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V7000 QOS function to prioritize workload

The V7000 QOS function (I/O Governing) can limit the I/O's on a LUN. We need a functionality as I/O Priority Manager on DS8870 that can prioritize the I/O's on a LUN. Can we get this kind of function on the V7000?
over 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

CSM To Include the System and Path for any Alert Message About Paths

Please include the system and the path in any email notifications about paths. Also these messages should be logged to the console as well as being sent in email.
over 6 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Support Spectrum Protect for Space Management in Spectrum Scale 5.0 on Linux for System Z architectures

We need support of Spectrum Protect for space management (HSM) in Spectrum Scale 5.0 in Zlinux architectures.
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

REST API access to TS4500 drive display codes

REST API for TS4500 drive list to include tape drive display codes for enterprise drives. This could be limited to only be shown when the specific /v1/drives/<sn> URL endpoint is used, rather than listing them for all drives (/v1/drives) - t...
over 4 years ago in IBM TS4500 Tape Library 2 Not under consideration

Tape optimization recall termination improvement

The product has several recall types.Tape optimization recall(TOR) is one of them.Now you terminate a TOR, it waits to complete the current recall. It is important to implement a more granular TOR termination technique.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

FTP and HTTP CES support

Support FTP and HTTP access on CES protocol nodes.
over 8 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 4 Not under consideration

In the Future, adding Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 based on PCIe 6 or CXL 4.0 based on PCIe 7 to the Spectrum Scale to integrate it with Nvidia DGX ( when it enabled the CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0

This is a necessary idea to develop a new version of Basic POD or SuperPOD which can use Nvidia DGX, Nvidia DPUs, Intel IPU, Intel FPGA , Xilinx FPGA and other CXL enabled Accelerators. We can use this super POD for advanced Cyber security solutio...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 0 Future consideration

Enable changing local account passwords via RESTAPI

We have a security standard that requires passwords to be rotated every X days or after use use. CyberArk manages the passwords for us. In order for CyberArk to be able to manage a password we need a CLI or RESTAPI that can be called to invoke a p...
almost 2 years ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Future consideration

Consistent VDisk copy protection during ESC Incremental Resynch and/or Volume Migration

During volume migration and volume copy incremental synchronization in stretch cluster configurations, until the second copy is consistent again, the loss of the primary site will command restoring data from tape backup into the second site capaci...
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

DS8000 IP Replication Option

The Home Depot is moving to an IP over Ethernet only WAN. Their network team's direction is to eliminate FC-IP routers which will require storage arrays to be able to replicate natively over IP. This capability will be taken into consideration for...
almost 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

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