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Speed up metadata scans by distributing scans to several scans agents

As far as we know Spectrum Discover in OpenShift currently uses one pod for the metadata scan (fetching owner, group, permissions, ...), the connmgr pod. The connmgr pod seems to communicate with Spectrum Discover via the Kafka protocol and with t...
about 2 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Delivered

Enhancement to SVC CLI: new wwpn list command

I'm looking for a cli command to list all wwpns (both online and offline) that are configured to host objects.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

FCmap : Maximum limit to increase from 5000 to 10000

FCmap : Maximum limit to increase from 5000 to 10000
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

V7k Should Not Keep Bothering Users to Add Systems to Storage Insights if the Systems are Already Managed in Storage Insights

Our V7000 devices which we already manage in Storage Insights keep popping up Suggested Tasks and mentioning on the Support Package page that we should look into starting managing the devices in Storage Insights. We have seen this at 7.8 and 8.3 c...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

SFP RX values on FC ports on SVC

one "response" during the 65148,662,706was that RX values were low in SFP's on the SVC node. and yet no errors seen anywhere in SAN switch, eventlog, or TPC for errors on SVC port. indeed was advised this should be corrected before any firmware up...
over 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SPP archive to on-prem COS

Archive to on-prem COS: Our team uses Spectrum Protect Plus for VMWare incremental backups to COS vaults without issue. In one policy, incremental backups are taken daily and kept for 7 days. The archive feature in any SPP policy only allows for a...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Delivered

add functionality to audit container command

If for some reason some containers in a directory stgdpool pool have become unavailable or readonly, audit container must be run. If there are many containers to run audit on there is no way of queing up the audit processes.I'd like a wait=yes fla...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Delivered

HTTP REST API for TS4500

TS4500 supports RESTful API available only by RoS (REST over SCSI). The itdt (IBM Tape Diagnostic) Tool on nodes which have access to the tape drive can access this RESTful API.It would be much more convenient (and state of the art) if the TS4500 ...
about 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 1 Delivered

Support for Mac El Capitan (OSX 10.11.x)

The latest Mac release will be installed on many if not all new Mac endpoint devices. Further, many existing devices currently running Mac Yosemite (OSX 10.10) will upgrade to this latest OS release shortly. We have over 1,000 Mac client accounts,...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Delivered

Enable changing local account passwords via CLI or RESTAPI

We have a security standard that requires passwords to be rotated every X days or after use use. CyberArk manages the passwords for us. In order for CyberArk to be able to manage a password we need a CLI or RESTAPI that can be called to invoke a p...
over 1 year ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

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