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Additional information needed about mmbackup jobs

The mmbackup command uses the Scale policy engine to determine what needs to be backed up. It should be possible to get additional information about the backup from the policy engine, including the amount of data to be backed up. This kind of info...
over 1 year ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

designate smtp server by name and not only ip address

Customer is forced to use ip addressing for the smtp server in SVC and in V9000. Customer has requested that we modify this to allow server name instead of just the ip address so that in case the customer changes the ip address of their smtp serve...
about 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Delivered

Re-enable host IO-group selection while adding a new host via the GUI for 8.4.0.x and up

Re-enable selection of IO-group during host creation in SVC code 8.4.x and up
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

RFE 74: Storwize support for DNS names rather than IP addresses

There are a number of network services e.g NTP SNMP, SMTP and LDAP which have to be configured with IP addresses.This is becoming an administrative overhead in large organisations where DNS is the source of the truth for all the other network serv...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 3 Delivered

AFM NFSv4 Support

We are seeing more and more mandates from customers in fed and commercial that require support for NFSv4 in order for products to be authorized onto the enclave. This include NIST mandates for federal customers and commercial compliance regulation...
almost 4 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Delivered

Select background colour in GUI

When working with several systems it would be nice to change background colour or banner colour.It would be easier to visually see what system you are working on.
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

SVC Unsuccessful logins

SVC sould be providing a statistic about unsuccessfull logins with the IP address and date. For example: Unsuccessful login attempt from 10.10.10.9 at 17:30 25th august 2013. Or 100x unsuccessful logging during [period of time] from 10.10.10.7
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Spectrum Virtualize Remote Replication RPO Monitoring, Reporting and Alerting

Majority of the storage environments managed by GTS include systems running Spectrum Virtualize. And remote replication is most commonly used functionality to provide DR/BC capabilities. Not tracking RPO would have a significant on the disaster re...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Delivered

Increase SVC Mirror and Sync Speed beyond 64 MB/Sec.

Increase SVC Mirror and Sync Speed beyond 64 MB / Sec., currently the maximum speed is set by a percentage option for each vDisk (from 91 to 100 means 64 MB/Sec.) but modern flash based backend storage systeme can do it much faster for a single vD...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Delivered

Enable mmapplypolicy function via REST-API

Client has one self-service REST-API based application developed for providing SMB/NFS shares to their clients. They have different storage pools, and their clients can define which tier they want the data to be stored, and also select over time t...
over 3 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 1 Delivered

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