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Client Deploy should not break 100% if one single server fails package prepare. Failure causes should show up in the GUI. Documentation should show troubleshooting details.

If you have multiple spectrum protect servers which are replicating, and then you enable client deploy,then if any one of the deploy targets has an error, such as a replica server that was offline,and then if you have daily replication which pushe...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

Improve ACL management in Spectrum Scale

Currently, ACL management in Scale is overly difficult. For instance, the mmputacl command requires the entire ACL to be reapplied, rather than just having the ability to add, delete, or modify existing entries. Additionally, inheritance does not ...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

Resources > Hosts view does not show the Health Summary status table

The Hosts view (Resources > Hosts) does not show the Health Summary status table at the top of the page, next to the device image. In comparison, reviewing all the other Resource views, they all have the Health Summary status table: - Resources...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Improved reporting to support daily operations

Customers have requested a better way to report and manage space within a pool. The example given was:It is very difficult to work out how much space a snapshot or a series of snapshots are consuming in a pool with IBM storage, other vendors make ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Future consideration

The GUI should work with multiple proxies (Proxy-HA)

The support of several proxy servers (proxy-HA) is a widely used method throughout the routeClient -> Hardware Loadbalancer -> Proxy server -> Loadbalancer -> GUI-HA to ensure reliability.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Future consideration

Allow to ignore out_of_memory health issues

We have users running memory-intensive research programs that regularly trigger out_of_memory situations. These clear up pretty quickly. However, the system monitor (mmsysmon) retain the out_of_memory information until the affected host reboots. A...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Future consideration

Add Host Connections Column to Block Storage Systems

Add the number of Host Connections as an available column in the Storage Systems table view. We already have Pools, Volumes, Drives, Remote Connections, etc, but we're missing the number of Hosts.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Support for EMC PowerMax storage systems

Add support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage systems.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 0 Future consideration

add a NetApp Snapshot based backup and restore functionality to SPP

Addition of a function to secure NetApp file server with SPP on vSnap server. This should be done on the basis of NetApp snapshots. The feature should be able to replace the current Spectrum Protect feature for NetApp data protection at the file l...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Future consideration

In the Future, adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 based on PCIe 6 or CXL 4.0 based on PCIe 7 to the Spectrum Scale to integrate it with Nvidia DGX ( when it enabled the CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0

This is a necessary idea to develop a new version of Basic POD or SuperPOD which can use Nvidia DGX, Nvidia DPUs, Intel IPU, Intel FPGA , Xilinx FPGA and other CXL enabled Accelerators. We can use this super POD for advanced Cyber security solutio...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

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