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Request for Possible improvement in SP4VE GUI

In the GUI via WEB of SP4VE, when you access to perform a restore, the different datastorages appear where each machine that we have in backup to be able to do restores is located inside. The problem is that there is no search engine to search for...
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 3 Functionality already exists

Automate Spectrum Scale AFM Role Reversal Process for Failover

Request to Automate the IBM Spectrum Scale Filesystem's AFM Role Reversal Process used during failover event.
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

To include support of remote CES Object Clusters

Currently, The Official Spectrum Scale Documentation states the following main points.• This setup(Remote Clusters) cannot be used for Object or iSCSI services.• The storage cluster must not have any protocol nodes (CES must be disabled). https://...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Storage Scale System BXi support in version 4 latest mid 2026

Customer invested heavily in BXi Network technology. Customer needs support and performance measurements with BXi to include further Storage Scale Systems in large HPC Deals
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

Configurable block size for tape

We have a tape library about 50km away from the managing SP server; connected over fibre. Due to the nature of the FC protocol for tape drives (strictly serial acknowledgement) and the latency, a single data stream gets limited to around 120MBps, ...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 3 Future consideration

Ability to delete volumes from vSnap storage.

The ability to empty or move data from existing storage disks and then delete the disks volumes from a vSnap server would make the process of changing the underlying storage environment much easier. If we want to change out an EOS/EOL storage arra...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

DS8 IBM i Volumes Should Include Modern Sizes in Dropdown

When creating IBM i volumes, the default size dropdown includes all the way from 8 GiB to 262.9 GiB, however with all of our modern IBM i environment, the minimum size we use for iASP at least is 477 GiB, which means that we always just have to ch...
over 1 year ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Parallel disk merging and VM Creation during multiple VM restore.

When we initiate multiple VM restore, we have observed that VM creation and disk merging is going in sequential manner. One VM is getting created at a time after disk merging process. Whereas if it is possible to perform parallel VM creation and d...
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Under review

Ability to replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP

Ability to Replicate all VSNAP backup data to a new VSNAP, not only new backups that happens after the replication is setup (as happen today).
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Minimize Upgrade time for Flash System canisters

Today upgrade of Flash System controller take around 20 minutes per canister.This means less performance , less ports that are in use , and put the customer in risk , in case the second canister have problem during the upgrade of the first canister.
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

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