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Flashsystem 7200 expansion enclosure NVME

The expansion enclosures of the flashsystem 7200 do not support NVME. All government agency procurement processes are requesting and we are taking a beating from Dell, Purestorage and Huawey. We need to fix this or we will no longer sell to govern...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multiple MGM sessions per LSS

Please allow us to split LSS device ranges into multiple MGM sessions. Devices on a LSS could still be contiguous per session, but would like to split those between sessions.
almost 4 years ago in IBM DS8000 2 Not under consideration

Multiple Flashcopies per volume set.

Allow multiple Flashcopies to be taken that aren't directly tied to a set of volumes at Flashcopy point and time. Take the Flashcopy and use space from the storage pool, allow for multiple copies to exist for each replication session.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Flashcopy - restart or reset Flashcopy to original date/time

Flashcopy currently is a one and done function. It would be useful to have the ability to start over or reset a Flashcopy to it's original point and time. For example take a flash copy on Day 1 at noon, run your DR exercise, application test, vend...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Backup of Shared VHDX and Shared VHDX in a set

would like the ability of backing up Hyper-V VM's using SPP when they are configured with Shared VHDX and/or Shared VHDX in a Set.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SPP - Sort lists / Provide user ability to sort

Lists in the user interface are not sorted: vSnap servers, VADP servers, SLAs when assigning an SLA to a VM, etc. All lists should be sorted by default and should also provide the user the ability to click any column to sort by that column.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Planned for future release

Make usage time series information available via the Spectrum Scale API

The Spectrum Scale Management GUI has time series information available for GPFS file systems and filesets. This information includes (but is not limited to) the change in block usage (i.e. how much space used) and change in inode usage. However t...
about 5 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

one Spectrum Scale GUI monitors multiple ESS clusters

PingAn deployed several ESS clusters in China/Beijing and China/Shanghai. So far, they have to login different GUI web to monitor different clusters. PingAn raised the request for one Spectrum Scale GUI to monitor multiple ESS clusters so that the...
over 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 2 Not under consideration

to extend the internal log retention period for error logs

Customer want to extend the internal log retention period for error logs in copy function. It will disappear in about an hour, but customer want us to keep it for at least one day.
about 5 years ago in IBM DS8000 0 Not under consideration

Design change to avoid deletion of Backup Data from a malicious hacker, mentally disturbed or very angry at his workplace

The following is a suggestion to ensure that Backup Data cannot be deleted by malicious hackers, internal Backup administrators who are very angry at their workplace or mentally disturbed. The proposal is to create a minimum of 5 Backup Admin Appr...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Future consideration

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