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Quality of Service with Service Level Objective

The storage already support QoS in terms of IOPS and Throughput and, I know, QoS is applicable to host, domain, pool, volume, and restricted combinations of these entities. This could be implemented in terms of "Group of Volumes", I mean, this gro...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Enable dsmreconcile to run on arbitrary HSM nodes

We are currently developing a large archive solution based on IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum Protect for Space Management. In the particular setup we make heavy use of the Multiserver functionality of ISP for Space Management for scalability ...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Future consideration

BA Client Support for MAC based on Apple Silicon CPUs

We have many MAC-users with new Apple Silicon CPUs inside. In client requirements https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apple-macintosh-client-requirements#Release%208.1 is noted "Apple silicon-based Macintosh, by using conversion mechanism Rosetta 2 ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

include a record in SPserver SUMMARY_EXTENDED for missed scheduled ( successful=no )

We need a single table to compute SLA , summary_extended seems to be the one to use. But we realized missed schedules are not included . they are in the events table.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

check if underlying file system is mounted when creating a NFS share

When a new NFS share is created, the mmnfs command should check if the underlying file system is mounted on all CES nodes and fail if this precondition is not fulfilled.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

tsmdlst for direct attached SCSI libraries/drives

Since ISP 8.1.1 the tsmdlst tool in only supporting HBA / SAN attached libraries and tape drives.Find explanation here:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?crawler=1&uid=swg1IT22703We are using several direct attached libraries and are pl...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

GPFS supports parameters to control the memory of pmcollector

Status: Excessive memory occupy
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

SIP & SC: allow wildcards in the exclude list for storage reclamation

Storage Insights for Spectrum Control environment: "Reclaim storage" is useful, but customers need more handle on the exclude list. Now they can exclude volumes from the reclaim storage list, but customer wants to exclude certain partial volume na...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Automatic ingest for new tapes

I want to load new tapes into I/O slots and have them automatically moved into available slots based on function (data tape or cleaning tape). Right now, at least one magazine must be fully removed to add new tapes.
over 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 3 Future consideration

qos support dio

qos support dio
over 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

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