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make comprestimator available as an SVC internal command

Please can you internalise the 'comprestimator' functionality as a command within the SVC
over 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Delivered

support hole punching

We're seeing requests for customers running Commvault that they need support for hole punching to free up space in already allocated files. Please support deallocating space in files trhough the FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE and FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE flags o...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Delivered

HUB scalability

This is a request to improve the parallelization of spoke data ingest and processing on hub servers. There appears to be a single-threaded component, or some sort of processing bottleneck.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Delivered

Improve performance in mmrestripe

Mmrestripe operation encounters slow performance in ESS tracked under PMR 85092-227-000. The action plan is to increase the pitWorkerThreadsPerNode value manually. This RFE is to improve the performance of restripe. The development team suggests t...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

SVC management GUI does not select the config node by default

When we open the SVC management GUI and go to the screen named “Download Support Package” (where we can view or create support logs), the GUI has pre-selected a view that shows a list of available files. Usually the SVC node that is selected for v...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Support for Ontap 9.5 with BA Client

There is no documentation for support of BA client backups of Ontap 9.5 on NetApp appliances. The highest mentioned is Ontap 9.3 supported bu 8.1.4. I have a customer that is about to migrate to a new data center and as part of this move replace t...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 2 Delivered

Support GPFS on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and future LTS releases

Support Ubuntu LTS releases in addition to Debian
over 10 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Multiple callhomes on a single device failure open new PMRs each alert

Title: Multiple callhomes on a single device failure open new PMRs each alertTCC Client Owner: Jason Robinson, TysonPriority: HighProblem description: Multiple callhomes on a single device failure open new PMRs each alert. The process should assoc...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

CSM Operator should have access to Scheduled tasks

Most of the activities, we have created Scheduled tasks for Operators to start/stop whenever the need arises. Like for DRs, we have 3 sessions which are dependent on each other and we created scheduled tasks. But current CSM Operator role cannot p...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Changing SGC behavior when pool run out of space

Customer run SGC session on DR site (Global Mirror target site).When extend pool used for SGC Capacity reached 90% usage the system starts to roll off SGC backups on VOLUME BASE to free up space. In this situation ALL backups failed and not recove...
over 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Delivered

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