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Spectrum Contol and Dell/EMC VPLEX

We would like to Spectrum Control to monitor Dell/EMC VPLEX. We use SC to monitor most of our IBM Storwize/SVC installations. We use performance monitor to look at performance statistics and array monitoring for alerting, reporting and billing. We...
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Control 2 Future consideration

CSM to include text of event in email subject for email notifications

It would be very helpful if the email notifications from CSM could include not just the event code, but the text of the event in the email subject.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Improper Session Management - Simultaneous Sessions

This issue is related to same user opening multiple sessions either with different browsers and different system. Ideally, the application should allow only one active session per user.
about 2 years ago in Storage Scale System 1 Needs more information

Remote Console - SVC

It is possible to have remote console access to the SVC engine - where there are remote sites, to be able to review if there is an issue during upgrade, or view boot process.
over 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Audit library checkl=barcode should be possible even if tapes are mounted

Audit library checklabel=barcode should be possible without dismounting all tape-drives.
about 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Not under consideration

Support for Spectrum Protect Container Storage Pools Greater Than 1PiB

Currently, container storage pools have a limit of 1PiB per Protect server. For backing up very large environments (such as Spectrum Scale), this can lead to a proliferation of Protect servers, increasing the complexity of the solution.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Bring lin_tape source into the Linux kernel

The lin_tape drivers are causing us trouble either when the OS kernel is being updated, or if the drivers need an update. Keeping a high patch level for security patches is very important on backup servers, since the backup servers generally have ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Dockers utilization for Spectrum Scale processes

Scale best practices recommends to have separate servers for Scale servers and Protocol Nodes. In ESS also is not supported to include Protocol Nodes inside the ESS nodes due to GNR resource contention. This implies to have almost four servers for...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 3 Not under consideration

GPFS+TSM+HSM: staging vs. migration priority

What we are looking for is a configuration based parameter what willbasically break out of the "transparency for the user" mode, and notperform any further recalling, period, if|when the file systemoccupancy is above a certain threshold (98%). We ...
almost 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

TS7700 Option to select any or all Cache Partitions to be Cache only

Within the TS7700T we have the option of create CP1 - CP7 (CP0 is cache only). When defining a new Cache Partition I would like to have the option of selecting if a Cache Partition is Cache w/tape or Cache Only. We would also like this option for ...
over 6 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Future consideration