivered

SVC/V7K Global Mirror with Change Volumes and TPC 5.1

Please add support for SVC/V7K Global Mirror with Change Volumes to TPC 5.1.
about 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Optionally don't show the alert 986020 regarding Thin-provisioned volumes space

The message of the event ID code 986020 is shown very often for Thin-provisioned volumes, and causes the event log sometimes to flood with a message that can be ignored. The client wants an option to prevent the message from being shown.
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

IO group distribution for creating new volumes in a cluster with several io groups

If you create a single vDisk in succession in a SVC cluster with four io groups, they will be distributed cleanly over the IO groups. But if you create many vDisk in one go they all end up in an IO group. There should be a switch to synonymous wit...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

FCM: Clone Oracle DB on ASM.

Many Oracle installations are running over ASM. The possibility to do a clone of this databases is necessary.
over 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Delivered

Tivoli TDP for ERP for Oracle: Support for RHEL 6

TDP for ERP (Oracle) should be enhanced to support installations running on RHEL 6.
over 12 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for ERP 7 Delivered

Prevent ESS reading /var/mmfs/etc/nsddevices file

Spectrum Scale uses a file called /var/mmfs/etc/nsddevices to determine the path names for disk devices to be used by Scale. This file is not supposed to exist on an ESS system. However, if present, it will be read. If present, it breaks the ESSs'...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

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