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FlashCopy Manager VMware In-Guest Support

VMWare In-Guest Support for FCM. Install, handle and use FCM in virtual machines which are attached to storage subsystems (SVC, ...) with full functionality as on physical machines.
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Forward audit logs/events to syslog server (user login/logout and failed logins).

Customer uses Splunk to capture and mine syslog events. Requesting to add login/logout/failed login events to syslog on FlashSystem A9000R.
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Enable SPLITLARGEO also during LAN-Free backups

The backups done using LAN-Free do not use the option SPLITLARGEO, so the files biggest that 10Gb are not fragmented, when using the same environment, but without LAN-Free, the backups are splitted on files less, or equal to 10G.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Not under consideration

Show warning for mismatching "local fc port mask" upon attempt to add nodes to an existing cluster

Attempt to add nodes to an existing system failed with the candidate nodes being stuck in "adding" forever. This was caused by the configured "local fc port mask", which restricted the inter-node I/O to certain FC port ids. There was no hint, erro...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Refresh support for HPE 3PAR/StorServ

Update current support for HPE 3PAR (StorServ) to support devices with newer firmware/SMI-S agents
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 1 Planned for future release

Allow Easytier to place data on any tier of storage

The customer would like to tell Easytier to place incoming data on any tier of storage, specifically in this case, tier 0. They pull in databases to their storage and want to quickly access them from Tier 0. This functionality is provided in compe...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Hyperswap: Choosing survival site

Need ability to specify site, that remain active in case of replication link is down (split brain).Customer strongly required to manually choose main site,
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Log failed commands in auditlog or syslog

We are increasingly working with applications that "talk" to the SVC (and FlashSystems). In case of problems, we try to find out which commands these applications used.Commands that have failed are not logged, while this can be important informati...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Functionality already exists

Complete list of client instrumentation categories

According manual "IBM Spectrum Protect Version 8.1.0 / Optimizing Performance" administrators can collect and analyse data for client performance problems. The table of client instrumentation categories that are tracked/timed is not complete (e.g....
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Need qualification of Ganesha NFS with Spectrum Scale for FileNet customers

FileNet Content Manager uses NFS to access Spectrum Scale to score document content. Customers can run FileNet Content Manager in a traditional environment or in a containerized environment. In the Containerized environment, Kubernetes provides a ...
about 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Not under consideration