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Gen 3 Storwize V7000 shows theoretical maximum capacity, instead of real one

product_id 10140648FRU_part_number 01YM583These Flashcore modules installed in Gen 3 Storwize v7000 units show 3 kinds of capacity figures:- Capacity: This figure shows a fixed 20 TB value, which is a theoretical value, that CAN be achieved throug...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Data user that can only search, not create tags or policies

What need a data user role that is only able to search through metadata, but not able to define any tags (not even characteristic tags) or set up policies.
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Delivered

Resync an entire Remote copy consistency group

In the event of loss of consistency due to the loss of volumes (for whatever reason), it would be better to force the entire consistency group to resync rather than the current process of deleting and re-creating all of the relationships in the co...
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

DOD Certified Erasure tools

Would like a new tab under the settings for Erasure of pools / arrays that is DOD certified for use in Federal space and adheres to a configurable wipe method and select-able features or configurable run times.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Delivered

Report internal status of NSDs on NSD servers

When NSDs on an NSD server experience an I/O error GPFS appears to mark them as being in an error state, the end result being clients not sending I/O requests to that NSD server. When this happens the NSD reports it as OK via mmlsdisk and mmlsnsd....
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Add Cluster Definition to v9000 for grouping hosts or increase # of WWNs back to 512

Add Host Cluster Definition to v9000 for grouping hosts or increase # of WWNs per host for large clusters.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Account SE

System: Spectrum ScaleRefer the case ID TS002297333. Actor: User needing new feature for Recovery In customer's environment, there are 2 AD servers to have reliability when the one AD server get down.Spectrum scale(SS) can't get the bemefit of it ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Delivered

Allow GREP to work on the CLI

Allow the CLI to work with external tools like GREP without resorting to running it inside python or expect.
over 10 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

TSM FOR VE ( for vmware) option to exclude drives when performing Virtual Machine backups

Within tsm for VE , would need an option to exclude specific disks ( vmware esx vmdk ) .By exclude I mean ( do not backup the data in those containers ) but backup the metadata , so that they would be recreated during VM restore ( but empty )

RFE 95: Dedup on svc and v7000

Most of storage vendors at this time are able to dedup data on their storage array level, when we will be able to see the dedup running on the svc and v7000, ds8000...etc?
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered