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make applydrivesoftware site-aware

'applydrivesoftware' should honour site-awareness, in particular in HyperSwap topologies and change its default "all in one shot" behaviour to a "paced site by site" one.
about 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Add an option to sendcloudcallhome to allow users to test that they will be able to get to new support IPs, before the old ones are removed.

There are occasional changes to the support ips ( for example: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6991259 ). It would be beneficial to be able to test connections to the new IPs before the old ones are removed. An option could be added to the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

mmbackup dry-run mode

The mmbackup command is intended for highly-scalable backups of IBM Spectrum Scale (SS) filesystems to one or more IBM Spectrum Protect (SP) servers using the SS policy engine to identify files and the SP client software to send them to SP. The co...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

ESS Call Home - include monitoring and alerting for all components

Customer uses ESS in a data lake project and wants to make sure that all critical and or redundant components of a ESS System are monitored and reported via callhome in case of a failure. It is essentially that the full redundancy of the system is...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Delivered

Expansion of volumes with a Metro Mirror relationship

Actually you need not only to stop a mirror relationship when you want to expand a volume, you have to delete it. That means that there´s a need for a "full synchronization after creation" which takes a lot of time in case of large volumes due to ...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 8 Delivered

Regional (asych) Disaster Recovery for with Fusion software

Regional (asych) Disaster Recovery for with Fusion software
about 2 years ago in Storage Fusion 9 Delivered

SVC is not aware of AIX LPM-capable secondary WWPNs, causing all AIX LPM-capable LPARs always seen as Degraded

SVC is currently not capable of differentiating between primary/active and secondary/passive WWPNs of AIX LPM-capable LPARs, causing host objects always to be seen as Degraded. Every virtual fcs adapter of an LPAR has 2 WWPNs, of which one is onli...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Syslog Server Security Enhancement

TS4500 currently support for syslog communication port 514, but port 6514 is required for TLS syslog communication.
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Delivered

Show a User-Defined Instance name at the top of every CSM GUI page

Many clients have multiple CSM instances in their environment for Active and Standby servers plus multiple instances of servers for different workloads or different storage systems. It can get confusing when an admin needs to manage systems runnin...
11 months ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

vVol/VASA Support without IBM Spectrum Control Base (& SVC)

A Customer with a very large SVC installation wants to have vVol/VASA Support without IBM Spectrum Control Base for his SVC environment: Handling & administration without many components
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

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