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Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client

Testar compatibilidade versão 9.7.1.0 do Isilon OneFS NDMP com TSM Client com o Storage Protect 8.1.16 or posterior. Tivemos TS018215491 Quando vamos escolher o restore pela opção [ point in Time ] o mesmo da erro: ANS309E remote operation failed ...
27 days ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration

Background Processes not visible in SVC-GUI (Code Level 8.7.0.1)

Hello Team. A few weeks ago we upgraded one of our SVC's from code level 8.6.0.3 to 8.7.0.1. Since we are on 8.7.0.1 (also happened with code level 8.6.0.3) we are wondering why no background processes (such like vdisk mirroring, volume formatting...
about 2 months ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Under review

Interactive performance charts

My general approach to performance cases is to select a rough wide timeline, and then to zoom in on the time of interest. The time selection in SI is a bit fiddly and not always the best user experience, especially if you have to do it multiple ti...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Build a possibility to upgrade existing FCM4 arays created by <8.6.2 to the new functionality with ransomware detection

Many customer will install on LTS versions for stability and fast coming PTFs. We will now deliver FCM4 modules with better ransomware detection possibilities. But it will not possible to use this with arrays formatted <8.6.2 , what is a CD ver...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Support more than 15 remote clusters with fileset access control

Customer needs strict separation of filesets accessible on different compute clusters, and want to utilize RFAC to control what view each of the compute clusters has access to in the file system. Customer was then surprised when they hit the limit...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Future consideration

DS8900 SYSLOG does not log severity

Even though events can be sent to syslog, it is useless because it does not include the severity (information, warning, error), which makes it very hard/impossible to automate.
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

Support for Windows Containers hosted by Openshift Virtualization VM running in Fusion HCI

Windows containers today are supported by Windows Machine Config Operator on AWS, Azure, GCP, Nutanix and vSphere. Working with clients looking for Fusion HCI as the Openshift platform, this Idea requests Fusion HCI to support running Windows Cont...
3 months ago in Storage Fusion 1 Under review

Support Flexgroup volumes in containerpools

NDMP Backup of Netapp-Flexgroup should be supported to container pools. Flexvol is supported and working, but Flexgroup are denied because of different magic in the header (EA6C vs. EA6D).
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Under review

pseudo admin to administer and manage the box/users without access to destructive commands

We would like to have the ability to create a pseudo admin userid which has the ability access and manage all settings on the ds8ks and perform user account management but without all the other powerful options / dscli commands commonly used by th...
4 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Planned for future release

ACL support for Spectrum Scale file systems

Spectrum Protect does fully support Spectrum Scale filesystems. If special attributes of files in this file systems aremodified like setting or changing ACLs, on the next backup run thecomplete file will be backed up again, though only metadata wh...
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Future consideration