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SVC Does not warn of logical path loss to hosts

SVC Logical Path Loss. The Storage Admins are not aware of a SVC Logical Path loss. The Storage Admin is reactive when this happens due to not being alerted of the issue. Unable to be proactive and when server losses sight of storage. If Storage i...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Add Support Hyper-V Fail-over cluster with Storage Spaces Direct running on Windows Server 2022 Datacente

Lots of our Microsoft customers use this combo.
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Not under consideration

Quality of Service with Service Level Objective

The storage already support QoS in terms of IOPS and Throughput and, I know, QoS is applicable to host, domain, pool, volume, and restricted combinations of these entities. This could be implemented in terms of "Group of Volumes", I mean, this gro...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

TS4500 multipath support for RoCE drives

TS4500 supports TS1160-E drives with RoCE enabled however multipath and path fail-over is not supported when using Ethernet devices. The library and lin_taped support multipath for FC, RoCE is supposed to allow leverage of Ethernet environment how...
over 3 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

Match field names in UI and REST API

In working with the REST API and spectrum discovers UI side-by-side,we've come across a couple of differences between the two. Specifically, for policy creation the UI requires a "Policy type", while the API requires and "action_id".Additionally, ...
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Planned for future release

CSM TOCHECK ON HDS HYPERSWAP that a copy destination of 1 LCU does not come from more than 4 source LCUs

CSM team confirmed that per current design there is a check made by CSM that one source LCU has no more than 4 target, but there is not a check made into the opposite direction that a copy destination of 1 LCU does not come from more than 4 source...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

BA Client Support for MAC based on Apple Silicon CPUs

We have many MAC-users with new Apple Silicon CPUs inside. In client requirements https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apple-macintosh-client-requirements#Release%208.1 is noted "Apple silicon-based Macintosh, by using conversion mechanism Rosetta 2 ...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

update ffdc to gather more information

Please enhance "ffdc ALL" to gather all logfiles that are needed by IBM support and development.Currently there are several debug logs not included that require support staff to request with instructions.
over 3 years ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

SPP support for Cloud applications

Customers start asking for data protection of cloud applications to a larger extent.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

VDisk Mirror monitoring events

Customer is requesting the addition of events for situations when SVC cannot update a vdiskcopy of a mirrored vdisk anymore. Furthermore TPC should capture and ad a constraint for those events, so that an admin can look at a constraint violation r...
over 13 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

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