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Spectrum Virtualize 8.4 increase visible size of RC group name in GUI Copy Services->Remote copy

In the SVC 8.4 GUI the remote copy consistency group name on the overview screen (copy services->remote copy) is limited to 11 characters which are then padded with multiple periods... (depending on the special characters used in the name) or t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Copy Service Alerting for missing/stale safeguarded copy session

CSM doesn't send any kind of notification for missing safeguared copy of a given vdisk.
over 2 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Delivered

Three-site replication

The ability to replicate a vdisk (using global- or metromirror) to multiple sites concurrently.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

NFS Ganesha server to support over 4TB user quota report.

User quota below 4TB report currect :$ quota -s Disk quotas for user ibm (uid 1000): Filesystem space quota limit grace files quota limit grace 10.155.7.115:/gpfs/gpfs0/ibm 18414M 4000G 0K 33 0 0 User quota over 4TB report this capacity which is...
about 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

SAML / SSO Authentication

Support SAML to further enhance security and ease of management in environments managing hundreds of devices, or requiring enhanced security mandates.
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SP4VE File Level REcovery AD Trusted relationship environment

Today when implementing File Level Recovery(FLR) there is requirement of having the Windows Mount Proxy in the same Active Directory as the target virtual machines (the one to be recovered). What we would like to have is the ability to leverage AD...
about 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Delivered

Forward Auditlog To Syslogserver

For security reason our systems in the data center have to send their auditlogmessages to centralized syslogservers.
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Storage Insights Should List Timestamps Consistently

I noticed that when we are looking on the Performance tab the time selection dropdowns are in 24 hour time but on the axis of the chart which is drawn, they are in 12-hour time. Sometimes the chart axis lists "AM/PM" but other times it does not.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Delivered

Spectrum Protect Node Replication - option to block DELETE BACKUP/ARCHIVE from replicating to target server

Add possibility to supress replicating "delete backup"/"delete archive" commands from node replication, possibly depending on setting "DISSIMILARPOLICIES" or "backdelete/archdelete=no for node on target server (possibly new parameter not to confus...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 0 Delivered

Allow a comment to be created/added/deleted to a node definition

Allow a comment to be attached to or removed from a node definition with the cluster.
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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